Swing
Ratings5
Average rating3.2
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Ratings5
Average rating3.2
Things usually do not go as planned for seventeen-year-old Noah. He and his best friend Walt have just been cut from the high school baseball team for the third year in a row, and it looks like Noah's love interest since fifth grade, Samantha, will never take it past the "best friend" zone.
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He gave the male characters too many traits and interests and the lone female character, and love interest, was not given any traits or personality. After 5 of his books, I would say he struggles with writing female characters well. There was too much going on here and it took a long while to get over the initial silliness of proving how different Walt & Nate are and settling into a story. The abrupt turn at the end seemed to shock people. I saw it coming but it still felt unearned and the brother's character was unexplored. Think if PTSD/war/race trauma was where he wanted to go, then he needed to weed out at least one other element, either baseball, jazz, or the relationship advice/woohoo women. I'm not sure what kids are hanging in past the first few chapters to read this.
