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A review by bookswtheo
Running With Lions by Julian Winters
5.0
I received an ARC from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Okay, so before I read this book I was kind of afraid I wasn't going to love it because quite frankly, I'm not the biggest soccer fan. So that being said I didn't expect to be so hooked and invested in the story. I didn't intend to become so addicted and so attached to this world, and oh look, now I'm here. It's kind of ridiculous how I dragged reading the book because I didn't want it to end. I didn't want to say goodbye to these amazing characters.
What really caught my attention at first was its cover. This cast of characters is so diverse and it has so much LGBTQ´+ rep. Our main character is bisexual, and a lot of people in his team (including his coach) are gay. We have Hispanic and Muslim rep and the author of this character is both black and LGBT as well. This was such an amazing fluffy read and it was exactly what I needed to get into the summer spirit (also uh the world cup is going on, so reading about soccer is just great). I'd definitely recommend this book and I'm sure I'll re-read it sometime in the future.
Okay, so before I read this book I was kind of afraid I wasn't going to love it because quite frankly, I'm not the biggest soccer fan. So that being said I didn't expect to be so hooked and invested in the story. I didn't intend to become so addicted and so attached to this world, and oh look, now I'm here. It's kind of ridiculous how I dragged reading the book because I didn't want it to end. I didn't want to say goodbye to these amazing characters.
What really caught my attention at first was its cover. This cast of characters is so diverse and it has so much LGBTQ´+ rep. Our main character is bisexual, and a lot of people in his team (including his coach) are gay. We have Hispanic and Muslim rep and the author of this character is both black and LGBT as well. This was such an amazing fluffy read and it was exactly what I needed to get into the summer spirit (also uh the world cup is going on, so reading about soccer is just great). I'd definitely recommend this book and I'm sure I'll re-read it sometime in the future.