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Home Field Advantage
by Dahlia Adler
medium-paced
Thank you so much to NetGalley, Dahlia Adler & Wednesday Books for an advance copy of this book in exchanged for a honest review!
This will be published on June 7th.
Amber wants to be head cheerleader and will do whatever it takes to get that spot next year. One thing that she hasn't shared thinking it would jeopardize her chances at getting the position is that she is queer and into girls. A way that she covers this is by dating a football player Miguel Santiago who also has a secret of his own. He is a closeted player so they help each other out. Amber was never a fan of the decease student as he was black mailing Miguel and threatening to out him and was a homophobe.
Jack short for Jaclyn was recruited to be the quarterback after the school's former quarterback Robbie died. And because of this did not make things easy for her to make friends or even to get through the school day. Jack has a hard exterior and comes off as not so nice even to those like Amber who is nice to her. She is having a hard enough time with teammates who cannot accept that 1) a girl is on the team let alone quarterback and 2) that Robbie is gone.
Amber doesn't like how the football team and the cheerleaders are treating Jack. She knows that she doesn't deserve it especially because of how she knew Robbie was. She doesn't just want to help Jack fit in but also finds her insanely attractive. Jack also starts to develop feelings for Amber in return which makes things completed since she is not out at school.
I haven't read too many YA sapphic books but I thought this one was enjoyable! It had lots of football talk, high school culture, enemies to friends to lovers trope.
I love when books are told from two POVs so that was such a bonus. I really love the relationship that Amber and Jack built throughout the course of the book. It started off rocky between the two characters for good reason. Jack was an outsider and didn't know who they could trust.
One thing that I didn't like but it's just a personal preference are long chapters. I wish the POVs were broken into separate chappers. I think what is what initially turned me off when I started reading this because my kindle would show that I had 34 minutes to the next chapter. BUT once I started to get into the storyline, the chapters didn't feel as long.
This will be published on June 7th.
Amber wants to be head cheerleader and will do whatever it takes to get that spot next year. One thing that she hasn't shared thinking it would jeopardize her chances at getting the position is that she is queer and into girls. A way that she covers this is by dating a football player Miguel Santiago who also has a secret of his own. He is a closeted player so they help each other out. Amber was never a fan of the decease student as he was black mailing Miguel and threatening to out him and was a homophobe.
Jack short for Jaclyn was recruited to be the quarterback after the school's former quarterback Robbie died. And because of this did not make things easy for her to make friends or even to get through the school day. Jack has a hard exterior and comes off as not so nice even to those like Amber who is nice to her. She is having a hard enough time with teammates who cannot accept that 1) a girl is on the team let alone quarterback and 2) that Robbie is gone.
Amber doesn't like how the football team and the cheerleaders are treating Jack. She knows that she doesn't deserve it especially because of how she knew Robbie was. She doesn't just want to help Jack fit in but also finds her insanely attractive. Jack also starts to develop feelings for Amber in return which makes things completed since she is not out at school.
I haven't read too many YA sapphic books but I thought this one was enjoyable! It had lots of football talk, high school culture, enemies to friends to lovers trope.
I love when books are told from two POVs so that was such a bonus. I really love the relationship that Amber and Jack built throughout the course of the book. It started off rocky between the two characters for good reason. Jack was an outsider and didn't know who they could trust.
One thing that I didn't like but it's just a personal preference are long chapters. I wish the POVs were broken into separate chappers. I think what is what initially turned me off when I started reading this because my kindle would show that I had 34 minutes to the next chapter. BUT once I started to get into the storyline, the chapters didn't feel as long.