Review: Play By Play
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 28, 2013
Please Note:  I received this book for free via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.  Thank you for the opportunity!I absolutely ADORED Play By Play, a really cute, totally addicting novella about a football player/blogger who writes all about his interactions with new neighbor Sophie (AKA Elevator Girl--or EG--to his bloggers).I really enjoyed reading Jake's "voice."  He is so relatable, and the reader can't help but root for him to win the girl, even as he keeps on digging himself a deeper hole with his omissions.  Sophie is also a great character.  She is so sweet, and I think she and Jake make a great couple.  Their relationship kind of began at warp-speed, but I think it worked pretty well for this book.  It is a novella, so there's not a lot of lee-way for drawn-out relationship-building, and yet I felt like I knew the characters all the same.Formatting-wise, I caught a glimpse of the completed/final Kindle edition on the Amazon site, and truly, this book is so well put together.  The blog entries written by Jake really look like what you would see on a blog, and the little details (like adding comments made by the blog's readers and even showing the number of pages the comments for each post take up) really make the entries look like a real blog post.Before I began reading Play By Play I thought the entire story was told through blog posts, which I was excited for, but then I realized that the blog posts were only part of the book.  Between the posts was the actual story, which it turns out I was glad for.  It allowed me to get more into the story and relate more to the characters, and I really enjoyed reading of them.I would definitely recommend this book to others who would like to read a fun, light story about a jock wooing the girl he likes and blogging about it at the same time, and mixed in is a healthy amount of sport's talk to interest male readers, too, I think.  It is so engaging, and I very much look forward to reading more from the author in the future.  If her other stories are as fun as this one, I can tell I will have some great reading ahead.