![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It has some good descriptions of basketball, but more importantly it has characters, both good and bad, that come alive on the page. (Which is not terribly surprising given the genre.) The book had enough twists and turns to keep me engrossed. Of course, after the travails the protagonist goes through, everything turns out ok at the end. It had interesting characters and though there is some of the “make sure you hit every possible cliché” in this book, it is less obvious. Maybe it was because I had low expectations but I found Summer Ball quite a good book. I would not be surprised if his books ended up becoming a Disney movie. Kid comes through and wins the big game, check. Cute girlfriend (who doesn’t know that she is a girlfriend), check. Lupica’s prose is workman-like and I find his books predictable and somewhat boring. Worse still, I could not even go beyond the first few pages of his next book, Heat. I did not have high expectations from this book since I had been less than impressed by Travel Team, a book I had read (once again picking it up from Soham) a year or so ago. Lupica writes sports novels for young adults and Summer Ball is a sequel to his previous best-seller Travel Team. I picked up Summer Ball by Mike Lupica from Soham this evening, and ended up finishing it at one go (another excuse for not working on our AACTE presentation). ![]()
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