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A review by alongreader
Break the Fall by Jennifer Iacopelli
4.0
Young gymnast Audrey is on the verge of achieving everything she's ever wanted. She's just made the Olympic team. An accusation against the team coach rocks them all just as training really ramps up, forcing them to pull together or risk losing everything they've worked for.
There's a Venn diagram out there somewhere, with one circle labeled 'People who read YA' and the other labelled 'People who know about competitive gymnastics'. I'm sure there's quite a large overlap in the middle. Sadly, I'm not in it. I tried looking up some of the terms for movements used in this book, but it was breaking my concentration on the story, so I mentally inserted 'twirl' everywhere a term I didn't know was used.
My copy was a proof, so maybe there'll be a glossary in the genuine article to explain some of these things. I couldn't even figure out the scoring. People were scoring thirteen point eights and fourteen point twos happily, so I thought must be out of fifteen. Then someone scored a fifteen point three...
In terms of the accusation, it's kind of glossed over, since they all have more important things to worry about. It left me with a story that I enjoyed reading, but has vanished away like candy floss now. A good read, but not a great one.
(I did love the way all the female teams rallied together to show support and cheer each other on; that was lovely and it's raised my rating by a star.)
There's a Venn diagram out there somewhere, with one circle labeled 'People who read YA' and the other labelled 'People who know about competitive gymnastics'. I'm sure there's quite a large overlap in the middle. Sadly, I'm not in it. I tried looking up some of the terms for movements used in this book, but it was breaking my concentration on the story, so I mentally inserted 'twirl' everywhere a term I didn't know was used.
My copy was a proof, so maybe there'll be a glossary in the genuine article to explain some of these things. I couldn't even figure out the scoring. People were scoring thirteen point eights and fourteen point twos happily, so I thought must be out of fifteen. Then someone scored a fifteen point three...
In terms of the accusation, it's kind of glossed over, since they all have more important things to worry about. It left me with a story that I enjoyed reading, but has vanished away like candy floss now. A good read, but not a great one.
(I did love the way all the female teams rallied together to show support and cheer each other on; that was lovely and it's raised my rating by a star.)