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All Lined Up by Cora Carmack
5.0
*** CAUTION: MAY CONTAINS SPOILERS***
(I really only insert that warning because I'm fairly new to reviewing books and sometimes when describing a book, I don't know when I'm saying too much, or which details to leave out... so, yes. Bare with me)
Oh gosh, this book. I did not expect to love it as much as I did (do?). It caught my eye because it's football related, and I'm a HUGE football junkie, so of course I want to read it. That and I heard really great things about the author, Cora Carmack, and after reading her book Losing It, last week, I wanted to give another book of hers a try, and boy, this did not disappoint.
I've been a new adult kick this new year, for some reason. This is the third I've read this year and I'm pretty proud of myself. I was hesitant to read anything in that category for fear it would be like soft porn, but so far, it hasn't been like that at all. All Lined up is about a college girl named Dallas Cole who has grow up around football her entire life. Her father is a legendary head coach in Texas and has an ex-boyfriend who was a star quarterback in high school, so football was the last thing she wanted to be a part of going into college. That is until she meets a guy named Carson McClain who knows nothing BUT football and whose main focus was becoming a football star as he was heading into college. Dallas pretty much has her future all planned out until Carson comes around and interrupts everything she had going. We go on to find out if the attraction they both obviously have to each other becomes more and if they are willing to risk losing it all to be with each other.
I loved this book because of how much we had in common. When I started college, I had my life planned out. Actually, when I was 12 I had my life planned out. I didn't go to the my top university choice because of my dad, so I settled for something closer to home. While Dallas is an only child, and I'm second of five children, I am the only girl and my relationship with my dad wasn't as strained as hers was with her dad, but I know I was the main one of my brothers to cause his grey hair to come in sooner than it was supposed to. But the most important detail of Dallas that I was able to completely comprehend is how she was able to fall in love with someone so unexpectedly but still be open to this abrupt change in her life. "And out of all the plans I've made for my life, falling in love was the one thing didn't envision, the only thing you can't really plan for." That pretty much put the cherry on top of a delicious sundae of a book.
Because I felt I was so close to this character, I was able to feel her emotions and even cry during those heartfelt moments with her dad, and she didn't have a mom growing up and neither did I (for the same reasons) and I am just crazy over this book right now, I feel like I am suffering from a book hangover, because I seriously don't want to start the sequel, "All Broke Down". After reading the synopsis, I'm hesitant in going with the story and not being able to relate to the newer characters. I loved this book, I really really REALLY do, so much so that I'm willing to look past the setting of the book (Texas?) I'm by no means a country girl, my heart is in the city, and that was a slight turn off in the beginning. But after getting to know Dallas, I didn't care. Oh! And she's a dancer! I'm not a professional dancer, but I dabbled in it all through college, but I knew my career wasn't going to be in dance, so I gave that up to major in Journalism/broadcasting. But dance is still near and dear to my heart. My dad even has multiple home videos of me dancing in diapers! To 80s music no less!
But anyway, I definitely recommend this book if you're interested in college football (thought it's not a huge factor) or if you're looking for a romantic, sweet, swoon-worthy contemporary new adult book.
(I really only insert that warning because I'm fairly new to reviewing books and sometimes when describing a book, I don't know when I'm saying too much, or which details to leave out... so, yes. Bare with me)
Oh gosh, this book. I did not expect to love it as much as I did (do?). It caught my eye because it's football related, and I'm a HUGE football junkie, so of course I want to read it. That and I heard really great things about the author, Cora Carmack, and after reading her book Losing It, last week, I wanted to give another book of hers a try, and boy, this did not disappoint.
I've been a new adult kick this new year, for some reason. This is the third I've read this year and I'm pretty proud of myself. I was hesitant to read anything in that category for fear it would be like soft porn, but so far, it hasn't been like that at all. All Lined up is about a college girl named Dallas Cole who has grow up around football her entire life. Her father is a legendary head coach in Texas and has an ex-boyfriend who was a star quarterback in high school, so football was the last thing she wanted to be a part of going into college. That is until she meets a guy named Carson McClain who knows nothing BUT football and whose main focus was becoming a football star as he was heading into college. Dallas pretty much has her future all planned out until Carson comes around and interrupts everything she had going. We go on to find out if the attraction they both obviously have to each other becomes more and if they are willing to risk losing it all to be with each other.
I loved this book because of how much we had in common. When I started college, I had my life planned out. Actually, when I was 12 I had my life planned out. I didn't go to the my top university choice because of my dad, so I settled for something closer to home. While Dallas is an only child, and I'm second of five children, I am the only girl and my relationship with my dad wasn't as strained as hers was with her dad, but I know I was the main one of my brothers to cause his grey hair to come in sooner than it was supposed to. But the most important detail of Dallas that I was able to completely comprehend is how she was able to fall in love with someone so unexpectedly but still be open to this abrupt change in her life. "And out of all the plans I've made for my life, falling in love was the one thing didn't envision, the only thing you can't really plan for." That pretty much put the cherry on top of a delicious sundae of a book.
Because I felt I was so close to this character, I was able to feel her emotions and even cry during those heartfelt moments with her dad, and she didn't have a mom growing up and neither did I (for the same reasons) and I am just crazy over this book right now, I feel like I am suffering from a book hangover, because I seriously don't want to start the sequel, "All Broke Down". After reading the synopsis, I'm hesitant in going with the story and not being able to relate to the newer characters. I loved this book, I really really REALLY do, so much so that I'm willing to look past the setting of the book (Texas?) I'm by no means a country girl, my heart is in the city, and that was a slight turn off in the beginning. But after getting to know Dallas, I didn't care. Oh! And she's a dancer! I'm not a professional dancer, but I dabbled in it all through college, but I knew my career wasn't going to be in dance, so I gave that up to major in Journalism/broadcasting. But dance is still near and dear to my heart. My dad even has multiple home videos of me dancing in diapers! To 80s music no less!
But anyway, I definitely recommend this book if you're interested in college football (thought it's not a huge factor) or if you're looking for a romantic, sweet, swoon-worthy contemporary new adult book.