Firsts can be fraught with emotion. First loves, first kisses, first… other things, is always paired with first heartbreak. Young adult and new adult romance author Abbi Glines takes this delicate time and explores it to its full extent in The Rosemary Beach Series and most recently in her Field Party series. So if you enjoy first loves and the tears that go along with it, check out these books to read if you like Abbi Glines.
Books to Read if You Like Abbi Glines
Travesty
Carrie Thomas
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Sophia Sawyer wakes up chained in a basement she doesn’t recognize with no clue who she is or how she got there. Trying to work through her fear, she sets her sights on escaping. When an opportunity arises, she puts her trust in a boy she doesn’t know, praying he’ll be the one to save her. Abram Scott is experiencing the best and worst year of his life. Letting go of Sophia while not knowing if she will return, turns into the scariest decision Abram can make.
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Brittainy Cherry
Release Date: September 22, 2016
When Maggie was ten, she witnessed a deed so horrifying that she has been rendered speechless ever since. Brooks Griffin is the only one who truly understands. Best friends since they were six and planning their wedding at ten, Brooks and Maggie knew their love was inevitable. But when the dark days become more frequent, Maggie starts to wonder what Brooks is doing with such a broken person.
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Beth Revis
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Seventeen-year-old Bo has always had delusions that he can travel through time. When he was ten, Bo traveled to the Titanic to witness it hit an iceberg, and at fifteen, he found himself on a Civil War battlefield, horrified by the bodies surround him. So when his concerned parents send him to a school for troubled youth, Bo assumes he knows the truth: that Berkshire Academy is a school for superheroes. At Berkshire, Bo meets and falls in love with Sophia, a quiet girl with a tragic past and the superpower of invisibility. But even their love isn’t enough to quell Sophia’s deep depression. When she commits suicide, Bo is convinced that she’s not actually dead. He believes she’s simply stuck in time and he needs to find her.
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Amy Sparling
Release Date: September 13, 2016
When Josh’s best friend goes on vacation for the whole summer and Josh is left working at his parent’s surf shop with Bryce, he resigns himself to a crappy summer. To keep himself occupied, him and Bryce make a list of what the “perfect girlfriend” would be like, and now they plan to find her. Bess Navarre is chubby, dorky and a self-proclaimed loser and her grandmother is set on embarrassing her this summer by making her work at a bikini boutique by the beach. When Bess and Josh’s paths collide, sparks fly. But Bryce is pushing Josh to date the supermodel “perfect girlfriend’ and Beth won’t give herself a chance to even be considered.
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Release Date: September 13, 2016
Olivia, Emily and Dustin have been inseperable since middle school, the three best friends anyone could ask for. Olivia and Dustin have hooked up a few times but Olivia doesn’t want to go any further because she thinks it will ruin the friendship between the three of them. So when her best friends betray her in the worst possible way, who’s there to pick up the pieces?
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Holding Up The Universe
Jennifer Niven
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Following her mother’s death, Libby Strout, a girl once dubbed “America’s Fattest Teen”, attempted to pick up the pieces of her life in the privacy of her own home. Now, Libby’s ready: for high school, for new friends and love but hoping no one remembers her from the time she was airlifted out of her house on the evening news. So when Libby gets tangled up in a cruel high school game with Jack Masselin, the charming, popular badass, she’s pissed that her plan of fitting in didn’t work. But as Jack and Libby start to get to know each other, she learns he doesn’t fit in as well as she once thought.
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