REVIEW TOUR: VARSITY HEARTBREAKER BY GINGER SCOTT

Varsity Heartbreaker by Ginger Scott is now live! This is the first standalone in the Varsity series and is a must read for those who enjoy young adult (with new adult themes) high school romances! Find out more below. 

​Book 1 in The Varsity Series by Ginger Scott
 
Lucas Fuller is a lot of things.
He’s the boy next door.
He’s the first crush I ever had.
He was my first kiss.
He’s also the only person who has ever broken my heart.
 
For two years, I’ve wondered what happened to the us I used to know.
We were best friends, and then suddenly…we weren’t.
I tried to run away from it. I even changed schools just to make the hurt disappear.
But no matter how hard I tried to not think about Lucas, I just couldn’t stay away from the high school quarterback with perfect blue eyes and so many secrets.
 
I’m back. We’re seniors now. We’ve grown—all of us. And Lucas Fuller might be different, but I’m different too. This is my time to take risks, to experience life and to fall in love for real.
 
I want Lucas Fuller to be a part of my story, but I know for that to happen, I need to know the truth about our past.

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​Release Date: May 28, 2020
Actual Rating: 4 stars

Young Adult | High School Romance | Neighbors

I’ve been craving a young adult romance and reading Varsity Heartbreaker by Ginger Scott really hit the spot! Varsity Heartbreaker is a young adult, high school romance. There are some enemy vibes, but nothing close to bullying. There is also a second chance, childhood friends to lover’s vibe, but we never really “get this” until closer to the end when the reason for their parting is revealed. This is also a sweet, somewhat sexual (only a few small parts) romance and would be perfect for both adults and upper young adult readers.

June and Lucas were childhood friends, but two years ago he stopped talking to her and ignored her every time she tried to find out why he started hating her. So, she left school for a year and when to a local Montessori school. Unfortunately, after her mother’s divorce she couldn’t afford to go there any longer and had to go back to school where Lucas and some bullies from her past are. It’s not an easy transition for June, and things are pretty touch and go for a while but befriending the right people (I loved Tory) has helped her in ways she never expected. In this budding friendship, things between her and Lucas start to spark up again. But when she finds out WHY he ghosted her, it just may change everything…

I loved this “twist” as to why Lucas ignored her, even though the lack of communication brought them both from so much heartbreak. I guess it wouldn’t be a story without it though, right? June and Lucas are great characters. I think many readers will love them even if they can’t connect with them on deep levels because they are so young. You may relate to some of their issues though which is why I think both older teens and adults can enjoy this one.

So, would I recommend it? YES! I can’t wait for Tory and Addie’s story next. Their bickering in the background really sets us up for their story and I can’t wait to see how these two come together!

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​There’s a camera crew on the field—a real one, not our student-run Internet show. They’ve positioned camera guys on either side of the banner being stretched out by a tower of cheerleaders. When the team trickles out, everyone in the student section—which has basically grown to be two-thirds of the stands—gets on their feet to scream. Abby is standing in front of me and she turns, catches me not doing my part, and points in that threatening way she has.
 
“Fine,” I mouth, cupping my hands around my lips and shouting, “Go Eagles!” as loud as I can. The sheer volume of my own voice, the togetherness of this moment, all of it—it infects me. My smile quits being pretend, and I get caught up in my role. I have a part to play, albeit probably not as important as everyone thinks, but for the next three hours, I will be a superfan. For the next three hours, nothing matters more than winning this game and destroying some school from South Bend.
 
The young men on the field shout in unison, growling with testosterone and pounding into each other, smacking helmets to helmets and gripping at facemasks to amp up their game faces. They explode through the banner, confetti covering the corner of the field as it’s fired from a few cannons held by some of our cheerleaders. Lucas is the first to break through, holding an American flag as he sprints straight down the center of the field, his co-captains running behind him with two Eagles flags.
 
My All-American boy.
 
He was so much younger the last time I saw him run like this. He was a leader that seemed too small to lead, but now—now he’s the guy with the V that cuts down his abs and whose arms completely fill out the sleeves of his jersey; whose neck doesn’t seem so pencil-thin anymore. His sweaty hair is swept to either side, and the black lines swiped under his eyes somehow make him seem like this superhero.
 
A hero who abandoned me when he got popular and when my life fell to shit, I remind myself.
 
The team captains are met by one of the coaches at the fifty-yard line. He takes their flags to fold them while the boys huddle up to pray. It’s such a blatant disregard for the separation of church and state, yet it seems nothing could be more important than this bonding happening in front of us all. More than the quiet power of the moment, though, is that Lucas is the one leading the prayer. Arms over shoulders, circles standing within circles, these boys who I’ve seen do the most unchristian-like things give respect to his words. I wish I could hear him or be close enough to read his lips. Some of the boys look up to the sky, a few of them holding their helmets high while their heads lower. Lucas’s eyes are closed, and there’s an innocence in his features, that much I can see from here. They all start clapping and an echoing “Amen” accompanies their formation of a tighter circle until the clapping becomes thunder and soon . . . fuel.
 
Lucas is the last to walk away from this private spot on the field. His head down, I recognize the familiar invisible weight on his shoulders. Even as kids, he always felt so damn responsible for everything and everyone. Especially for me. He rode his bike through rain to sneak me my favorite candy bar when my parents were fighting downstairs. And he insisted we fall asleep still on our phone call to each other if I felt scared or off. He sensed things when I didn’t share. He took burdens from me, whether I wanted him to or not, and shouldered them until he was sure my smile was real again.
 
I miss him. I miss him so fucking much.
 
I press my palms into my eyes while my friends aren’t looking, and manage to stop myself from feeling all of this somewhere so public. In less than a minute, the game takes over and distracts me from anything other than the anticipation and hope that brews in my belly every time Lucas throws the ball. He’s gotten better. I understand why his opportunity window is so big. There’s an easiness to the way he moves, and it’s more than instinct. He has plenty of that, though, after throwing the ball down our street to his dad every night—a million which ways and for hours on end. They haven’t thrown since freshman year, but that’s probably because Lucas has outgrown what his dad can give him.
 

ABOUT GINGER SCOTT

Ginger Scott is an Amazon-bestselling and Goodreads Choice Award-nominated author of several young and new adult romances, including Waiting on the Sidelines, Going Long, Blindness, How We Deal With Gravity, This Is Falling, You and Everything After, The Girl I Was Before, Wild Reckless, Wicked Restless, In Your Dreams, The Hard Count, Hold My Breath, and A Boy Like You.
 
A sucker for a good romance, Ginger’s other passion is sports, and she often blends the two in her stories. (She’s also a sucker for a hot quarterback, catcher, pitcher, point guard…the list goes on.) Ginger has been writing and editing for newspapers, magazines and blogs for more than 15 years. She has told the stories of Olympians, politicians, actors, scientists, cowboys, criminals and towns. For more on her and her work, visit her website at http://www.littlemisswrite.com.
 
When she's not writing, the odds are high that she's somewhere near a baseball diamond, either watching her son field pop flies like Bryce Harper or cheering on her favorite baseball team, the Arizona Diamondbacks. Ginger lives in Arizona and is married to her college sweetheart whom she met at ASU (fork 'em, Devils).
 
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