We Got the Beat

"i have a bunch of problems with this book, first of all the main character jordan is honestly a bit of a brat, like i understand that she went through a lot of bad things but after mack’s apologizing and making a effort but you constantly make jabs at her, your no better then she was. This book is honestly supper hard to read also, the word “ nemesis” as it was used honestly made me want to put the book down and cringe, and i honestly think that the author maybe did a couple days of research of volleyball terms and didn’t really watch any matches or videos as, the words” bump” and “spike” make me cringe as a volleyball player, also serveing takes time, you don’t just have a “killer serve” without putting in effort for the game without having any interest , we also don’t know exactly what the girls positioning is, they say mack serves so that would mean she’s back middle but then suddenly she’s a setter? that’s something that i just can’t understand. and the fact that the characters are supposed to be in a modern day setting, but no teenager would ever act like it, but the constant fact that jordan keeps bringing up that she’s a “nerd ” frustrates me. if this is for 12 and up, i truly don’t think it is in todays society this is for 9 and up. i tried to annotate but i truly just gave up. 4/10 for volleyball as i usually can’t find romance books of it. no hate to the creator, i just do not like the book."

"This book was a worthy sapphic high school romance, but there were some issues that let it down. I’ll say the things I liked first: for starters, there was a school newspaper involved, which I love seeing in a book. Second, we got more focus on the main character’s parents than in other YA books, which is great. Plus, there were coming out themes, which I loved, and Mackenzie and Jordan worked out really well as a couple. The main issue with this book was a huge one. It has one of my least favorite romance tropes- right after the characters are starting to fall for each other, a huge incident happens and for a long time they become mad at each other, and the book ends right after the characters make up with each other. It really dragged the book down, and I would have wanted an extra chapter or two of Mack and Jordan being a couple. And when compared to other sapphic romances in high school settings, this one felt a little generic, both with the idea of the story and the execution. But the final book turned out to be pretty good. This book was enjoyable, but for me it wasn’t a new favorite."