Reviews - Rez Ball | The StoryGraph

268 reviews for:

Rez Ball

Byron Graves

4.12 AVERAGE

serenashar's review against another edition

4.0

3.5

good book but i didn't get any of the basketball stuff lol

el_hill's review against another edition

3.75

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Content Warnings

adriiibean's review against another edition

4.0

i didn’t think it would be my cup of tea but honestly not bad. devastated they didn’t win

masterofmusix's review

4.0

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This is adorable and exciting and made me emotional. The romance subplot is a little predictable though.

typo27's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional inspiring fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

library_ann's review against another edition

4.0

medium-paced

Realistic fiction. Usually not my thing, but this is a sports book, and the Red Lake Warriors have a goal of taking the basketball team all the way to state this year. There's some romance drama (it is high school after all), and some excessive partying (ditto). The main kid, Tre, is a sweet boy, and he and his family are still working through the grief left by his brother's death in a car accident. I couldn't necessarily always picture what was going on during the games as described, but I could still feel the tension like I was there rooting for the Warriors. And if you don't like sportsball, those parts are easy to skim through to get back to the relationship stuff. Because even without Tre being in a direct romance, he and his teammates still have to work together, and there are some big personalities there, leading to some big confrontations (although not quite as big as you might expect).

ryanne_osburn's review

3.75

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

kit24's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I picked this book up ahead of a book fest in which Graves is the keynote speaker. This book really digs into life on the reservation and the role that basketball plays for not just kids, but the whole community. The characters move through powerful moments of growth, struggle, and triumph and it's all balances with a measaured humor that reminds us that life isn't easy, in fact it downright sucks sometimes, but there is a balance there that helps us find our way through.

saradi1018's review against another edition

3.5

emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

stephpotatapiggy's review against another edition

2.0

emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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