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Coming Up for Air by Miranda Kenneally pub 7/4/17 by Sourcebooks Fire YA - Contemporary Received from pub via Netgalley |
Characters • Maggie is the type of character I would love to become friends with. I admired her dedication to swimming and her straightforwardness to approach Levi with what she wanted. But I also related to her more vulnerable moments as she realized her feelings were changing and when she was psyched out by another person or an upcoming meet. She just felt so real. Likewise, Levi is officially one of my top three favorite Hundred Oaks guys. He's just as a dedicated to swimming and flawed but he's also a sweetheart who loves to read YA (dream guy right there) and cares deeply for his relationship with Maggie.
Writing • What's to say about Miranda Kenneally's writing that I haven't said before? It's compulsively readable. I immediately cared for the characters and the relationships. As always, her plots are sex positive and focus on these young women making choices about their bodies. I love that her characters are flawed but innately good people. Basically, if it's written by Kenneally I'm going to read it.
Overall feelings • Loved it! It honestly made me want to go back and re-read every book in Hundred Oaks
Favorite Olympic sport to watch • When I was younger, I was all about watching figure skating and gymnastics.
I have a lot of blogger friends who swam competitively in school and after hearing some of their stories I'm always interested in books with swimmers. Despite my best intentions I have not read any of Miranda Kenneally's books yet. I need to double check that my library has copies of all of them when we start ordering again in September (they get stolen way too often) and hopefully pick one up. I always get confused with her books about where to start since I know they all function on their own but they also all intersect. So.
ReplyDeleteI ABSOLUTELY ADORED COMING UP FOR AIR! It's one of my favorite Hundred Oaks books by far, particularly because I loved the characters and the story so much <3
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