My Life With the Walter Boys is Netflix's version of a show with a love triangle involving siblings - but how does the TV adaptation compare to the original book? Based on Ali Novak's book, My Life With the Walter Boys follows recently orphaned Jackie (Nikki Rodriguez), a teenage girl from Manhattan who relocates to rural Colorado after she is taken in by the Walters, a family of seven sons and a daughter. The basic story lines - including Jackie's separate connections with Cole (Noah LaLonde) and Alex (Ashby Gentry) - have remained the same from book to screen.