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The Chase by Elle Kennedy

12 reviews

britwalsh16's review

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emotional funny inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book gave me all the feels!! I just love everything I’ve read from Elle Kennedy so far, & this book is no different. Fitz is an idiot, but when he decides to finally be smart, he dives in with both feet & he finally fights for what he wants!! I love it!! And Summer is stubborn & goes after what she wants, but she’s also smart & knows what she deserves, & if the two clash, she stays true to herself! And the two of them really are meant to be, they bring the best out of each other! I love characters like that. I wish I had someone like that to bring the best out of me. 
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abidavisf's review

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emotional funny hopeful 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

3.75

Summer is joy and light. Her ability to see the good in everything (except perhaps herself) and her will to make friends with everyone is inspiring. The journey she takes during The Chase is beautiful and I can’t wait to read more about her in the rest of this series.

I wish we’d had a bit more Colin in this book. Though he’s a closed off character, I’d hoped that we’d get more from his perspective so we could dive in a bit deeper. Hopefully we see more as the series continues!

The learning disorder visibility is wonderful and so important. Really well done and a huge thank you to Elle Kennedy.
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clareasday's review against another edition

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lighthearted fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

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kirareadssometimes's review against another edition

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funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Has that class is off campus feeling that is just so comfortable to read. All the characters were so fun! A little too much time spent on stuff that felt irrelevant or just entirely separate from the couple. Like too much writing about her class when I’d rather them doing something together. <I was also bummed how things ended with hunter. I know he has his own book in the series but it felt neglectful.> summer was way less stressful than I thought she would be. Sexy and lighthearted but with a touch of real world issues near the end. 
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paris_olivia's review against another edition

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funny lighthearted relaxing fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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ifoundcallie's review against another edition

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lighthearted medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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beckyyreadss's review against another edition

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emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

I wanted to read this book because I wanted to discover more authors this year. Elle Kennedy is everywhere on Tiktok and Instagram. So, I thought I would give her try and I really enjoyed this book. 

This book has two points of views. The first one is Summer Di Laurentis, she is a rich, fun girl who has just been kicked out of Brown university after setting fire to the sorority house. She is now at Briar U, she did have a sorority house lined up, but when she gets there – the head of sorority kicks her out after hearing what she did at Brown. She has nowhere to go and just went she’s lost all hope, her brother Dean, rings her and asks her how she was settling in. Dean says he will call in a favour and get it sorted. So now, Summer is living with his old hockey team, which isn’t the best as she is drawn to Colin Fitzgerald. The second point of view is Colin Fitzgerald, but everyone knows him as Fitz or Fitzy. He is a tattoo-covered, video gaming, hockey-playing nerd-jocks – who hates attention and just wants to play hockey, finish his game, and get his dream job, yet he can’t stop thinking of Summer and it gets even worse when his roommate Hunter claimed dibs on her. Summer thinks Colin thinks she is superficial and that he’s not interested in her, even though there are sparks flying across the room. Summer tells herself she’s not the kind of girl who chases after a man and she’s not about chase after Fitz as she’s got her hands full dealing with a new school, a sleazy professor and an uncertain future. This is an academic sports contemporary new adult romance novel. 

I really liked Summer as a character – I think she is bad-ass and funny and protective of her friends and I’m like that as well, so I liked that. I love the friendship between her, and Brenna and I hope we see more of her soon. I loved Colin – I love that sort of character of yes, I’m jock but I’m a secret nerd and I’m popular and I hate it. I really enjoyed the storyline and the two points of views. This was my first college sport romance book, and I really liked it. I love the relationship between Fitz and Summer, and it gave me the vibe of dramatic girlfriend and calm boyfriend which I find hilarious, but I liked that they helped each other and drove each other crazy. I also liked that they highlighted Summer’s learning disability and how Fitz didn’t see her differently because of it. 

I don’t have anything negative to say about this book, just more of my personal preference of short chapters and the miscommunication trope which happened for about 75% of this book. But it was an easy read and I hope to see more of Summer and Fitz in the next books.
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danaegg's review against another edition

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adventurous hopeful fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

i really enjoyed summer as a main character. she’s bright and extremely feminine and very unapologetic.
was kind of disappointed when u realized there was gonna be a love triangle in this. i understand what it did for the plot but hunter is just so annoying abt it. calling dibs is never going to work. calling dibs doesnt do anything bc she liked the other guy before u anyways??? whatever was happy when that got dropped.
hate to admit it but this got me really excited for brenna’s book and now i have to read it 😭😭. 
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lida_magg's review against another edition

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emotional funny fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

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chrisljm's review against another edition

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fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5

this was so cringy i was threatening to dnf just after the first chapter. it read like really bad fanfiction and i deserve to be compensated by all the people who recommended this book. 

it gets an extra .5 star because i was simply entertained by how bad it was. 
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