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3 stars — Well shoot. I can honestly say that I didn’t have as much success with this book. While there were things that I enjoyed, there were just too many other things that bugged me for it to be an enjoyable overall read. I’ll try not to get too ranty, but I do want to express the things that weren’t to this reader’s personal liking. I kind of noticed this in the first book, but it appears that Ms. Glines likes to ride the line for me…maybe for many. And depending on where that line is for you personally, she might go over it or she might not. In the first book she definitely rode my line, but I gave her a pass on a few things hoping that they weren’t going to be trends, as well as the fact that there was so much ELSE that I loved about the book…make sense? Anyways, in this book Ms. Glines fell right over my personal line, on a few issues.

OK, first things first, I don’t think I really paid attention to the blurb, I just got it when it was on sale because it was in the series and I crossed my fingers I was going to like the series. But if I had paid closer attention to the blurb, I might have been more leery. I’m not usually a fan of love triangles. It takes a VERY SPECIAL author to make that OK for me. Now, honestly? This wasn’t actually a bad love triangle. At least in terms of leading people on, potentially cheating, or falling in love with both choices and one getting hurt. So all the normal things that make a love triangle icky for me actually weren’t there. But I also didn’t see the point. I felt like the story would have actually been STRONGER without it taking up so much space in the narrative. I already knew which boy she would end up with, b/c I had seen who book 3 was going to be about. And so having a good number of chapters from (spoilers?) Brady’s POV actually just made me dislike Brady…which is a bummer. He was a dick to Ivy, hearing him call himself a good guy while he’s being an jerk did not endear himself to me. And I wasn’t impressed with his feelings for Willa. I will admit, that he at least had a mini growth spurt at the end of the book in how he supported Gunner, but now I’m not sure how he’s going to redeem himself in general. Course, I’m still curious.

As for the two characters that *should* have had most of the focus, let’s start with Gunner. He had a pretty crap situation, but the more I learned, the more over the top the whole thing became, and the more detached I became from him. There were many opportunities for me to feel for him and what he was going through, and I just…didn’t really. Or least not enough. I didn’t see as much growth as I would have liked from him…I didn’t see his caring, I didn’t see these redeeming qualities that Willa and Nonna saw. He was a terrible friend really, he treated women horribly, and he had zero coping mechanisms. I get that how he grew up shaped him, but I needed to see something more to fall in love with him. And I just didn’t. I didn’t hate him, but I didn’t feel for him nearly as much as I think I was supposed to. I will admit that he made me laugh sometimes though.

Then there’s Willa. I felt glimmers of attachment to her too, but then they kind of went nowhere as well. Maybe because the story was split between 3 characters, I didn’t get as much time in her head? I did feel for what her mother did to her, and I did feel for the tragedy she went through, but I had a major personal beef with that whole storyline that I think it prevented me from going all in with Willa as well. And really, there just wasn’t much about her personality that we got to see. She had some funny one-liners, but I just don’t really know what she was like.

I know I was supposed to love Nonna, but I just didn’t…I didn’t hate her or anything, but I was disappointed in the way she treated Willa. I guess it’s human, after what she went through with Willa’s Mom, but having raised Willa for so much of her life, you would think Willa would have earned some trust. Half the time Nonna understood that Willa was nothing like her mother, and she would say nice things…and the other half…well, I don’t know. There just felt like opportunities missed there.

And before I get onto spoilery things, the major thing that’s proving to be a problem in this series is that other than the female main characters in BOTH stories, there are NO OTHER good female characters. I get that it’s a small town, but really? The way the other girls are described are such stereotypical mean girl/slut-shaming stuff, it’s so ridiculously disappointing…and not to make a judgement call (though I guess I am making one), but it feels like lazy writing. Also, it really does not paint any of these boys in a great light with the way they treat the girls in their school. I was not impressed by this in the first book, and we just got to see even more of it here. NOT A FAN.

OK, the next 2 things are spoilery, so skip the rest if you don’t want to be spoiled.

I have a HUGE personal beef with the way Willa’s tragedy was represented. I absolutely HATE that people still view pot as worse than alcohol, and the evil of all evils. I don’t care if you have a problem with it AS LONG as you also have a problem with alcohol. Because, let’s be real: alcohol is just as bad if not worse than pot. So when you write a book where all of the teenagers are hanging out drinking every weekend, and it appears that they occasionally drink and drive, and it’s not looked upon in a negative way, and there are NO CONSEQUENCES to this whatsoever…and then you make it so that when Willa and her friends are drinking and smoking pot, and a child dies, and you lightly touch on the drinking, but focus heavily on the smoking as the reason they were inattentive “because pot makes it so you don’t care about anything”…Grrr NO. NO. NO NO NO. I’m not saying that I think teenagers should be smoking pot…or drinking alcohol. But stop pushing this kind of propaganda, it’s not helping teens make responsible choices. The tragedy would have happened if all they’d been doing is drinking alcohol. FOR REALZ. It’s about irresponsibility. Sorry, it just pisses me off when people are fine with alcohol abuse, but see pot as the devil drug. God. Sorry, rant rant rant.

