Review: I think I liked it ....
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 11, 2013
This was a weird book for me. I think I mostly liked it, but it was such a roller coster over such a very long period of time that I'm not sure how much I liked it. The book follows three college football players beginning in their freshman year and ending several years after graduation. The details of the football side were interesting and the author resists the temptation to make everything work out perfectly throughout. There were so many characters introduced at the beginning of the book that I wish I had a cheat sheet summarizing who they all were. To make it even more confusing, the author uses last names a lot to refer to characters as well as first names so I had trouble keeping everyone straight (so to speak). Eventually I figured out who was who, and spent a lot of time trying to guess who would end up with who. There was a lot of bed hopping and development of alternative sexualities in the book that it was sometimes hard to keep track. I was a bit disappointed by the ending, but after such a long read I shouldn't have been surprised by happily ever after (sort of). But it's a really engrossing book and I'm not at all sorry to have spent the time to read it.