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A review by mwbuell
Training Camp by Wesley King
4.0
Okay, I have a lot of thoughts on this one. I LOVED so many things about it. I love the characters. I love how it’s about basketball but that it’s a fantasy novel. I love the setting, the city they live in, and how SOMEHOW they are going to turn it around. I LOVE the characters!!! I love how deeply you get to know them and how different their personal adversities are.
This book is really a masterpiece. You put sports, fantasy, and vulnerable stories together to get an amazing novel.
My only hang up with it was how it was told. It took me a LONG time to get through this one. I think the perspectives of different players were important and added to the value of the story. But it was just a little too repetitive. I sometimes felt like I knew exactly what was going to happen next, even down to who was going to say what. I wonder if this story could have been told better in chronological order, but with individual chapters from different characters’ perspectives. If it was hard, at times, for me to get through as an adult, I can imagine it would be even tougher for kids… which is so unfortunate because it is a one-of-a-kind story with amazing potential!
That being said, I’m glad the author chose to tell the sequel from one perspective, and I am excited to read it.
This book is really a masterpiece. You put sports, fantasy, and vulnerable stories together to get an amazing novel.
My only hang up with it was how it was told. It took me a LONG time to get through this one. I think the perspectives of different players were important and added to the value of the story. But it was just a little too repetitive. I sometimes felt like I knew exactly what was going to happen next, even down to who was going to say what. I wonder if this story could have been told better in chronological order, but with individual chapters from different characters’ perspectives. If it was hard, at times, for me to get through as an adult, I can imagine it would be even tougher for kids… which is so unfortunate because it is a one-of-a-kind story with amazing potential!
That being said, I’m glad the author chose to tell the sequel from one perspective, and I am excited to read it.