Friday Nights Don't Last Forever by Caleb Pirtle III | Cat's Review @CalebPirtle

The dream of college football propels Casey Clinton into the best and worst times of his life.On Friday nights in Avalon, Alabama, football reigns supreme. Quarterback Casey Clinton’s magic arm drives recruiters and his opponents wild. Girls worship him. A preacher’s wife seduces him. Life can’t be any better. But when slick college football recruiters offer the small-town high school player the chance for fame and glory, it’s no longer a game. It’s business. And it’s brutal.  Lavish promises of money, women, and a spot at the top of the football world take Casey into a violent world he could never imagine. Temptation is great. His life spirals out of control. His world crumbles out from under him.  Football is no longer a sport. It’s a fight for survival in a game where everyone but Casey knows how to play. Caleb Pirtle III has spent a lifetime in journalism, writing for newspapers, magazines, and publishing companies. He is a former feature writer for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Chief of Media Relations for Governor John Connally’s Texas Tourist Development Agency, travel editor for Southern Living Magazine, and editorial director for a custom publishing company in Dallas. He is the author of more than sixty-five books, both fiction and nonfiction. He has written a made-for-television movie and two-part mini-series for CBS Television, as well as a made-for-television movie for TNT. He has won the National William Randolph Hearst Award for feature writing, Texas Associated Press Award,Texas Headliner’s Award, Southeastern Library Association Award, Small Press Book Award, and Discover America Award. Cat gives this one 3 Meows...

Casey Clinton is a middle-class high school quarterback with a good arm that got his team into the championships for the first time. But a slip in the mud cost them the wind but not all the colleges from calling and offering him scholarships and more to go to their school. 

Lucas is from the other side of the track, his mother a waitress and prostitute and wide receiver that is just as good as Casey, though no colleges are calling him.

This is a story of both boy's lives and how they deal with their high-school lives coming to an end. There are many more characters involved, his parents, the preacher and his wife, Chelsea, the head cheerleader and Casey's girlfriend and several of the coaches, and their scouts. I think that was my problem with the story was the view-points were in all of these voices and skipped around and not in just Casey and or Lucas' voice. It was a bit overwhelming for me. However, it was a very intriguing story, with some twists and turns and a hold-your-breath type ending.

If you like football, Young Adult, coming of age and stories with some violence and a breath-holding end you will like this. 

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