In The Quarterback Next Door Book, there is something that absence and loss of communication do to a relationship. It makes it lose trust and creates dents of doubt and insecurity. Skylar Heron and Jamie Donner were childhood friends. However, it took the sudden absence of Jamie, a little more height and a deeper voice, to cause Skylar’s uncertainty about him.

• Part 1: What Is The Quarterback Next Door Book About?
• Part 2: The Quarterback Next Door Book’s Backstories
• Part 3: Why The Quarterback Next Door Book Is So Popular
• Conclusion

Part 1: What Is The Quarterback Next Door Book About?

1.1 The Set-Up

The Quarterback Next Door Book is a campus romance piece that talks about the fierceness of competition. On campus, if you don’t have it in you, you should go into hiding because the bullies are lurking.

The notorious campus nerd, Skylar Heron, dared to have a crush on the school’s popular quarterback. Did she not know her place? How dare she dream of a chance with someone who was above her level?

Unfortunately for Skylar on a fateful day, the bullies attacked her. During Skylar’s alteration with the bullies, her phone fell. Guess what was discovered on Skylar’s phone? Her screensaver was the picture of the school’s quarterback.

What? Skylar, have you no fear? How dare you use Jamie Donner as your screensaver? The head of the cheerleading team considered herself the owner of the school’s most popular sports boy. As far as she was concerned, he was the top boy, and she was the top girl.

Hello Skylar? Wake up!

Skylar would pay for her boldness by being pushed around. Dreamer! Do you want Jamie Donner? In your wildest dreams. The school’s queen bee had her minions attack Skylar and try to put her in her place.

However, something interesting happened.

1.2 The Twist

Jamie Donner shows up in his glory. ‘’Hey, let her go.’’ Huh? Let who go? Was the most handsome boy in school fighting for the nerd?

‘’Jamie, remember you are my boyfriend.’’ Tiffany, the queen bee could not believe that the school’s quarterback was taking sides with Skylar. He helped her up and tried to put her back together.

Guess what Jamie replied to what Tiffany said?

Jamie said that he was no longer Tiffany’s boyfriend. Oops! Did quarterback Jamie just dump lead cheerleader Tiffany? Or has she always been secretly dumped?

The story would progress to show the students in class with a teacher asking them to pair up. Well, yes, you guessed correctly. Everybody rejected Skylar. The teacher mocked her, saying that she could pair with him.

But just when Skylar was losing hope, and had started to be humiliated, Jamie came to the rescue.

‘’I’ll partner with you,’’ Jamie said while he picked Skylar up after she had been bullied again.

The entire class fell quiet. What was this obsession with Skylar from Jamie? The truth was that Skylar and Jamie had come a long way. They had always been friends since they were kids. It just happened that Jamie moved cities with his father, causing him and Skylar to split ways.

Part 2: The Quarterback Next Door Book’s Backstories

2.1 Theme

Don’t give upon yourself and always keep your head up. That is what beams through The Quarterback Next Door book. Skylar had always known Jamie, so why was she acting as if he had just dropped from heaven?

She brought a lot of her suffering to herself to say the least. Jamie was fond of Skylar when they were younger, and he was still fond of her after they grew up. But Skylar couldn’t see it. Maybe it was because of her ugly glasses in the first place.

Why won’t Tiffany bully her? Skylar would dress to school as if she had no mirror at home. Why won’t Tiffany bully her? The movie makes us understand that Tiffany was not even at all facially attractive. Maybe it was because she was a meanie. Yet she had more confidence than Skylar because she knew what to do.

Ask for Jamie? Well, he was the man of the year in the movie. Most quarterbacks are rumored to be assholes. All the attention that comes with their role on their school’s team can cause them to have a flight of ego.

Nearly no quarterback with sauce would want to have anything to do with Skylar. Well, not Jamie Donner. The young man, the star player of the year, was down-to-earth. He cherished his relationship with Skylar and respected her. The fact that they were childhood friends meant a lot to Jamie.

2.2 Depth Of Plot

One time, Jamie’s house caught fire, and he had to go and live with Skylar next door. He was literally the quarterback next door to nobody but Skylar. Jamie and Skylar were playing catch-up when he realized that his house was burning.

With that being the case, his father asked Skylar’s parents to let him live with them while they fixed the issue. Before even Skylar knew what was happening, Jamie was her housemate. In fact, maybe he was her roommate as well because he was using her bathroom.

It was a dramatic situation when Skylar found out that Jamie was in her house, and in her room. In fact, why was he naked?

The story would take a drastic turn for action and adventure when the nosy Tiffany would go looking for Jamie. But the young man said that they were no longer boyfriend and girlfriend. Why was Tiffany pushing it?

As the cheerleader, she could not imagine herself not being the girlfriend of the school’s most notorious football player. Tiffany still poked into the life of Jamie until she found out just how close he was to Skylar.

Part 3: Why The Quarterback Next Door Book Is So Popular

Campus romance is a popular genre to begin with. The Quarterback Next Door book carries all the elements of a scintillating campus romance piece. The plot is also one that beckons the attention of the viewers.

It is very relatable, this movie. What happened in this movie is literally what happens in every school, and there are exemptions. I guarantee the viewers in a campus setting that while watching this movie, they would tend to see themselves in one or two of the characters.

Howbeit, won’t everyone want to know what happened between Jamie and Skylar at the end of the day? Even if while taking a wild guess, one would imagine that Jamie and Skylar became a romantic pair, how did it unfold?

This sort of movie is every student’s dream life. Even those who are no longer in the stage of life that this movie depicts would tend to want to watch the movie because of flashbacks. ‘’Oh, in my time, it used to be like this.’’ ‘’Oh, I remember how handsome my school’s quarterback looked.’’ ‘’Ah! The queen-bee bully. She was as fierce as this as well.’’

Everyone would reminisce as this exciting movie takes them back to times when they had the world wrapped around their fingers. Such a movie is always a delight to come across.

Campus romance dramas can never go wrong because of the excitement that they bring to the minds of the viewers.

Conclusion

Is there anything else to say about The Quarterback Next Door book? Does the book bring excitement? Yes, it does. Does it trigger memories in the minds of the viewers? Yes, it does. Does the movie somehow allow the viewers to figure out their next step in their school as far as romance is concerned? Let’s face it, it does.

These are a thousand and one elements of the movie that make it worthwhile for the viewers.

Moving on to give props to the director and screenwriter of the movie for a fascinating plot, kudos! They did justice in telling a story that is as realistic as can be.

Also, the characters know their onions, so they represent their roles well. Each character embodies their role so vividly; it is impossible to miss their aura anytime they appear on screen.

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