![]() His father is slowly dying of cancer and he's helpless against it. In a town where football is religion, West enjoys the adulation of the town. West Ashby is your typical high school jock. Her past was tragic and because of this, she doesn't speak to anyone. Until Friday Night follows the story of Maggie. The Vincent Boys was the series that got me started on Abbi's books and I have a soft spot for it. When I read the author's announcement on her website saying that this series would be like The Vincent Boys, I knew I wanted to read it. So this is pretty much standard Abbi Glines. ![]() But he never expected the quiet new girl to reply, to reveal a pain even deeper than his own-or for them to form a connection so strong that he couldn’t ever let her go… West expected that talking about his dad would bring some relief, or at least a flood of emotions he couldn’t control. So she stayed quiet, keeping her sorrow and her fractured heart hidden away.Īs West’s pain becomes too much to handle, he knows he needs to talk to someone about his father-so in the dark shadows of a post-game party, he opens up to the one girl who he knows won’t tell anyone else. Even the move to Lawton, Alabama, couldn’t draw Maggie back out. And after she told the police what happened, she stopped speaking and hasn’t spoken since. Two years ago, Maggie Carleton’s life fell apart when her father murdered her mother. But while West may be Big Man on Campus on the outside, on the inside he’s battling the grief that comes with watching his father slowly die of cancer. To everyone who knows him, West Ashby has always been that guy: the cocky, popular, way-too-handsome-for-his-own-good football god who led Lawton High to the state championships.
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