To everyone who knows him, West Ashby has always been that guy: the cocky, popular, too-handsome-for-his-own-good football god. But on the inside he's grief-stricken - his father is dying and he hasn't told anyone because he can't face the truth.
Now, as his pain grows unbearable, West finally decides he needs to talk to someone about his dad. So in the dark shadows of a party, he tells the one girl who doesn't speak everything he can't tell anyone else. West expected to feel relief, a flood of emotions - but what he didn't expect was for Maggie Carleton to reply. For her to reveal a pain even deeper than his own. And, for them to form a connection so strong that he couldn't ever let her go.
Now, as his pain grows unbearable, West finally decides he needs to talk to someone about his dad. So in the dark shadows of a party, he tells the one girl who doesn't speak everything he can't tell anyone else. West expected to feel relief, a flood of emotions - but what he didn't expect was for Maggie Carleton to reply. For her to reveal a pain even deeper than his own. And, for them to form a connection so strong that he couldn't ever let her go.
West Ashby is the guy everyone in his school wants to be, or wants to date. He's the king of assholes to some, but it's all just a front. Some of it anyway.
When Maggie comes to live with her aunt, and uncle, she's still recovering from a traumatic past, one that has left her mute, unable to communicate with others around her.
So when she is forced to go to a field party with her cousin who is the same age as her, she ends up hiding in the shadows, not wanting to get it anyones way. She already felt like she was imposing on her cousins life, so she wanted to stay out of sight.
After a run in that first night at a field party, Maggie can't keep her mind away from West and what was her first kiss.
But when she meets him at school she's confused to who is the real West. The one at school in front of everyone is a jerk, a womanizer, but the one he is when there is just them two is the nice, charming, broken West. He's the one she can't stop thinking about.
The story is beautifully written and such a change from Abbi's other work that it was refreshing to read.
Definitely one I'll be recommending. I don't usually pay £4.99 for an ebook, but I knew reading the blurb this book was going to be special and it was. It's one I'll be reading again in the future that's for sure.
5*
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