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Review: The Off Season

The Off Season The Off Season by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

My first thought after finishing this book: (view spoiler)

This is the sportiest looking book cover in this series yet it has the least sports. I mean, I can only compare it to the first book, but yeah. This book was super boring. There was just one incident in the middle that was wild but the whole rest of the book was pretty lame. The beginning was way way way too lovey dovey. I liked how in book one DJ was super cool and calm and collected about her crush, but here there's none of that and she's all head over heels. So that was annoying.

I honestly don't even have that much to say about the story this time because of how boring it was. I kind of don't even remember a lot of the book because I kept getting bored and zoning out and going on my phone to try and be entertained. That's when you know a book is real boring: When doing random bullshit on your phone becomes more appealing in the middle of listening to it.

After I enjoyed the first book so much it saddens me that this book has left me with a sour taste in my mouth about this series. I got the last two books in the series lined up from my library so hopefully those go better. Though for some reason they didn't have the audiobook for the last book, so it's going to be weird reading after all this time listening. And the voice actress really does make things more funny. *EDIT* The 4th book is actually a middle-grade spinoff rather than a continuation of the story, which is why it's different.

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