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3.53 AVERAGE
3.53 AVERAGE
Do you ever finish reading a book and wish you could read it all over again?!
fast-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt
Reasons, in order of importance, which made me download this book:
1. Gorgeous cover
2. Free on KU
3. Mildly interesting synopsis
I’ll admit. I hate sports. Pretty much all of them (though I did used to enjoy playing netball). I don’t follow or fanatically support any kind of team. So what possessed me to pick up a sports romance? Who knows? But I’m so goddamn glad I did.
This is a moving story of two best friends who lose each other when they’re young but somehow find their way back to each other in college.
The story is told from both POV’s, mainly set in the ‘now’ with occasional flashbacks to their childhood.
I connected with Ivy on a level that I never have with any other character, which actually hits closer to home that i quite like.
Ivy has shitty parents. Not horrible, just shitty. The kind of parents who make you feel that guilty/selfish feeling of knowing there are people in the world who have it a lot worse than you but still feeling like you deserve a little more from them. But then you feel like you’re ungrateful for what you do have. I’m lucky enough to to only have one parent like that. Poor Ivy has two, and the more I think about it the more I realise that if I had two also, I probably would have ended up exactly like Ivy.
This story involves a very accurate depiction of a family unit where the marriage is in trouble: the constant yelling, hiding in the dark from the noise and angry voices, and having to parent a younger sibling when the actual parent seemingly can’t be bothered with the responsibility.
Now onto happier things.
I loved Ivy’s snarky personality. It reminded me of Veronica Mars, one of my all time favourite TV characters.
And then there’s our H, Aiden. Talk about a great guy. He’s fiercely protective of his girl while work being majorly respectful of her, what makes for a mighty attractive combination. There are easily identifiable instances of this in the story, but the author also made an interesting subtle choice too when it came to depicting the few instances of oral sex. I noticed that the scene where the H goes down on the h is quite detailed, whereas the scene where the h goes down on the H is pretty much fade to black. The contrast isn’t something I’ve ever seen done in the same story before.
Overall this story made me think, feel and fall in love with the characters.
Trigger warnings as follows (proceed at your own risk):
⚠️Self-harm
⚠️Thoughts of suicide
⚠️Mention of suicide attempt
⚠️Marriage breakdown
1. Gorgeous cover
2. Free on KU
3. Mildly interesting synopsis
I’ll admit. I hate sports. Pretty much all of them (though I did used to enjoy playing netball). I don’t follow or fanatically support any kind of team. So what possessed me to pick up a sports romance? Who knows? But I’m so goddamn glad I did.
This is a moving story of two best friends who lose each other when they’re young but somehow find their way back to each other in college.
The story is told from both POV’s, mainly set in the ‘now’ with occasional flashbacks to their childhood.
I connected with Ivy on a level that I never have with any other character, which actually hits closer to home that i quite like.
Ivy has shitty parents. Not horrible, just shitty. The kind of parents who make you feel that guilty/selfish feeling of knowing there are people in the world who have it a lot worse than you but still feeling like you deserve a little more from them. But then you feel like you’re ungrateful for what you do have. I’m lucky enough to to only have one parent like that. Poor Ivy has two, and the more I think about it the more I realise that if I had two also, I probably would have ended up exactly like Ivy.
This story involves a very accurate depiction of a family unit where the marriage is in trouble: the constant yelling, hiding in the dark from the noise and angry voices, and having to parent a younger sibling when the actual parent seemingly can’t be bothered with the responsibility.
Now onto happier things.
I loved Ivy’s snarky personality. It reminded me of Veronica Mars, one of my all time favourite TV characters.
And then there’s our H, Aiden. Talk about a great guy. He’s fiercely protective of his girl while work being majorly respectful of her, what makes for a mighty attractive combination. There are easily identifiable instances of this in the story, but the author also made an interesting subtle choice too when it came to depicting the few instances of oral sex. I noticed that the scene where the H goes down on the h is quite detailed, whereas the scene where the h goes down on the H is pretty much fade to black. The contrast isn’t something I’ve ever seen done in the same story before.
Overall this story made me think, feel and fall in love with the characters.
Trigger warnings as follows (proceed at your own risk):
⚠️Self-harm
⚠️Thoughts of suicide
⚠️Mention of suicide attempt
⚠️Marriage breakdown
medium-paced
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
lighthearted
sad
tense
medium-paced