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A review by max_the_lesbrarian
Home Field Advantage by Dahlia Adler
5.0
Really 4.5 stars.
A fun twist on the classic cheerleader fighting to be cheer captain and star quarterback fall in love, happily ever after. Except the quarterback is brand new to the school (toootally not recruited *cough cough*) to replace the previous one and she's a girl named Jack, and wow, most of the school is absolutely not happy about either of two things. Our cheerleader (Amber) though makes it her mission to make people come around to the new QB that keeps getting touchdowns.
Overall, it was a really great book and I sped through it in a day or two. The dialog and a lot of the details felt really natural - sometime YA authors have trouble making teenagers actually sound and act like teenagers - and the enemies to reluctant allies to lovers between Jack and Amber was great.
And I will also note that I really loved Amber's mom, Miguel and some of the other side characters as well!
Many of the other side characters, though were pretty awful - fantastically written, just wow, pretty terrible people. Which brings me into my warning for the book: it gets pretty heavy and it takes a while for things to get brighter. While as a YA it easily could've veered into darker territory, but it was definitely not the light-hearted rom-com I was expecting, which is fine but I would've gone into this book with a different frame of mind if I knew.
Thank you so much to Netgalley and St. Martin's Press for the eARC in exchange for an honest review!
A fun twist on the classic cheerleader fighting to be cheer captain and star quarterback fall in love, happily ever after. Except the quarterback is brand new to the school (toootally not recruited *cough cough*) to replace the previous one and she's a girl named Jack, and wow, most of the school is absolutely not happy about either of two things. Our cheerleader (Amber) though makes it her mission to make people come around to the new QB that keeps getting touchdowns.
Overall, it was a really great book and I sped through it in a day or two. The dialog and a lot of the details felt really natural - sometime YA authors have trouble making teenagers actually sound and act like teenagers - and the enemies to reluctant allies to lovers between Jack and Amber was great.
And I will also note that I really loved Amber's mom, Miguel and some of the other side characters as well!
Many of the other side characters, though were pretty awful - fantastically written, just wow, pretty terrible people. Which brings me into my warning for the book: it gets pretty heavy and it takes a while for things to get brighter. While as a YA it easily could've veered into darker territory, but it was definitely not the light-hearted rom-com I was expecting, which is fine but I would've gone into this book with a different frame of mind if I knew.
Thank you so much to Netgalley and St. Martin's Press for the eARC in exchange for an honest review!