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Until Friday Night by Abbi Glines
4.0

▪︎▪︎▪︎The main characters:
•West Ashby - typical high school jock who is popular and is good at football. Grief stricken inside, however, as his dad slowly dies. No one else outside his home and the doctors know about it so he acts like everything is okay at school.

•Maggie Carlton - new girl in town, pretty and mute. She keeps silent after witnessing the murder of her mother by her father. She doesn't talk to anyone to protect herself from being asked about that night.

Side Characters:
•West Ashby's football buddies and bffs - pretty cool crowd. Not portrayed as the mean bunch like usual books.

•Rayleigh - West Ashby's ex-girlfriend. The "bitchy hoe" of the story.

▪︎▪︎▪︎The story:
West finally found someone to confide and let himself out to in the form of Maggie. He was the reason she talked for the first time after 2 years. And he gets to be the only one she talks to for a while. West grew attached to Maggie after telling her about his father and finding out how she also needed someone. They both understood the grief. In between all this, she ended up falling in love with him after just 3 weeks (roughly)!