Review: A Must Read!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 7, 2013
Tennis. I love it!!! I am in fact an absolute sports freak. Whenever I read a book it is more often than not that I picture tennis players as the characters. I'm not sure why or how that started, but I suppose it simply came from my love of the game.Game. Set. Match is set mostly at OBX Tennis Academy and on the courts of the tennis tour and is told from the perspective of our three main leading females, Penny, Jasmine and Indy, and is a book bursting with the competitiveness of sport, the richness of friendships and the possibilites of not just one romance but three.I have to say that I'm having a really hard time choosing whose team I'm on. All three girls are awesome!! At first I really had no like for Jasmine at all. She is abrupt and quite full of her own self importance and I just didn't connect with her at all. But as the story progressed I began to get her more and more and by the time I had finished reading I loved her. Penny is just sweet and caring. She was a great friend. And then there is Indy who tells it like it is. I think with Indy you always know where you stand with her. And she was just so down to earth. If I was really pressed to choose a team, I think I would sway towards Indy. I think her journey was the one that I connected to the most.As for our male interests, the two that stood out for me were Jack and Alex. For almost all of the book I was Team Alex. British, tattooed and perceived as a bad boy. That right there is my perfect book boyfriend. I was drawn to him from the get go. But he is so much deeper than what we first think. He is just perfect.And then on the other side of the net is Jack. He was withdrawn and distant for most of the book. But he has his reasons. Once he decided to let go he was OMG swoony!!! So, can I be incredibly greedy and just have both Alex and Jack because it would just be cruel to make me give up one of them... No? Oh, okay... then I'm going to give my heart to Alex. But I definitely want to spend more time getting to know Jack.And if all of that wasn't enough then there is the tennis. I loved every bit of that!! The practices, the training, the matches, the competition between the players. It was a prominent part of the story but never overpowered all the other aspects. So even if you are not a keen tennis fan you will still fall in love with the characters and the story.Everything fit and blended together perfectly and seamlessly throughout the story. One thing didn't overpower the other. The tennis, the romance, the angst and the fantastic writing of Jennifer Iacopelli make Game. Set. Match. a must read.I was gifted this book for an honest review.