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A review by maryjayka
Power Plays & Straight A's by Eden Finley, Saxon James
5.0
I started with Book 3 in this series and had to go back to the beginning to see the history on the characters.
I love how each character in this series really does have their own voice. I thought Cohen and Seth sometimes sounded the same, but still were quite unique as people. Foster and Zach are totally different in so many ways, and yet they really do work together and have a great connection. I really enjoyed seeing their relationship unfold. There was an interesting twist with the twin brother/best friend angle.
What I liked about all the books in this series (I had to read 1, 2, and 4 before leaving another review because I was so engrossed in what was happening), is that there isn't some huge dramatic event that pushes the characters apart, just an ongoing progression of exploring who they are and whom they belong with. So often college-age characters are written in a way that sounds older than what they are, but these characters are really age-appropriate in the way they are exploring their identities and how they relate to their families. At the same time, though they are really classically stereotypical jocks in some ways, they are also very likeable characters.
I also enjoyed some of the foreshadows of the other characters' stories in subsequent books. There is a cohesion between the books so that it doesn't look like each story was written sequentially, but that the series was arced out in some form before the individual books were written. Impressive
I love how each character in this series really does have their own voice. I thought Cohen and Seth sometimes sounded the same, but still were quite unique as people. Foster and Zach are totally different in so many ways, and yet they really do work together and have a great connection. I really enjoyed seeing their relationship unfold. There was an interesting twist with the twin brother/best friend angle.
What I liked about all the books in this series (I had to read 1, 2, and 4 before leaving another review because I was so engrossed in what was happening), is that there isn't some huge dramatic event that pushes the characters apart, just an ongoing progression of exploring who they are and whom they belong with. So often college-age characters are written in a way that sounds older than what they are, but these characters are really age-appropriate in the way they are exploring their identities and how they relate to their families. At the same time, though they are really classically stereotypical jocks in some ways, they are also very likeable characters.
I also enjoyed some of the foreshadows of the other characters' stories in subsequent books. There is a cohesion between the books so that it doesn't look like each story was written sequentially, but that the series was arced out in some form before the individual books were written. Impressive