Saturday 9 January 2016

Jane Austen + Football? Who knew?!

First & Then by Emma Mills

First & ThenI snorted with laughter a few times.  I also found myself grinning foolishly at several parts.  I'm already contemplating when I can reread it.  Despite high school being a million years ago, why oh why are books that take place there oh so appealing?!  The description of "Pride and Prejudice" meets "Friday Night Lights" is actually pretty accurate and delightful.   Much book love.

Devon Tennyson wouldn't change a thing.  She's happy watching Friday night games from the bleachers, silently crushing on her best friend Cas, and blissfully ignoring the future after high school.  But the universe has other plans.  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. class and then into every other aspect of her life.


ARC provided by Raincoast Books


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