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A review by liralen
Winning Team by Alicia Thompson, Dominique Moceanu
3.0
Your basic middle-grade gymnastics novel. This was actually a sight better than I'd expected—the (primary) author was a gymnast (an Olympic gymnast) herself, so she knows what she's talking about on that end, but my expectations for the writing were not high.
Anyway, the basic premise is that Brittany's parents have moved from Ohio to Texas to further Brittany's career as a gymnast—without seeking Brittany's input, apparently, although otherwise seem mostly reasonable. So Brittany's the new girl on the team, and good grief that child cannot keep her foot out of her mouth. Really, we're looking at surgical removal.
It worked fine for a book of this length and difficulty, but had it gone on much longer I think it would been a bit tiring—not tiresome, mind, but tiring. So much twelve-year-old-girl drama. (I do not miss being twelve. I miss ten-into-eleven even less—I had no friends that year—but, nope. I'll keep adulting, thanks.) Lots of gymnastics, too, which is nice—it's more than just the basic premise—but so. much. drama.
(And yet...of course I'll read the rest of the series, sooner or later.)
Anyway, the basic premise is that Brittany's parents have moved from Ohio to Texas to further Brittany's career as a gymnast—without seeking Brittany's input, apparently, although otherwise seem mostly reasonable. So Brittany's the new girl on the team, and good grief that child cannot keep her foot out of her mouth. Really, we're looking at surgical removal.
It worked fine for a book of this length and difficulty, but had it gone on much longer I think it would been a bit tiring—not tiresome, mind, but tiring. So much twelve-year-old-girl drama. (I do not miss being twelve. I miss ten-into-eleven even less—I had no friends that year—but, nope. I'll keep adulting, thanks.) Lots of gymnastics, too, which is nice—it's more than just the basic premise—but so. much. drama.
(And yet...of course I'll read the rest of the series, sooner or later.)