A review by breakfastgrey
Swing by Kwame Alexander

2.0

While the end begins to complicate the narrative somewhat, the vast majority of this book is terribly boring. A boy has a crush on a girl but won't tell her. For something like 300 pages. And that's about it. Characters fit pretty neatly into teen romcom tropes--the hobbledehoy lead, his quirky best friend, the perfect girl, the selfish jock she dates--and things go pretty much as smoothly as possible without so much as the smallest wave until the very end where a tsunami comes out of nowhere to destroy everything. I think that's the point, but it doesn't necessarily make for a compelling read.