Also, as a side note? I wasn’t super happy with the way some of the other little things were addressed in this book either: like the suicide, or believing someone about rape.

The OTHER thing is that ending!! WTF??? Nothing was resolved!! That was not a complete book! What happens next?? Geez, that’s not cool.

OK, so now that I’ve let out all my negative emotions, I’m going to shock the crap out of you guys. I’m probably going to read the next book. I want Brady to get the chance to redeem himself (and I hope he does), and I’m super curious about Riley. But we’ll see which side of my line Ms. Glines stays on…I’ll be bummed if she crosses it again, b/c I’m most looking forward to Nash’s book, but what are you gonna do? At least they read fast.


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Under the Lights Field Party Book 2 eBook Abbi Glines Reviews

This had a rocky start for me, but got much better as we learned more about the characters. I am pretty excited about the set up for the next book too.

Things I liked
*I immediately wanted to hug Willa. We are not sure what she did, but it was something that she was very remorseful for, and something her mother abandoned her (again) for. She wanted to make better choices, do well in school, and make her grandmother proud. When I found out what Willa had been dealing with, my heart broke right open.

*Gunner really won me over, when he started being real. In the beginning of the book, I sort of thought he was a jerk, with his love-em-and-leave-em attitude towards women and locker room talk, but then he started shedding this "armor", and what was left was someone with a lot of repressed pain. I was really happy that Willa coming back to town, prompted Brady to renew his friendship with Gunner as they both rekindled their friendship with Willa.

*Willa's Grandmother is tucked in my heart with all the other fab grandmas I have been reading about lately and with my own. She was a really special lady, with a huge heart filled with so much love.

*I cannot lie, the drama in this one was so soap opera worthy, and I loved it!

I love friends-to-more stories, and am also a fan of second chance romances, so this was a solid read for me. It also got better as the story progressed, and I was pleased with where Glines took the story by the end of the book.
In the second installment of The Field Party Series by Abbi Glines we meet Willa who has returned to Lawton after being gone for six years and is dealing with some demons. She's back and trying to keep to herself, but her best friends from childhood Brady and Gunner refuse to let her isolate herself. All grown up and seniors in high school the three of them are learning that their friendship from all those years ago is still as strong, but some things are different.

Willa was sent to live with her Nonna, the only one who ever really cared about her, after being thrown out of her parents house. As the story progresses we learn why, and it's tragic and breaks your heart. Willa has a lot of healing to do in this story, and with the help of one of these boys she is finally able to forgive herself and start to learn to accept what happened in her past, but it's a long road.

Watching Willa struggle with her feelings both past and present with Brady and Gunner is frustrating at times. Brady and Gunner both want Willa but don't know how to deal with it. They both have a bond with her, and that bond didn't change even with all the years they spent apart. They were inseparable growing up now that they are all together again, things get complicated. You will root for one of these guys to win Willa over more so than the other, just because they fit more so than the other does. That boy also has his own story to tell, and it's just as messed up as Willa's.

This was an angsty and dramatic story that had me hooked till the end, but it ended quite abruptly for my liking and left me with quite a few questions. The epilogue was also in the past instead of the future which is usually ok, but since there was so many unanswered questions I wasn't feeling how this book ended. I did enjoy Willa's story, and also seeing characters from the previous book as well. I'm hoping in the next book some questions will be answered as I have become attached to these characters and need to know what happened!

Overall this was a good read, but there was too many things that were left open ended for me. Willa's story was sad, yet beautiful and full of laughs, tears, and forgiveness. If you're looking for a Young Adult/New Adult book that isn't full of craziness and backstabbing, I do suggest adding this one to your TBR list today.
3 stars — Well shoot. I can honestly say that I didn’t have as much success with this book. While there were things that I enjoyed, there were just too many other things that bugged me for it to be an enjoyable overall read. I’ll try not to get too ranty, but I do want to express the things that weren’t to this reader’s personal liking. I kind of noticed this in the first book, but it appears that Ms. Glines likes to ride the line for me…maybe for many. And depending on where that line is for you personally, she might go over it or she might not. In the first book she definitely rode my line, but I gave her a pass on a few things hoping that they weren’t going to be trends, as well as the fact that there was so much ELSE that I loved about the book…make sense? Anyways, in this book Ms. Glines fell right over my personal line, on a few issues.

