While most realistic-fiction YA tends towards a high school setting, it was refreshing to see this being set in chess tournaments and libraries (‘ God bless libraries.

the relationship itself was cute, but it also felt so rushed imo, i dont know if that because i read it quite fast or not but to me I felt that the characters could have been fleshed out a little bit more before they started to have their wee romance.It felt like it had been done before, like the third act break-up (misunderstanding ofc it was) and the not-really-rivals-to-lovers. I only rated this book four and the others five as I just personally found the others more exciting and entertaining and this book dragged on a little, but this book was still great as a whole. When he told Mallory off, I was grinning so hard because he was just saying facts and putting that girl in her place, and it was so satisfying. Look, I know it's not a fair comment given she's just 12 but am gonna tell you why she pissed me off, or rather Ali's writing pissed me off. deep breath* with mallory, i didn't feel connected to her despite also being the oldest child (but her commitment issues were REAL) nolan = adam carlsen 2.

Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Malorie has also written a number of titles for younger readers including Cloud Busting, which won the Smarties Silver Award, The Monster Crisp Guzzler, Robot Girl, Snow Dog, A Dangerous Game and My Friend's A Gris-Kwok. The only slight downside was the amount of POV’s could be confusing at times and felt like they were flitting around a lot.Few sentences, one or two paragraphs talking about it in a mature and tasteful and educational manner is fine.