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Our Best Shot
by A.M. Williams
3.5 stars
I was excited to read a hockey romance. There have been some good ones coming out lately, and this one had a lot of things about the story that sounded really good. The story started off really good, had my attention grabbed really quickly, and I sped through almost the whole first half. I really liked the characters and the story was unique in many ways.
While some dialog had been a little off or awkward as the story got going, it was not enough to disrupt me. About halfway through though, the first steamy scene though, that wasn’t the best for me. Again, it started a little bit awkwardly, and I kind of skimmed through it to get on with the story. As we got closer to the end, I started having a few other issues. I felt like the reasons for certain issues between our main characters were a little bit forced or didn’t make sense. It wasn’t just the drama for drama sake that normally bugs me, sometimes I just didn’t get it.
The villains in the story, while we got an explanation for why one of them was the way they were, kind of anyway, the other didn’t really make a ton of sense in how they behaved. I also had a little bit of an issue with Rory being as against letting people know who she was. While I understood her college issue causing her shyness or cautiousness about some things, it didn’t make sense in the long run. I mean I know LOTS of YA authors, not personally, but from following them on social media or attending events where they were speaking, and they were high school teachers or librarians. If she’d written something like romance, the type I read, or something that could be controversial, I could have seen more of how she behaved.
In the end, some of the issues I had were more to do with things I noticed from my writer’s viewpoint, things that I’ve had people point out about my own writing, or talk about when I read books on the craft or attend classes, etc. about writing. So I tried not to include that in this review. I really just wanted to talk about the things I thought as a reader.
Overall the story itself was enough to get me past most of the issues I had, the characters and the plot won out and made it a good read overall.
Review first posted on Lisa Loves Literature.
I was excited to read a hockey romance. There have been some good ones coming out lately, and this one had a lot of things about the story that sounded really good. The story started off really good, had my attention grabbed really quickly, and I sped through almost the whole first half. I really liked the characters and the story was unique in many ways.
While some dialog had been a little off or awkward as the story got going, it was not enough to disrupt me. About halfway through though, the first steamy scene though, that wasn’t the best for me. Again, it started a little bit awkwardly, and I kind of skimmed through it to get on with the story. As we got closer to the end, I started having a few other issues. I felt like the reasons for certain issues between our main characters were a little bit forced or didn’t make sense. It wasn’t just the drama for drama sake that normally bugs me, sometimes I just didn’t get it.
The villains in the story, while we got an explanation for why one of them was the way they were, kind of anyway, the other didn’t really make a ton of sense in how they behaved. I also had a little bit of an issue with Rory being as against letting people know who she was. While I understood her college issue causing her shyness or cautiousness about some things, it didn’t make sense in the long run. I mean I know LOTS of YA authors, not personally, but from following them on social media or attending events where they were speaking, and they were high school teachers or librarians. If she’d written something like romance, the type I read, or something that could be controversial, I could have seen more of how she behaved.
In the end, some of the issues I had were more to do with things I noticed from my writer’s viewpoint, things that I’ve had people point out about my own writing, or talk about when I read books on the craft or attend classes, etc. about writing. So I tried not to include that in this review. I really just wanted to talk about the things I thought as a reader.
Overall the story itself was enough to get me past most of the issues I had, the characters and the plot won out and made it a good read overall.
Review first posted on Lisa Loves Literature.