Book Review: Breakaway - Grace Reilly (Potential Spoilers)
Rating: 🌗 - .5/5 Title: Breakaway Author: Grace Reilly
Description: Cooper is one heck of a hockey player and his main goal is to become the captain in his junior year and finally make his dad proud. What's standing in his way is his temper and his fighting, so when the coach [Ryder], tells him that he needs to volunteer with the kids and teach them how to skate to really look deep inside of himself to learn what matters and how to keep his cool, he's not for it. Cooper just thinks that he needs to get laid and he'll be good. Enter Penny Ryder. She's the other volunteer and she's struggling on her own. Allowing her past to follow her, her secret list is all she's aiming to complete, and who better than a stranger on her dad's hockey team to help her complete it. Once whisper in his ear and some alone time in a supply closet really does do wonders.
Reason for Rating: This book was boring to say the least. When I first started reading it, it was great! There was a lot of character development, description, and you could really relate to the characters, but that just dragged on the whole book. It wasn't until I was 90% through when there was some "drama" and I put that in quotations to use it super loosely because it wasn't even really drama. Not only that, but the secret that Penny was keeping and freaking out about I think was mentioned too much and harped on to have it end up being the secret that it was. The whole book was anti-climactic, slow, but at the same time rushed, and in my honest opinion, boring. If you're wanting a YA book, it's a bit detailed during the sex parts to be classified as that, but that's the type of story it is, YA young love. I almost forgot that these people were in college and not Freshmen in high school.
