These are the type of reviews I hate to write. I want to love everything I read. I want to connect with and fall in love with the characters. But that just didn’t happen with Curve Ball.
When I read the synopsis for Curve Ball I got really excited to read it. Not only was it M/M but it was a baseball book, 2 of my favorite subject matters. But then I started reading. From the beginning I had a hard time connecting with Jason and Cam. It wasn’t that I didn’t like that or like them together. I just didn’t connect. Part of the issue could be that I felt that the book was very jumpy. There were times where the timeline and even some conversations jumped. It didn’t have a natural feel to it. It didn’t flow easily.
The storyline has a lot of potential though. There was a uniqueness that you don’t see in a lot of M/M books. Having the setting be within a major sports team isn’t something you read. Seeing a character do something that is very much a current event was awesome. While I haven’t heard of a gay baseball player, I’m sure there are. Reading about the atmosphere within the clubhouse gave me a bit of an insider's view of what is or could be happening.
When I read the synopsis for Curve Ball I got really excited to read it. Not only was it M/M but it was a baseball book, 2 of my favorite subject matters. But then I started reading. From the beginning I had a hard time connecting with Jason and Cam. It wasn’t that I didn’t like that or like them together. I just didn’t connect. Part of the issue could be that I felt that the book was very jumpy. There were times where the timeline and even some conversations jumped. It didn’t have a natural feel to it. It didn’t flow easily.
The storyline has a lot of potential though. There was a uniqueness that you don’t see in a lot of M/M books. Having the setting be within a major sports team isn’t something you read. Seeing a character do something that is very much a current event was awesome. While I haven’t heard of a gay baseball player, I’m sure there are. Reading about the atmosphere within the clubhouse gave me a bit of an insider's view of what is or could be happening.
Curve Ball has a lot of potential. I feel if the author slowed down a bit there would be better flow to the book. I feel like I would have connected to the characters more. There were places that could have been filled in a bit more, scenes that were missing that if it was slowed down and added to, could have been there. While the storyline was unique and made me eager to read, the overall book disappointed me.
~Katie