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Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood
3.0

What I liked: That Malory starts to play chess to help finacially support her family. I loved that her Chess mates tried there best to convince Mal to come back and play her last chess tournmant. I also loved that her family found our that she was playing chess again and supported her. They went to her last game. I loved that her family excpeted her.

What I disliked: That the author played it safe and turned this into a young adult book. Even though it is also listed as New Adult I think it should have been listed diffrently. The author writes about sex and quotes " An Erotic fanfiction of Percy Jackson having sex with a hippocampus". I belived that was very uncalled for due to the fact that Percy Jackson is a young adult book series that people are still fans of. I also found thart quote very distrubing. I also didnt like how the author was trying to be super trendy with everything Gen Z likes.

Notes:
Remove any erotic fanfictions
If you are going to talk about sex don't put it out on display throughout the book
When talking about ones Trama try and find copeing mechanisms that are to triggering for younger readers
Lable the genre of the book based on what the story is mainly about.