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Catching Jordan
I wasn’t planning on reading Catching Jordan when I first heard about it. It was about football, so I assumed it would all be over my head and uninteresting to me. Oh, how wrong I was.Catching Jordan is not all football talk. While the game obviously plays a big role in the plot and there are passages that feature it heavily, it’s also about the life of an athlete. Kenneally talks about the huge amounts of food Jordan can put away, which I can totally relate to as someone who ran cross-country in high school and college. Jordan is a totally relatable character because she worries about her relationships with the guys in her life as well as the mean girls in school. This book also did a nice job of showcasing why being a female athlete wasn’t about to get any easier for Jordan, and I appreciated that. The whole story felt like something that might actually happen o a girl with Jordan’s aspirations.As for the romance, let’s not deny it: this book is kind of insta-lovey. However, I thought it worked for this story because Jordan’s relationships with these guys were so complex. It was another scenario that felt true to life. It took me a while to see the ending coming, but I really liked it once we got there.THE FINAL VERDICT: If you like stories about football, Catching Jordan will appeal to you. I really don’t like football (seriously, I like the Super Bowl because I can eat wings), but I flew through this story. Definitely a cute read