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A review by quinn_0611
All Played Out by Cora Carmack
4.0
As someone who really never wants to be the center of attention, I wasn’t really sure what to expect of All Played Out by Cora Carmack, a book about a life-of-the-party football player, but oh my gosh, I just fell in love with this book and the football player hard and fast! All Played Out was a fantastic read, one I couldn’t put down.
All Played Out is about Mateo Torres and Nell DeLuca. Torres we’ve met before in the other Rusk University books. He’s loud, he’s the life of the party, and he’s always up for a good time. Nell, on the other hand, has been solely concentrating on her studies, and has therefore missed out on a lot of the normal college experiences. Nell decides she wants to try out some of these normal college experiences, and Torres gets involved.
I will admit that I had a bit of a hard time making a connection to Nell, initially. I thought I would be able to identify with her easily, because it sounded like she was a lot like me. But being in her head at the beginning wasn’t working that well for me. Luckily, a little into the story I did form a connection to Nell, and I was absolutely reveling in the growth she had.
Torres, though, I just loved him from the get go, which turned out to be a bit of a surprise. Like I mentions above, those sort of attention getting people are just too much for my introverted self. But that wasn’t so with Mateo. I fell so hard for Mateo it’s kind of ridiculous. He might be my favorite Carmack boy, and that’s saying something.
The romance was pretty darn swoony and totally sucked me. I was a bit nervous at first, because Torres kept saying that Nell reminded him of a past girl friend, and I did not like that. But Carmack handled it brilliantly, and I was 100% rooting for these two to get together and stay together.
There were a few things that took me out of the story a bit, though. All Played Out is told in alternating POVs between Torres and Nell, and sometimes these guys would have these long inner dialogues that didn’t quite ring true to me. But nonetheless, I still gobbled up this book. All Played Out is a great book if you’re looking for something sweet and swoony. I'm already looking forward the next Rusk University book!
All Played Out is about Mateo Torres and Nell DeLuca. Torres we’ve met before in the other Rusk University books. He’s loud, he’s the life of the party, and he’s always up for a good time. Nell, on the other hand, has been solely concentrating on her studies, and has therefore missed out on a lot of the normal college experiences. Nell decides she wants to try out some of these normal college experiences, and Torres gets involved.
I will admit that I had a bit of a hard time making a connection to Nell, initially. I thought I would be able to identify with her easily, because it sounded like she was a lot like me. But being in her head at the beginning wasn’t working that well for me. Luckily, a little into the story I did form a connection to Nell, and I was absolutely reveling in the growth she had.
Torres, though, I just loved him from the get go, which turned out to be a bit of a surprise. Like I mentions above, those sort of attention getting people are just too much for my introverted self. But that wasn’t so with Mateo. I fell so hard for Mateo it’s kind of ridiculous. He might be my favorite Carmack boy, and that’s saying something.
The romance was pretty darn swoony and totally sucked me. I was a bit nervous at first, because Torres kept saying that Nell reminded him of a past girl friend, and I did not like that. But Carmack handled it brilliantly, and I was 100% rooting for these two to get together and stay together.
There were a few things that took me out of the story a bit, though. All Played Out is told in alternating POVs between Torres and Nell, and sometimes these guys would have these long inner dialogues that didn’t quite ring true to me. But nonetheless, I still gobbled up this book. All Played Out is a great book if you’re looking for something sweet and swoony. I'm already looking forward the next Rusk University book!