Until Friday Night (The Field Party #1) by Abbi Glines
Blurb: To everyone who knows him, West Ashby has always
been that guy: the cocky, popular, way-too-handsome-for-his-own-good football
god who led Lawton High to the state championships. But while West may be Big
Man on Campus on the outside, on the inside he’s battling the grief that comes
with watching his father slowly die of cancer.
Two years ago, Maggie Carleton’s life fell apart when her father murdered her mother. And after she told the police what happened, she stopped speaking and hasn’t spoken since. Even the move to Lawton, Alabama, couldn’t draw Maggie back out. So she stayed quiet, keeping her sorrow and her fractured heart hidden away.
As West’s pain becomes too much to handle, he knows he needs to talk to someone about his father—so in the dark shadows of a post-game party, he opens up to the one girl who he knows won’t tell anyone else.
West expected that talking about his dad would bring some relief, or at least a flood of emotions he couldn’t control. But he never expected the quiet new girl to reply, to reveal a pain even deeper than his own—or for them to form a connection so strong that he couldn’t ever let her go…
Two years ago, Maggie Carleton’s life fell apart when her father murdered her mother. And after she told the police what happened, she stopped speaking and hasn’t spoken since. Even the move to Lawton, Alabama, couldn’t draw Maggie back out. So she stayed quiet, keeping her sorrow and her fractured heart hidden away.
As West’s pain becomes too much to handle, he knows he needs to talk to someone about his father—so in the dark shadows of a post-game party, he opens up to the one girl who he knows won’t tell anyone else.
West expected that talking about his dad would bring some relief, or at least a flood of emotions he couldn’t control. But he never expected the quiet new girl to reply, to reveal a pain even deeper than his own—or for them to form a connection so strong that he couldn’t ever let her go…
My thoughts: This book was recommended to me by one
of my besties/co-blogger who has read multiple books by Abbi Glines. For what I
understand Abbi Glines has a way of making sequel to story that don’t have in
the same timeline but don’t focus on the same main characters so if you don’t
like book 1, you can read book 2 and it’s a completely different story. I was
completely drawn to this book when I found out one of the main characters
doesn’t speak anymore and now she has to move to a new town, new school and try
to fit in. Switching schools in the middle of high school is hard and scary
enough now add not speaking…makes life 100x harder. I loved how West and Maggie
came together and how their story evolved a lot that part of me wished the
sequel continued on with them.
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