Barnes & NobleAnother First Chance by Robbie Couch

Heartbreakingly beautiful!

Thank you Simon and Schuster and Netgalley for this eARC, these opinions are my own. Robbie Couch how dare you??!!! This book had me in tears!! River lost his best friend Dylan a year ago. Unfortunately he’s become a statistic, in their small town, for not texting and driving. River doesn’t want to remember him this way, Dylan was so much more than that. As a result he doesn’t really act the way people expect him to while grieving. When his school works will company called Affinity to do an experiment for people who struggle with social connections they highly encourage River to apply. He’ll never do it, that is until a classmate blackmails him into it. No one else knows what he’s done and if it gets out he will probably lose his college scholarship. He’s forced to spend a week in his empty school with classmates he never got to know. All except Mavis, Dylan’s ex-girlfriend and Rivers ex-best friend. They haven’t spoken since Dylan died, not after what River did. As they embark on the experience River, as much as he’d like not to, starts to make friends. Include Nash, his mentor’s hot athletic brother, who reminds him vaguely of someone. But is Affinity who they claim to be? Will River be able to handle the things he discovers about himself? And is Nash too good to be true? Can he reconnect with Mavis or will this whole thing just make everything worse? I absolutely loved this heartwarming and heart wrenching story! Told through Rivers perspective, with Dylan’s perspective on his last day mixed in! I loved reading from Dylan’s pov, he’s so sweet and caring! I also loved wonderful River, who’s trying to navigate loss while also holding on to all the good things about his best friend! I also love that the side stories of the other characters are brought in and my heart broke for all of them! I found the relationship between River and Dylan to be heartbreakingly beautiful and it gave me all the warm and fuzzies! Robbie is a must read for me and I can’t recommend this book enough, but be prepared to cry!!