Losing the Field (Field Party)

This is one of my favorite books I would hundred percent recommend it. I’m not a reader reader, but when I read, I want a good book and this is one to read.

Spoiler alertOne, the response to Nash smoking weed and dramatizing it is backward. This is a common issue in this series.Second, Nash saw Tallulah get assaulted and didn't stop it. He knew all along about Daces motives and didn't warn her. He assumed it was consensual when a teacher kissing an underage student is never consensual, no matter who started it. What if dace advanced further and Nash hadn't stopped it? It's also insane that daces wife was going to stay w him and blame Tallulah, calling her a Lolita until dace confessed. The handling of assault in this book is better than the previous but still pretty horrific and victim blaming. It's gross that Tallulah just forgives Nash and so immediately. Not to mention him breaking into her house.The pacing was a mess. Their relationship didn't get enough time to deepen and evolve into love. The character development happened overnight

I am a huge Abbi Gaines fan. I have read just about every book she has written and I must say I liked her earlier books and series better. She is really the only YA author I read, but I prefer her college level romances. The high school ones are way over the top drama, angst, and read like a bad soap opera.Anyway, this book is the story of Nash, a high school football star who recently suffered a career ending injury, and Tallulah is a girl who went through school very over weight till her senior year and always loved Nash from afar. So there is a lot of bad teenage decisions and silly young girl drama happening all around these two kids but their lives take much more serious turns. The characters are fully developed, this full length story is written well. Here is my dilemma. (Light spoilers) Something big and bad happens and Nash believes the worst and is a complete self absorbed jerk. Tallulah forgives him in one paragraph at the very end after many chapters of heartache and crushed trust and it just wasn’t credible or entertaining. No matter how quickly or neatly you wrap it up it does not make up for how Nash acted or what he did. I lost respect for Tallulah especially towards the end because she keeps looking at Nash like a lost puppy no matter that he believes and buys into the rumors and assumptions made about her. If you like super angst over the top teenage soap operas then this book and series are for you. If you want a little older YA romance with some drama mixed in then read Ms. Glines earlier series. I would return this one if I could but its been to long since I bought it. I gave it three stars because it wasn’t written badly it just wasn’t my kind of story.Still a fan Ms. Glines but I am staying away from your high school series. Hope this was helpful. Enjoy!

Let's face it, high school can be rough. Who ever said it's the best times of our lives clearly didn't go to my school. I think for most people high school goes 1 of 2 ways.1. You're popular, your fit it and and it's great.Or2. You're not popular, you're an outcast and it's miserable.So when you manage to find maybe even just 1 person that makes those days a little bit easier it can be everything. That would be Nash for Tallulah. That is until she over hears him laughing at someone calling her fat. The one thing she is most critical of herself for is her weight. Now her world is shattered. She vows to get back at him. All summer long she has one goal in mind.... revenge.Can Nash get back into her good graces?Will Tallulah find what she was looking for with her revenge?I wish Tallulah hadn't had to go through that. It broke my heart when the one person she thought was on her side betrayed her. Her turmoil is probably very similar to the way many girls go through during high school. A very relatable young adult book for sure.

This is my favorite book of the series! I almost cried!

Another great installment in The Field Party series. This one had some much heavier subjects in it that what I'm used to from Glines but once again she showed us she can write anything. She wrote it so well. I can't wait for the next one!Tallulah--Once she was invisible to every one but Nash. She was the fact girl that everyone ignored unless they were making fun of her then Nash feel to peer pressure and joined and now she's dead set on revenge.Nash--He was about to be the star player for Lawton High School before going off to play college ball when one mistake cost him his football career. Now, he's angry and standing on the sidelines.Can these two help one another overcome the anger the feel inside? Add in a teacher that doesn't seem to see right from wrong and you've got one heck of a book!

This book is amazing! The lessons here are deep. An I had written a story to get lost in, but also combined it with life lessons that many of us need to be reminded of. This isn’t a book about a girl who thought she was badass after losing weight or a football star who was whiny after being hurt. It’s a story of a girl that transformed on the outside, but was still the same on the indeed regardless of how many people chose to “judge a book by its cover.” It’s a book about a football star who had his life planned out before it all came crumbling down after an injury and having to learn a new path for the first time in his life. It’s a book about acceptance, struggle, friendship, forgiveness, and love with some amazing snark thrown in. I love Abbi’s writing and you will too.

Losing the Field was greatly anticipated because I love Abbi & all of her books, but I needed more too. For a ways in I felt like I had missed something in a previous book about Nash and his incident. I wish this book had more backstory, for it is a series of the guys we had plenty of info on Tallulah not so much about Nash. He was always vaguely mentioned in the other books.However their story brought tears to my eyes several times. It was real, what happens today in schools & how quickly it gets out of hand. Plus there are repercussions for some actions, that hit hard. We needed another chapter at the end to really leave us believing the HEA.

Argh what have you done Abbi, by the end of reading this I had tears running down my cheeks.We've met Nash Lee in the other field party books but this is his and Tallulah story being told.It had everything I loved, i just couldn't put it down.I felt for Tallulah, especially near the end. I won't go into it too much as I do not like spoiling for others but be prepared you'll need tissues.Nash is feeling lost with his Injury he is unable to play Football, so he's very angry and hurt at everyone. Then he starts to get close to Tallulah. She's transformed herself over the summer break, lost weight and determined to start her senior year differently. And one thing different from everyone else is she doesn't feel sorry for him. Which he finds refreshing as mostly everyone is shown him pity.They grow closer but there's a few things that get in there way.I truly loved this story.Now the only little bit that disappointed me was how it ended. It ended quickly and I wanted more. I Need More. I want Ryker or Asa story now please.

I love Abbi's books especially this series. Tallulah was the fat girl at school ignored and any attention was only when someone ridiculed her. All apart from on boy. All the way through school one boy had always been nice to her - Nash. Nash with his beautiful smile, one she lived for. Then one day a joke is made about her weight and Nash laughs and it breaks her heart. Determined to have the last laugh Tallulah uses the summer to lose weight. Senior year she comes back unrecognizable and determined to hate Nash. Nash however is not the boy she knew before summer, he's broken and no longer the confident smiling boy she once knew. Can Tallulah really hate him when she knows how it feels to feel alone.Abbi delivers again, another great story, with characters that you love and root for. I would have liked a final chapter where we get to see Nash and Tallulah after graduation. My only negative, the book was to darn short, I always want more of Abbi's stories!

I absolutely love abbi and all her books so I feel so bad saying this but I just feel disappointed. The book felt so rushed and almost like stories started and just finished. The YouTube guy was just so random and plonked in the story..him and Nash were friends but we didn’t see much of that? I also wanted to see more happy for Nash and talulah I got to the last page and felt like that’s it?! I just feel like we didn’t get a full story like we have with previous books. That being said I still love abbi and hopefully we will see them being happy in the next stories.

Fantastic book once again by Abbi. Nash was always a good guy, looking out for tallulah. From experience people do treat/see you differently once you've losted lots of weight. Tallulah used her anger and changed, and was excepted for the outside, instead of the inside.The only negative I have, is that I wanted more at the end. I wanted Tallulah to walk back into school, look Pam in the face and tell the nasty bitch how she had made her feel.Well done Abbi xxxxx

I have to say that I truly loved tallulah and nash's story I felt that tallulah from a female perspective is extremely relatable I couldn't put it down my only disappointment is with the ending it just feels rushed I am however going to remain optimistic with this series to see how it all unfolds keep up the good work abbi