Varsity Heartbreaker

Varsity Series, Book 1

By: Ginger Scott

Narrated by: Tina Wolstencroft

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.

©2020 Ginger Scott, Little Miss Write LLC (P)2021 Tantor

5 Star

I love this book I really did. I got it off of the plus catalog and I’ve hadn’t really heard of this author so I thought what the heck I’ll try it. I’m so glad I did. Narration was awesome.

Great

I really enjoyed the storyline. It made cry and laugh and everything in between. I just saw there is a book four where it is Lucas’s point of view. I just wish this book had more to it. What happens to them in the future. I hope there story continues.

can't tell

Just listening to Tina does the story in. I am bored. It desperately needs a male narrator. She can't really draw me into the story so I can't tell whether I like it or not.

Enjoyed

Enjoyable, had a hard time waiting for the long descriptions before the truth telling, looking forward to more books

Sweet and Heartwarming

Truly thought this would be a dud but honestly I truly enjoyed it. Narrator did a good job/ I wish sometimes we would get new chapters years down the road like college years and so on.
Very Sweet.

Sweet

Very good and sweet YA book. Great story. New to this author and really enjoyed this story. You will feel a lot of emotions with this story.

Not Clean & Wholesome

This was probably labeled as clean and wholesome because there is not descriptive sex scenes; however there is a lot of cursing and dialogue that contains sexual content. While I know these topics and challenges are relevant I was not a fan of the content. I don’t mind when it’s implied but relationships represented were really not healthy. DNF

Not for me

​I am so disappointed in this romance novel because it's simply not a romance. A love story so full of hatred, anger, revenge and derision is not a love story at all. It's been a long time since I've met a MMC who was not only a disgrace, but iredeemable at best. For a boy who loved his "best friend" since they could walk, to the high school jerk who treated her like garbage, there was no part of Lucas Fuller that was decent nor kind. He was viscious and cruel, especially with parading his conquests in front of June's eyes, that I really hoped that she could find happiness with another man....ANY other man. I'm not sure what part of Lucas was suppposed to be sexy, cool, swoon-worthy, but I'm here to tell you that he was nothing more than a bothersome gnat. June deserved so much better and, with any luck, she'll find someone who deserves her when she's in college. This was a friends to enemies to neutral to frenemies to friends with benefits to I'm just not sure. Because Lucas was so cold to June until in a blink of an eye, he was fine with her, I didn't have any faith that he really meant what he said. One thing that should have been addressed, but wasn't, was a blowout/meltdown from Lucas when he found out he spent years hating a totally innocent best friend! Nope! It doesn't ring true and I'm surprised that an alpha or beta reader didn't catch that. And the non-existent grand gesture apology from Lucas to June never came. He purposely ruined her life...for what? The tying up of loose ends was hijacked by the issue of prom and it felt a little (a lot) hollow by the end. But there were some good things and some happiness was apparent, but with all the angry heaviness throughout the story it became depressing. After all these years apart and maybe a month of togetherness, they go their separate ways for four more years. There should always be hope for a forever, but with words like "I might lose him to the big world around us," or "I hope that we're lucky enough to be together at the end." The most depressing of all, and served as a insight into their future. "I trust him enough to know that he will always come back to me, in one form or another, and we will always be in love, even if it's only first love?! Ding-ding-ding! Mic drop....just stop right here. First love, not forever love. Epic fail.
Tina Wolstencroft did a wonderful job with the narration!