Book Review: UNTIL FRIDAY NIGHT by Abbi Glines

Until Friday Night (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…

My Review:

After three years I finally tracked this book down and read it. I love Abbi Glines's books and I've read books 2 and 3 in this series and loved them but I hadn't gotten to this one yet. 

Reading the next books in the series, I knew ultimately how this one would end up but it was a good beginning to this series and an introduction to the main core of male characters that will appear in the books to come. 

This book made me smile, it made me cry, it made my heart race with happiness and plunge with despair for Maggie and West. They're both characters that have been touched by tragedy and those tragedies bring them together initially as Maggie helps West cope. 

Overall, I'm glad I went back and caught up on this book and now I'm even more excited to read the 4th book in the series. The series overall is more YA friendly than the author's other books but it still has some steaminess that might be more appropriate for older teens but either way, it's a great read!

My Rating:

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5 of 5 Stars!