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A review by arielzeit
First & Then by Emma Mills
4.0
I love Emma Mills. I love how she weaves in great literature so skillfully into teen novels. I love how real and lovable and unprentious all her characters are. In this case Devon Tennyson loves Jane Austen, but sees herself as a completely average senior in an average public high school in Florida. Or as Jane would put it "undistinguished." She has a crush on her best friend, a football player named Cas, and is quite content to let it rest at that. She knows she has to bestir herself to get into college but she somehow she isn't moved. Until her socially maladroit cousin comes to join her household and turns out to be an amazing football kicker, and gets taken under the wing of an aloof and maddening football star. Devon and Ezra's unprepossessing beginnnings take a tumultuous road not unlike those of Devon's own favorite heroines created by Miss Austen. Altogether a fun and enjoyable read with interesting character arcs for everyone involved.