Genre: Suspense Thriller
Publisher: Wednesday Books
Release Date: Feb. 22, 2022
Order Link: Amazon
3 Broken Hearts
Special thanks to Wednesday Books for an arc of this book.
A heartbreaking novel about finding your first love and what happens when it's over too soon. Ashley Schumacher’s Full Flight is about how first love shapes us—even after it’s gone.
Review:
Full Flight is the story of two young, struggling students recognizing something special in each other. Anna's the only freshman in the marching band and is struggling to keep up. When she's paired to perform a duet with Wesley Ryan, she's excited but also apprehensive. Wesley is the town troublemaker, the weird boy no one understands. And yet, when Wesley looks at Anna a smile breaks out on his face and Anna feels special. A strong friendship quickly incurs that leads to an insta-love situation. Thus when tragedy strikes, one of them has to learn how to move on under the burden of intense grief and loss.
Full Flight is an emotional young adult story that deals with issues like first love, peer pressure, loss and grief. The book is well written with characters that will steal your heart. I found the pace a bit slow with long descriptive passages on band protocol, etc., but overall it's a fast read. I feel like a little too much information is revealed in the blurb leading readers into the story with a wariness, an expectation of what's coming, and it puts a damper on the enjoyment of watching young love blossom. As might be expected, Full Flight is a heart-breaker so have the tissues ready. In spite of all that, Full Flight is a story of hope, survival and learning to let go and move on. Highly recommended to fans of young adult romance.
Synopsis:
Everyone else in the tiny town of Enfield, Texas calls fall football season, but for the forty-three members of the Fighting Enfield Marching Band, it’s contest season. And for new saxophonist Anna James, it’s her first chance to prove herself as the great musician she’s trying hard to be.
When she’s assigned a duet with mellophone player Weston Ryan, the boy her small-minded town thinks of as nothing but trouble, she’s equal parts thrilled and intimidated. But as he helps her with the duet, and she sees the smile he seems to save just for her, she can’t help but feel like she’s helping him with something too.
After her strict parents find out she’s been secretly seeing him and keep them apart, together they learn what it truly means to fight for something they love. With the marching contest nearing, and the two falling hard for one another, the unthinkable happens, and Anna is left grappling for a way forward without Weston.
When she’s assigned a duet with mellophone player Weston Ryan, the boy her small-minded town thinks of as nothing but trouble, she’s equal parts thrilled and intimidated. But as he helps her with the duet, and she sees the smile he seems to save just for her, she can’t help but feel like she’s helping him with something too.
After her strict parents find out she’s been secretly seeing him and keep them apart, together they learn what it truly means to fight for something they love. With the marching contest nearing, and the two falling hard for one another, the unthinkable happens, and Anna is left grappling for a way forward without Weston.
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