![]() It was even more awkward than the Hush Hush series, and that is saying a lot. Really this story could have been infinitely better if she had a proper editor. “Dan met Neil afterward and escorted Neil across campus to Fox Tower.” If she met Neil afterward, it pretty obvious who she is escorting across campus, mm? There’s a lot of awkward and stumbly sentences, I found myself having to read them over and over to understand it. and just uses their names 5 times in a single sentence. ![]() It appears that sometimes Nora forgets the words him/his/he. The prose is such an issue for me, a big factor as to why I give a lower rating. They are unique and interesting and she gives just enough info to get the point across but makes you hungry for more info. Really though, the characters are all I enjoyed about this book. And as annoying as Nicky is, I’m happy to have some sort of lgbt+ rep in YA fiction. He’s a danger to himself and everyone else. Also someone with issues that bad who has said he doesn’t care should/could never be on a team. I have some real concerns about this psychiatrist if she’s prescribing Andrew something that makes him spazzy for a few short hours and then he goes into full withdraws and wants to murder everyone. ![]() Their mental issues aren’t very realistic, more just concentrated stereotypes. But even coming from troubled pasts, hardly any of them seem like athletes. I’m amazed that the author was able to keep the character’s straight, it’s the one thing going for her. He could easily hitch a ride to an island country or literally anywhere, buy himself a house, and still have enough to live off of for a good while. Who’s paying for his school? He sure isn’t, and why would they give a full ride to some unproven kid? He’s on the run for his life but loves this dumb sport so much that he signs on to play college sports that will be airing on tv. And where are the RAs? Someone could go off and murder someone on the team and the kids are expected to deal with it themselves.Īlso, here’s Neil over here with a quarter million dollars living like a hobo. How the hell does the school keep funding this nonsense? They have the funding to build a state of the art stadium for a garbage team who never makes it anywhere. Coach hears about a troubled kid and immediately signs him on, doesn’t really care about how well he can play. The whole set up doesn’t even make sense. He doesn’t give a shit that his team is drinking underage and doing drugs constantly. To make matters worse, coach is banging both the team doctor and the psychiatrist. After Neil gets drugged, he pulls Andrew to his office but doesn’t do anything? Neil and Andrew work their shit out sort of in German so coach doesn’t even know what’s going on, then lets them leave without another word. He gives them a place to live but otherwise doesn’t care. He’s made out to be this great guy who takes in all the hard cases and builds them to be something, but he doesn’t. He’s never even at practice? He lets the players do their thing and wale on each other and just doesn’t care. The coach seems spaced out and detached most of the time since he never actually does anything during practice. She even stated that no teams wanted girls for the first few years, so why not just make a women's league? Isn’t that usually what happens? It’s convenient. Leagues are split into genders to make it more balanced. The team dynamics are a mess, and making it co-ed is a little bit of a stretch for the type of sport it seems to be. ![]() The way she explains the sport is like an afterthought, “its a Frankenstein mash-up of a couple different sports but it’s hella popular you gotta believe me”. I don’t think the author has ever really played team sports, most definitely not in as high a level as the kids in this book. But I digress because somehow I feel like I know more than the author about sports.Įxy is a mess. You know, you save your own ass and don’t have to rely on anyone else. I hated sports, and I hated people who played them, and I hated people who watched them, and I hated people who didn’t hate people who watched or played them.” I’m someone who is more into individual sports, swimming, gymnastics, skating, equine. As John Green so eloquently put it in Looking for Alaska, “I hated sports. I never associate with team sports, so I was definitely wary. I picked this up because I see it’s fandom crossover with the TRC fandom a lot and had to know what the deal is. Posted on Thursday with 0 notes, 3 years ago
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