✨✨✨✨The Hard Count by Ginger Scott✨✨✨✨
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Nico Medina’s world is eleven miles away from mine. During the day, it’s a place where doors are open—where homes are lived in, and neighbors love. But when the sun sets, it becomes a place where young boys are afraid, where eyes watch from idling cars that hide in the shadows and wicked smoke flows from pipes.
West End is the kind of place that people survive. It buries them—one at a time, one way or another. And when Nico was a little boy, his mom always told him to run.
I’m Reagan Prescott—coach’s daughter, sister to the prodigal son, daughter in the perfect family.
Life on top.
Lies.
My world is the ugly one. Private school politics and one of the best high school football programs in the country can break even the toughest souls. Our darkness plays out in whispers and rumors, and money and status trump all. I would know—I’ve watched it kill my family slowly, strangling us for years.
In our twisted world, a boy from West End is the only shining light.
Quarterback.
Hero.
Heart.
Good.
I hated him before I needed him.
I fell for him fast.
I loved him when it was almost too late.
When two ugly worlds collide, even the strongest fall. But my world…it hasn’t met the boy from West End.
Caroline's Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
What a wonderful book!
"Nico is a wild stallion full of promise and gifts, and I'm not sure if he can be tamed. I'm not sure if he should."
This is not just a sports romance; it's also very much about people - about perceptions and misconceptions of other people, as well as about family, the ones you choose as well as the ones that share the same blood.
"You're the smartest girl I've ever met, and...I had no idea how to handle you."
Nico and Reagan are from opposite ends of the social spectrum. He is the scholarship kid, from the wrong side of the tracks, at Reagan's prestigious school. They are not friends but they are challenging verbal sparring adversaries, and more alike than they realise. Both are driven and focused on their goals. He is the gifted student likely to make valedictorian. She is the talented student headed to film school.
The same night that Reagan's quarterback twin brother suffers an injury, Reagan impulsively filmed Nico and his friends playing football. When she takes her film footage to the football coach, her father, it changes the course of Nico's life.
Set against the background of football, private school politics, prejudice, and personal tragedy is a beautiful and tentative love story of two young people. It was a slow burn romance with so much feeling, but also some great, humorous and clever dialogue.
"Just don't ever stop looking at me...Look at me like you expect more. Look at me like it isn't going to be easy...Make me earn it...I'll never stop trying to earn it...to earn you."
I loved the connection between Nico and Reagan. He had a great way with words that made me melt! He was sweet, tender, and genuine, and liked to tease her.
Such a gorgeous story about rising above adversity through grit, determination and belief in oneself, as well as being bolstered and supported by the ones you love, and who love you back just as much. Thoroughly recommend!
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