Hall life is chaos, but one floor can feel like its own entire universe.

There's always someone borrowing your milk, someone having a crisis in the bathroom, someone making noodles at 2 a.m., and someone turning the hallway into their own personal comedy show. Privacy barely exists, everybody knows a little too much about everybody else, and the people living three doors down can start to feel more like family than the ones back home.

The Halls: Book Two follows the lives of a group of university students all living on the same floor of their student hall, where friendships form fast, tensions simmer, personalities clash, and no one gets to keep their mess entirely private for long.

With each chapter focusing on a different character, the novel builds a layered portrait of one shared floor and the people trying to survive it. As the perspective shifts, so does the story. The funny guy has depths no one expects. The quiet ones are carrying more than they let on. The confident ones are not always as sorted as they seem. Everyone is living in the same space, but each person is experiencing it differently.

That's the thing about hall life: everyone sees each other, but nobody sees everything.

Blending narrative chapters with diary entries, journal pages, recordings, and other personal logs, The Halls: Book Two gives readers both the public and private sides of its cast. The result is an intimate, character-driven story full of humour, awkwardness, loyalty, self-discovery, and the kind of emotional chaos that comes with being young and surrounded by other people who are just as lost as you are.

Warm, funny, heartfelt, and full of personality, The Halls: Book Two is about friendship, identity, found family, and the strange intensity of student life when your whole world exists on one floor.

For anyone who has ever lived in a hall, made a best friend in the middle of a disaster, fallen into other people's drama by accident, or laughed through something they probably should have cried about, this story will feel instantly familiar.

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