Maybe Not

Maybe Not is an interstitial novella within Colleen Hoover’s Maybe Someday series, which includes Maybe Someday (2014) and Maybe Now (2018). Maybe Someday focuses on the emotionally complex and musically driven romance between a music teacher named Sydney and a composer named Ridge, who is also Warren’s best friend and roommate. This novella serves as a complementary expansion of the Maybe Someday universe, offering insight into characters who played secondary roles in the main book but whose personalities and relationships were only briefly explored.

The central plot of Maybe Not revolves around Warren and Bridgette, two characters introduced in Maybe Someday as members of Ridge’s unconventional living arrangement. Warren, known for his playful, sometimes crude sense of humor, and Bridgette, characterized by her icy and antagonistic demeanor, engage in a volatile sexual relationship in Maybe Someday that largely serves as a counterpart to the more restrained, morally complicated romance of Ridge and Sydney; indeed, Bridgette herself is a largely comic figure in Maybe Someday, making the backstory that Maybe Not provides regarding Bridgette’s emotional guardedness a significant shift in

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