Full Flight
* One of Kirkus' Best Books of 2022 *
* A Top Ten 2023 Texas Tayshas Reading List Pick *
“Full of humor, whimsy, and heartache, Full Flight explores the many notes of grief and love and the happiness found in the soft moments between. Schumacher’s sophomore novel punches you in the feels and I can’t wait for her to do it again.” - Ashley Poston, New York Times bestselling author of The Dead Romantics and Geekerella
Ashley Schumacher’s Full Flight is about how first love shapes us—even after it’s gone.
Everyone else in the tiny town of Enfield, Texas, calls fall football season, but for the forty-three members of the Fighting Bearcat Marching Band, it’s contest season. And for new saxophonist Anna James, it’s her first chance to prove herself as the great musician she’s trying hard to be.
When she’s assigned a duet with mellophone player Weston Ryan, the boy her small-minded town thinks of as nothing but trouble, she’s equal parts thrilled and intimidated. But as he helps her with the duet, and she sees the smile he seems to save just for her, she can’t help but feel like she’s helping him with something too.
When her strict parents find out she’s been secretly seeing him and keep them apart, Anna and Weston learn what it truly means to fight for something they love. With the marching contest nearing and the two falling hard for one another, the unthinkable happens, and Anna is left grappling for a way forward without Weston.
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Community Reviews
Anna wasn't expecting to fall for Weston when she was partnered up with him to do a duet for the marching band but the more time they spent together the more they realized just how well they fit together. I liked the development of their relationship from beginning to end.
I also enjoyed the family dynamics between Anna, her parents, and younger sister. Weston's family on the other hand has just recently hit a bump in the road when his parents divorce. I liked that the more Weston was around Anna's family the more he made peace with the new dynamic between him and his parents. By the end things settle and he realizes that even though his parents aren't together anymore they're still a family.
Overall this book is a perfect blend of love, family, loss, and working through grief. I definitely recommend it and plan to read more of Ashley Schumacher's books in the future.
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