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A review by janina_reads
Gracie Faltrain Takes Control by Cath Crowley
3.0
Gracie, Gracie, Gracie ... I look forward to seeing you "finally get it right" in the next instalment.
The second book in the series was the hardest for me to read. Doubly hard maybe because this time there are no switching points of view - the reader is alone in Gracie's head. And although Gracie has finally learnt that soccer is indeed a team sport, now other problems await to be solved. Her boyfriend Martin still has no contact to his mom who left the family years ago. Her best friend Alyce is in love with Flemming, but the way she acts he will never notice her. Fortunately, Gracie knows exactly what her friends need and takes matters in her own hands. Her way of "helping" her friends in dire situations made me want to slap her countless times - it is not that she doesn't mean well, but it is impossible for me to see someone run headless into trouble and not even notice there is something going wrong without me wanting to tear my hair out. In this instalment, Gracie has to learn the hard way that her methods are in fact not the right ones, and that only because she sees an easy way out it does not mean that easy way out is there for others as well.
The second book in the series was the hardest for me to read. Doubly hard maybe because this time there are no switching points of view - the reader is alone in Gracie's head. And although Gracie has finally learnt that soccer is indeed a team sport, now other problems await to be solved. Her boyfriend Martin still has no contact to his mom who left the family years ago. Her best friend Alyce is in love with Flemming, but the way she acts he will never notice her. Fortunately, Gracie knows exactly what her friends need and takes matters in her own hands. Her way of "helping" her friends in dire situations made me want to slap her countless times - it is not that she doesn't mean well, but it is impossible for me to see someone run headless into trouble and not even notice there is something going wrong without me wanting to tear my hair out. In this instalment, Gracie has to learn the hard way that her methods are in fact not the right ones, and that only because she sees an easy way out it does not mean that easy way out is there for others as well.