Released: December 1, 2011
Publisher: Scourebooks Fire
Pages: 281
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Reviewed by: Carey
Synopsis: What girl doesn't want to be surrounded by gorgeous jocks day in and day out? Jordan Woods isn't just surrounded by hot guys, though-she leads them as the captain and quarterback of her high school football team. They all see her as one of the guys and that's just fine. As long as she gets her athletic scholarship to a powerhouse university.
But everything she's ever worked for is threatened when Ty Green moves to her school. Not only is he an amazing QB, but he's also amazingly hot. And for the first time, Jordan's feeling vulnerable. Can she keep her head in the game while her heart's on the line?
Review:
I. Loved. This. Book.
I could only think of one
complaint about this book, one little thing that I didn’t like, and that’s
the fact that Tyler Green pissed me off. I get why he’s so controlling. I mean, I would be too if my
dad was killed in a car accident, also leaving my mother paralyzed. But he just
came into the Hundred Oak’s school and
expected everyone to follow his orders, including Jordan. I also thought the
relationship between Jordan and Ty was so unnecessary. It’s one thing to be distracted because he’s so hot and everything, but I feel like the
relationship was so unnecessary.
What I also didn’t like was that realistic for Jordan to
freaking sleep with him the day after kissing him for the first time. And also
that three days after that, all of the sudden she’s
in love with her best friend, Sam Henry, and it was only because she found out
that he loves her. That irritated me, too.
Otherwise, I loved this book.
I loved that Jordan, who had always been one
of the guys, finally realized that she truly wasn’t one of the guys, but that she also wasn’t going to let anyone, even her dream school,
tell her that she can’t play football
because she’s a girl.
That’s what I think this book is so great. Kenneally writes about the fact girls
shouldn’t let people put them down just because they’re a girl. Nobody should let people put them
down because of something like that. It doesn’t
matter if you’re a girl or a boy, fat or skinny, tall or
short, gay or straight, black or white, et cetera. As long as you’re doing something you love, it shouldn’t matter. Don’t
let people put you down because of anything.
And that is why this book got
4.5 stars from me. Jordan stood up for herself. She wasn’t going to let Ty tell her what to do, who to
hang out with, that she should stop playing ball. She wasn’t even going to let her own father tell her to stop
playing. Jordan stood up for herself because she loved what she was doing and
it shouldn’t matter that she’s
a girl. If only everybody could be like that. It's a great lesson.
PS: I don’t know what it is about the cover, but I just
love it so much. Although, I can’t
help but wonder who the boy is that is holding Jordan’s hand: Ty or Henry?
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