Author: Liz Fichera
Publication date: January 31st 2013
Genre: YA, contemporary, sports
Pages: 368
Get hooked on a girl named Fred... HE said: Fred Oday is a girl? Why is a girl taking my best friends spot on the boy's varsity golf team?SHE said: Can I seriously do this? Can I join the boys' team? Everyone will hate me - especially Ryan Berenger.HE said: Coach expects me to partner with Fred on the green? That is crazy bad. Fred's got to go - especially now that I can't get her out of my head. So not happening.SHE said: Ryan can be nice, when he's not being a jerk. Like the time he carried my golf bag. But the girl from the rez and the spoiled rich boy from the suburbs? So not happening.But there's no denying that things are happening as the girl with the killer swing takes on the boy with the killer smile...
This is a story about Fred, a Native American girl golfer who joins her all boy’s Varsity high school golf team. She gets Seth’s place on the team and he is not happy about that. His best friend, Ryan accepts the fact Seth won’t be joining him again really fast. But Seth can’t let it go even though he is not very good at golf. So he starts to bully Fred at every chance he gets.
What I liked about this story that it’s about sports-golf, to be exact. I don’t know anything about golf so it was refreshing to actually learn something reading YA novels. I thought golf was only for white, bored rich people but I couldn’t be more wrong. Apparently, even girls can play it. Crazy, I know. :P
When I first saw this book on GoodReads I thought Wow, I gotta have this. But when I started reading it it wasn’t what I thought it would be. That is probably my problem, for thinking Fred would stand up for herself when people called her Pocahontas and dirty Indian. I just hate watching people get bullied because I used to be bullied too. But the difference between Fred and me is that I fought back and eventually the scum who tormented me backed away after they saw I wouldn’t put up with their shit.
Also,at times it got a lot of dramatic. All sorts of bad things kept happening to the MC and it went too far. IMO.
When it comes to the romance I was also disappointed and that disappointment is connect with the way I thought Fred would be as a character. Ryan isn’t perfect either but he did man up a couple of times and I respect that. It would be better if we got more of Fred and Ryan scenes where they would talk and get to know each other better but those scenes kind of faded into black.
Hmm, it's always a shame when a book turns out to be different than you expect. One thing I like is that this girl is named Fred (I wouldn't name my daughter like that, but it's refreshing :p) and it's always fun to learn something new while reading. Nice review!
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Well, I now know to lower my expectations a bit. I got this one as well and was hoping for a nice romance. I guess we'll see. Wonderful review Zemira. :)
ReplyDeleteI really liked it, but I agree with what you said about Fred. I also felt like Ryan could have done more to help her. I really enjoyed the golfing scenes, those totally made the book!
ReplyDeleteIt felt somehow a little bit dry. It lacked depth that would make me love it more. But I will read the sequel since I there aren't many sports novels out there.
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