Warren gets a story of his own here, and so does Bridgette, the flatmate he cannot stop provoking. Maybe Not is a short companion piece to Maybe Someday, lighter in tone than much of Colleen Hoover's list.
The novella runs on friction: two people who argue more easily than they admit to anything, a shared flat that forces proximity, and a slow reveal of what sits behind the hostility. Its length keeps the reading brisk, the humour is sharper than in the surrounding books, and the emotional turn near the end is handled with the same care.
Elements that stand out:
• A short companion novel centred on secondary characters
• Comic antagonism that shifts into something more serious
• Reads well straight after the main series instalment
• Part of Hoover's Maybe Someday sequence from Simon & Schuster
A good pick for Hoover completists and readers who enjoy shorter romance, available from Boipoka.