And while this one wasn’t perfect, it certainly made me smile, laugh, and extremely happy. I like to feel as though I’m trapped in the pages along with all the other characters. It’s not enough to write a cheesy story that plays on the clichés of high school. I find, many times, that my favorite stories are those that I feel like I could have lived-IE, realistic fiction. I can’t say I fell head over heels for this like I had imagined or hoped I would, but there was just something so charming hidden deep within these pages. I couldn’t parallel park to save my life. We reached my car, which was a shameful distance from the curb and sticking into the street at a really awkward angle. So here I am, making time to write a review for a book that not only kept me sane with its understated simplicity, but with it’s all around alluring characters and smooth, albeit not what I expected at all, story-line. But I’m not one to stop because it’s simply difficult. It’s starting to bother me that I am losing my reviewing time- I find the moments when I write a review so cathartic, and to lose that has been devastating. I say this because I am having the hardest time lately, between work, home life, and my little fur babies, writing reviews.

While both underwhelming and absolutely perfect, this was exactly what I needed. It can hurt, it can make you fucking mad, but…it makes you feel something, you know?” It makes you feel all kinds of things, not just happy. “When you love something, you can’t be happy all the time, can you? Like, that’s why you love it. Pride and Prejudice meets Friday Night Lights in this contemporary novel about falling in love with the unexpected boy, with a new brother, and with yourself class and then into every other aspect of her life. It delivers Devon's cousin Foster, an unrepentant social outlier with a surprising talent for football, and the obnoxiously superior and maddeningly attractive star running back, Ezra, right where she doesn't want them first into her P.E. She's happy watching Friday night games from the bleachers, silently crushing on best friend Cas, and blissfully ignoring the future after high school.

Emma mills first and then