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A review by sfujii
First & Then by Emma Mills
3.0
I would give this 3.5 stars.
The story overall was cute, if expected. The characters were interesting and relatively complex. Though it was a bit hard to swallow that someone could kick their butt into high gear the fall of their senior year and still have hopes of getting into a top notch school - as was presented in this book.
I was most intrigued by the story between Foster and Devon and think it added an important note that balanced the saccharine sweetness of the star-football-player-falls-for-quiet-book-nerd trope.
I think that the summary of the book needs to be a bit more clear that there is a LOT of football involved in this book. I am not sure why I have such an aversion to this as a structure base for YA fiction, but I do. I just think that football is such a tired framework, and I'm over it. Maybe it's because I don't come from a football-centered place, but whatever the reason, just no.
The story overall was cute, if expected. The characters were interesting and relatively complex. Though it was a bit hard to swallow that someone could kick their butt into high gear the fall of their senior year and still have hopes of getting into a top notch school - as was presented in this book.
I was most intrigued by the story between Foster and Devon and think it added an important note that balanced the saccharine sweetness of the star-football-player-falls-for-quiet-book-nerd trope.
I think that the summary of the book needs to be a bit more clear that there is a LOT of football involved in this book. I am not sure why I have such an aversion to this as a structure base for YA fiction, but I do. I just think that football is such a tired framework, and I'm over it. Maybe it's because I don't come from a football-centered place, but whatever the reason, just no.