Until Friday Night by Abbi Glines

Until Friday Night (Field Party, #1)

by Abbi Glines

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.

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3 of 5 stars

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I thought I marked this as finished. I don't exactly remember when I finished it though. Overall an ok book. Wasn't a fan of how possessive West was. Typical cave-man like behavior. But at least Maggie called him out on it and wasn't ok with it, at least for a little while. Then everything seemed fine.

It was a little messed up for West only to use Maggie for his own needs. But hey, the insta-love took about a month to happen! So that's pretty good. I'm glad it took them a more reasonable time to develop feelings for each other.

This was a pretty sad book, lots of sad things happen in it, which are described in the blurb. So I guess it's not a spoiler.

I liked Maggie better then Blaire, who is apart of the Rosemary Beach series. Maggie had a pretty solid backbone, she didn't really let West push her around. I'm not 100% sure he saw the error of his ways with how over the top possessive he was, but that's typical of most NA/Abbi Glines books.

Another typical thing of NA/Glines books was how EVERY male character thought Maggie was THE MOST beautiful girl they had ever seen and wanted to get with her. And the girls, or at least, in this case, an ex of West/popular girl hated Maggie. They always see the new girl as a threat, which is so tiring. Why does it always have to be this way in NA/YA books? Give me something different!

I'll give the next book in the series a shot as I'm liking Glines YA stuff a lot better than the NA stuff. Especially the Rosemary Beach series which got disgustingly absurd after the Blaire/Rush series.

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