Friday Night Alibi
18yo high-school graduate usually spends Friday nights in her room, playing video games with another online gamer while providing her good-girl alibi to the town’s trust-fund teens who want to do whatever they want without jeopardizing their trust funds. She goes out with her best friend to a college frat party one Friday night & meets annoying 21yo Hero. She soon finds out that he’s her online-gaming buddy & tries to one-up him with whatever practical joke he plays on her. Their easy camaraderie develop into something more but it intimidates her. How does their relationship change her alibi business? This is a more innocent NA(New adult) book. It’s written according to heroine’s POV(point of view) & her language was realistically that of a current American young adult. Her POV was conversational in nature & I found it engaging. And funny. I laughed at her initial views of Hero & their practical jokes were pretty funny. Sexual chemistry was present but their developing emotional tie was the focal point. There’s a whole lot of kissing & minimal touching (**SPOILER…The furthest they got was some breast touching once but heroine stopped Hero & wasn’t attempted again…**). No sexual consummation, which is new in my NA reading experience. She & Hero are both virgins, which I found realistic given their life situation & character. This book centered on how their relationship gradually evolved from practical jokes to romance. Both main characters are at a place in their lives where maturity needs to take place before they jump into something more serious. It provides much room for a more solid & serious relationship in their future. I like that this book speaks for college-aged young adults who think beyond their hormones & whose lives are not dictated by alcohol, partying, & sex. They’re not perfect & they have issues. And I like that they’re represented in this book.
Recommended.
*ARC courtesy of the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
