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A review by hannahswiv
The Cactus League by Emily Nemens
3.0
I wish I liked this book as much as I want to!
On the positive side, it’s a very well observed and very unromantic set of stories about the world around baseball, and I really enjoyed that about it. However the structure and way of telling the story by moving ‘around’ the central character of Jason didn’t quite work for me. It left too much of a hole around the heart of the novel and meant the resolution (even while it joins up the stories) didn’t emotionally work for me as much as I’d want.
On the positive side, it’s a very well observed and very unromantic set of stories about the world around baseball, and I really enjoyed that about it. However the structure and way of telling the story by moving ‘around’ the central character of Jason didn’t quite work for me. It left too much of a hole around the heart of the novel and meant the resolution (even while it joins up the stories) didn’t emotionally work for me as much as I’d want.