OK, first things first, I don’t think I really paid attention to the blurb, I just got it when it was on sale because it was in the series and I crossed my fingers I was going to like the series. But if I had paid closer attention to the blurb, I might have been more leery. I’m not usually a fan of love triangles. It takes a VERY SPECIAL author to make that OK for me. Now, honestly? This wasn’t actually a bad love triangle. At least in terms of leading people on, potentially cheating, or falling in love with both choices and one getting hurt. So all the normal things that make a love triangle icky for me actually weren’t there. But I also didn’t see the point. I felt like the story would have actually been STRONGER without it taking up so much space in the narrative. I already knew which boy she would end up with, b/c I had seen who book 3 was going to be about. And so having a good number of chapters from (spoilers?) Brady’s POV actually just made me dislike Brady…which is a bummer. He was a dick to Ivy, hearing him call himself a good guy while he’s being an jerk did not endear himself to me. And I wasn’t impressed with his feelings for Willa. I will admit, that he at least had a mini growth spurt at the end of the book in how he supported Gunner, but now I’m not sure how he’s going to redeem himself in general. Course, I’m still curious.

As for the two characters that *should* have had most of the focus, let’s start with Gunner. He had a pretty crap situation, but the more I learned, the more over the top the whole thing became, and the more detached I became from him. There were many opportunities for me to feel for him and what he was going through, and I just…didn’t really. Or least not enough. I didn’t see as much growth as I would have liked from him…I didn’t see his caring, I didn’t see these redeeming qualities that Willa and Nonna saw. He was a terrible friend really, he treated women horribly, and he had zero coping mechanisms. I get that how he grew up shaped him, but I needed to see something more to fall in love with him. And I just didn’t. I didn’t hate him, but I didn’t feel for him nearly as much as I think I was supposed to. I will admit that he made me laugh sometimes though.

Then there’s Willa. I felt glimmers of attachment to her too, but then they kind of went nowhere as well. Maybe because the story was split between 3 characters, I didn’t get as much time in her head? I did feel for what her mother did to her, and I did feel for the tragedy she went through, but I had a major personal beef with that whole storyline that I think it prevented me from going all in with Willa as well. And really, there just wasn’t much about her personality that we got to see. She had some funny one-liners, but I just don’t really know what she was like.

I know I was supposed to love Nonna, but I just didn’t…I didn’t hate her or anything, but I was disappointed in the way she treated Willa. I guess it’s human, after what she went through with Willa’s Mom, but having raised Willa for so much of her life, you would think Willa would have earned some trust. Half the time Nonna understood that Willa was nothing like her mother, and she would say nice things…and the other half…well, I don’t know. There just felt like opportunities missed there.

And before I get onto spoilery things, the major thing that’s proving to be a problem in this series is that other than the female main characters in BOTH stories, there are NO OTHER good female characters. I get that it’s a small town, but really? The way the other girls are described are such stereotypical mean girl/slut-shaming stuff, it’s so ridiculously disappointing…and not to make a judgement call (though I guess I am making one), but it feels like lazy writing. Also, it really does not paint any of these boys in a great light with the way they treat the girls in their school. I was not impressed by this in the first book, and we just got to see even more of it here. NOT A FAN.

OK, the next 2 things are spoilery, so skip the rest if you don’t want to be spoiled.

I have a HUGE personal beef with the way Willa’s tragedy was represented. I absolutely HATE that people still view pot as worse than alcohol, and the evil of all evils. I don’t care if you have a problem with it AS LONG as you also have a problem with alcohol. Because, let’s be real alcohol is just as bad if not worse than pot. So when you write a book where all of the teenagers are hanging out drinking every weekend, and it appears that they occasionally drink and drive, and it’s not looked upon in a negative way, and there are NO CONSEQUENCES to this whatsoever…and then you make it so that when Willa and her friends are drinking and smoking pot, and a child dies, and you lightly touch on the drinking, but focus heavily on the smoking as the reason they were inattentive “because pot makes it so you don’t care about anything”…Grrr NO. NO. NO NO NO. I’m not saying that I think teenagers should be smoking pot…or drinking alcohol. But stop pushing this kind of propaganda, it’s not helping teens make responsible choices. The tragedy would have happened if all they’d been doing is drinking alcohol. FOR REALZ. It’s about irresponsibility. Sorry, it just pisses me off when people are fine with alcohol abuse, but see pot as the devil drug. God. Sorry, rant rant rant.

Also, as a side note? I wasn’t super happy with the way some of the other little things were addressed in this book either like the suicide, or believing someone about rape.

The OTHER thing is that ending!! WTF??? Nothing was resolved!! That was not a complete book! What happens next?? Geez, that’s not cool.

OK, so now that I’ve let out all my negative emotions, I’m going to shock the crap out of you guys. I’m probably going to read the next book. I want Brady to get the chance to redeem himself (and I hope he does), and I’m super curious about Riley. But we’ll see which side of my line Ms. Glines stays on…I’ll be bummed if she crosses it again, b/c I’m most looking forward to Nash’s book, but what are you gonna do? At least they read fast.