Review: Game Changer by Abbi Glines

Game Changer (The Field Party #6) by Abbi Glines
Genre: Young/New Adult (Contemporary Romance)
Date Published: March 22, 2022
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Ezmita Ramos has always had big plans for her future, ones that would take her far outside the Lawton city limits. But with overprotective parents who control every part of her life, she’s worried that these dreams will never become reality.

There’s nothing Asa Griffith wants more than to leave Lawton. It’s his senior year and he’s all set to attend Ole Miss in the fall, but a part of him also worries about what will happen if he leaves his mom living alone with his abusive father. After a huge fight with his father that escalates to violence, Asa is forced out of the house in the middle of the night with nowhere to go.

When Asa and Ezmita cross paths that night, neither of them is in the mood to socialize. But they also feel this undeniable chemistry, one that gives them each hope that better days lie ahead. Then Asa is sent away to live with his grandmother for four months, only to return to Lawton and find out Ezmita has moved on. Still, the sparks between Asa and Ezmita linger. Neither of them has forgotten the way they felt seen by the other at their lowest points.

Can Asa and Ezmita find their way back to each other?

Game Changer is the sixth book in The Field Party series by Abbi Glines. This is Asa and Ezmita's story. This story was published in 2022, but takes place in 2020, and I have to say I'm really glad I didn't read it when it came out. If I'd read it then, I probably wouldn't have finished it. This went so overboard on the whole COVID situation. I'm usually a big fan of this author's books, so this is a hard review to write. I know the characters in this series always have some kind of hardship in their lives that they have to work through, and they usually do that successfully, and end with a happy ending. This time around, we got a senseless murder & racism in the beginning which never played any part nor was it touched on in the rest of the book. So, Why? Was it for some random shock factor? I don't know. Then COVID happens.. All things COVID were drowning the pages, and it really took away from the characters and their story. Plus, guess what? No happy ending! Actually it wasn't really an ending at all. There's a fine line between fictional worlds and real life sometimes. I like to read to escape, and while I like the story to be believable, I also don't want reality smacking me in the face. This one definitely smacks you with all the reality, plus the ridiculous, of what went on during that time, and not in a good "make you think" kind of way. 

It looks like we'll see this couple in the next book, as it seems like it'll be playing catch up with updates on all the couples of the previous books, but I'm not sure if I'm going to read it or not. I like how those stories all ended. I want them to keep the happily ever afters they got. I don't want to be disappointed. And well, this couple? I'm just not that interested at this point. 

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Abbi Glines is a #1 New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the Rosemary Beach, Sea Breeze, Vincent Boys, and Existence series. She has a new YA series coming out in the fall of 2015 titled The Field Party Series . She never cooks unless baking during the Christmas holiday counts. She believes in ghosts and has a habit of asking people if their house is haunted before she goes in it. She drinks afternoon tea because she wants to be British but alas she was born in Alabama. When asked how many books she has written she has to stop and count on her fingers. When she’s not locked away writing, she is reading, shopping (major shoe and purse addiction), sneaking off to the movies alone, and listening to the drama in her teenagers lives while making mental notes on the good stuff to use later. Don’t judge.

You can connect with Abbi online in several different ways. She uses social media to procrastinate.

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