Argh, I hate to say it because I loved [b:The Crossover|18263725|The Crossover|Kwame Alexander|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1390427593s/18263725.jpg|25723388] soo much and I know it would be hard for another book to live up to that, but for me this one didn't. For one thing--in The Crossover I loved how organic and natural the novel in verse format felt. In this one it felt like a lot of conversations were being written down with weird line breaks and being called poems? But some of them do work really well, it just didn't seem as consistently amazing as The Crossover.

Also it felt like it was like...trying to hard to have a message that books are cool and librarians are cool? Which of course, they are and we are ;) IDK I feel like it might be a bit of a turn-off to some kids.

STILL: I enjoyed reading it and certainly some kids, esp fans of soccer and/or novels in verse, should also appreciate it.