Publication Date: March 10, 2026
I know better than to pick up a book like No Place Like You right before bedtime. And yet here I am, after midnight, sitting in the perfect contentment of the beautiful love story between Fable and Theo. The combination of their lifelong friendship + Theo’s pining was EVERYTHING. I want to bottle up the feelings this book gave me and pull it back out on the hard days.
This story was tender and gentle in the best ways. Theo is the kind of book boyfriend we all die for! The family dynamics for both Fable and Theo flushed out the world in a beautiful way. There was just so much love and warmth in this story from start to finish and I want to live in that tenderness.
The tropes of this book were perfect, the micro-tropes were perfect, and literally everything else was perfect too. This book was an instant 5 star read for me and quickly jumped to one of my top reads of the year. Jillian Meadows absolutely crushed it, and I will be going back to read her other stories as soon as I can!
Thank you to Avon and Harper Voyager for the opportunity to read and review this book! I received a free advance copy of this book via NetGalley and am voluntarily leaving a review. All opinions expressed are my own.
natalie intihar 
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