Release Date: August 25th 2015
Pages: 352
Age Range: Young Adult
Received from publisher for review
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…
I was pleasantly surprised by this book, I didn't expect it to be this good! First of all the main characters: they both had a life with lots of drama in it. Maggie in her past, West in the present, both involving their parents. This creates an amazing bond between the two. Slowly, they're helping each other find their way back.. I truly understood why Maggie stopped talking as the events in her past where truly traumatizing.
The book went back and forth between Maggie and West's POV and I found myself enjoying them both about the same.
This is the first novel by Abbi Glines I've read but I am sure to read the next book in this new series, this first book truly set the tone that this series might be just awesome!
