Marisa Crane
🗓️ Publication Date: May 13, 2025
📚 My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
📚 My Review: I’m always drawn to a good coming-of-age story, and this one had so much potential with themes like grief, first love, and identity. I think I'm in the minority with my rating because while some moments resonated with me, others, including the ending, felt a bit rushed.
I was on a lot of teams in high school, but this story leaned quite heavily into basketball terminology, which was a little overwhelming for me since I’m not particularly into the sport. I also think LGBTQ+ readers might find certain moments more meaningful and relatable than I did.
Overall, it’s not a bad read, just not one that kept me completely hooked.
Thank you to @The Dual Press via @netgalley for the eARC of this book in exchange for my honest review.
📚 Goodreads Synopsis: Star point guard Mack Morris’s senior year of high school begins with twin cataclysms: the death of Mack’s father and the arrival of transfer student Liv Cooper. Playing side by side for their high school basketball team, Mack and Liv discover an electrifying, game-winning chemistry on the court. Off the court, they fall into an equally intoxicating more-than-friendship—one that feels out-of-bounds in their small Pennsylvania town. Mack teeters on the precipice of adulthood as desire and grief collide with drugs, sex, and the looming college signing deadline. Caught between the dual impulses of ambition and self-destruction, Mack must decide what kind of life they want to fight for.
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