Series: Boys of Avix #1
Author: Meagan Brandy
Published March 26th 2024 by Bloom Books
Goodreads Synopsis
From USA Today bestselling author Meagan Brandy comes the viral TikTok sensation Say You Swear. When Arianna starts college, she's hopeful this will finally be the year she wins the heart of her brother's best friend. But things don't quite go as planned...and that's when she meets football star Noah.
Her brother's best friend broke her heart, but what happens when his new teammate wants to put it back together?
Arianna Johnson has been dreaming of what college life might bring, and it’s finally coming over the horizon as she and her friends plan one last beachside summer together. So much has changed over the years, but there’s always been one constant. The boy her heart returns to no matter where her imagination runs: her brother’s best friend, Chase.
This is the summer she’ll finally tell him how she feels. That it’s him. It’s always been him.
Until suddenly, it isn’t.
Ari’s heart is in splinters when she meets star quarterback Noah Riley. His friendship is exactly what she needs after Chase’s rejection, but from the start, Noah wants more. Even when their path is blurry, even when tragedy strikes, even when Ari doesn’t know her own heart, Noah will fight for the feelings he knows they both have…no matter what it might cost them.
They say first love lasts forever. Ari is about to find out if that’s really true.
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Review
I received an Advance Reader Copy from the publisher. This in no way impacted on my view.
Arianna Johnson has been looking forward to college so much, especially when her brother and all of their friends will be together. Spending one last summer at the beach house their parents bought for them, it's the perfect time to see whether her brother's best friend, Chase, loves her as much as she does him. He's always been the one for her, and one night on the beach seems to imply that he feels the same. But when he breaks her heart, she doesn't know what to do, and keeps the pain and heartbreak to herself. At least, until she meets the quarterback of the guys new football team, Noah Riley. Noah seems to see through her walls, and wants to know everything there is to know about her.
I think this book has been one of the most hyped NA romances recently, so grabbing my review copy was no hardship. I liked Ari, and her and Noah definitely had a romance and chemistry which was epic. It was a bit convoluted at times, and definitely overly dramatic, but also that added to the enjoyment of it all. I hated Chase from pretty much the first view pages, and the way he treated Ari was not on, at all. I'm glad that everyone eventually found out what he had done, but it could've come sooner, and lessened the amount of heartbreak that Ari and Noah had to face. There was so much potential in this book to make it 4.5-5 stars, but the plot twist was honestly one of the worst I've read in a long time, and I hated every second of the aftermath. Even so, there was so much drama and intrigue that I had to read it all in one sitting, and I probably will when the next book is released too. Definitely an over hyped book, but one that I couldn't put down.
Dates Read:
February 18, 2024
Rating
3 Stars
