My review: 4⭐
“I hope if you write about us tonight, it feels like the beginning of a very long story”
What a heartbreaking story of young love found and lost way too soon.
Anna and Weston need to perform a duet together for the marching band at school. Weston is known as an outcast in town, so Anna has to sneak behind her over protective parents back in order to see him to practice. You can smell how that’ll turn out a mile away.
I thought this was well written and I enjoyed listening to this young couple find their first love.
The dual narration was almost perfect ~ Tina sounded the proper age, but Cody sounded a little too old to be a high school student. I would read or listen to this authors work again.
*Thanks to Netgalley, Tantor Audio and Ashley Schumacher for the advance audiobook. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*
Book blurb: Release date ~ February 22, 2022
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.
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.
