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Two for Interference by Lasairiona McMaster
3.0
(3.5⭐ rated down to 3⭐)
Be prepared, I think my opinion differs a lot from other reviews.
Hocky romance? Yes! But not quite what you expect. The sport itself is on the downlow in this one but the team provides a great atmoshpere for this story.
In Two for Interference, we meet Cleo, the chubby booknerd college student focused on her grades and Linc, the hockey palyer with an artist's heart.
The tropes are promising!
Anonymus texting
Jock/nerd
Jock/chubby girl
...and loads of insecurities.
They start texting after a Linc texts a wrong number after a hook up and they keep it up and somehow show their true colours through their phones.
In real life, they also know each other but both are concerned the other is way out of their league. Linc thinks Cleo, a smart, confident woman hates his jock guts, while Cleo is convinced she could never be with a hot guy like Linc.
Typical? Yeah, very much. Is it a sweet trope though? Yeah, it is.
The anonymus texting was actually pretty great. It showed how much easier it can be to open up to a complete stranger you have zero chance to meet. They both shared things about themsleves they didn't really share with anyone else.
But after they met, and realised who the other is, their chemistry burned out for me. They acted soooooo different in real life, like they were nothing like the people who texted. I know it's different, but it was like Cleo lost all her personality and strength and was extremely insecure. She was a mix of fak3 bravado and crushed ego. I couldn't really reconcile her two selves.
And this leads me to the characters.
Linc, I liked! He was a sweet jock, who hid his artist heart from the world because of the pressure from his dad to become a pro player. He was kinda unreal, with all her knowledge about Pride&Prejudice and "girly" things. He was also fighting for their relationship from the very first moment even if he had some insecurities and fears about their future.
Cleo, though? No. She was not the heroine for me. As a plus size girl myself, I still haven't found a story where a plus size girl is represented as confident. And Cleo was not the inspiring heroine either. She had insecurities the size of a country and such low self-esteem, not just regarding her body but also regarding her aspirations, that I kinda pitied her.
I saw a lot of reviews saying how great body positivity was in this book. And to some extent I agree. It was great that out male MC was actually lusting after her since they met showing how beautiful and sexy curves can be. But I don't really like when you link female body positivity with men.
I know it's important to represent plus size girls, and show how they gain confidence. But I felt like she relied on Linc to give her that confidence. And that is soooooo not okay. Give me a female character who learns to love herself on their own and they don't need a man to feel good about themselves.
And don't get me started on taking a compliment. I know it's hard, girl, but after he confessed he loved you, and made sweet love to you several times, and wants to show you off in public, if you don't belive he's into you, you need work!
(Sidenote on a little thing that got to me...
Who GIGGLES that much? I was pulling my hair and swearing at the book after Cleo giggled for the hundreth times. Laugh, smile, chuckle, snicker, tittle, snigger, chortle whatever.. freaking schoolgirls giggle with their girlfrinds and not a grown ass woman during sex. It drove me crazy.)
At least, at the end, she came through and didn't wait that much for the man to grovel and admitted her mistake. I see in a lot of books, that girls just sit and wait for their men to fall into their lap, but in reality they should fight for their men too. Cleo showed at the end, that she was willing to fight too. Which was an admiring quality to her that I was afraid I won't see.
I have to tell you, I am a lot picky with books representing fat girls as the topic is so close to my heart. If you haven't picked up on this detail yet
Be prepared, I think my opinion differs a lot from other reviews.
Hocky romance? Yes! But not quite what you expect. The sport itself is on the downlow in this one but the team provides a great atmoshpere for this story.
In Two for Interference, we meet Cleo, the chubby booknerd college student focused on her grades and Linc, the hockey palyer with an artist's heart.
The tropes are promising!
Anonymus texting
Jock/nerd
Jock/chubby girl
...and loads of insecurities.
They start texting after a Linc texts a wrong number after a hook up and they keep it up and somehow show their true colours through their phones.
In real life, they also know each other but both are concerned the other is way out of their league. Linc thinks Cleo, a smart, confident woman hates his jock guts, while Cleo is convinced she could never be with a hot guy like Linc.
Typical? Yeah, very much. Is it a sweet trope though? Yeah, it is.
The anonymus texting was actually pretty great. It showed how much easier it can be to open up to a complete stranger you have zero chance to meet. They both shared things about themsleves they didn't really share with anyone else.
But after they met, and realised who the other is, their chemistry burned out for me. They acted soooooo different in real life, like they were nothing like the people who texted. I know it's different, but it was like Cleo lost all her personality and strength and was extremely insecure. She was a mix of fak3 bravado and crushed ego. I couldn't really reconcile her two selves.
And this leads me to the characters.
Linc, I liked! He was a sweet jock, who hid his artist heart from the world because of the pressure from his dad to become a pro player. He was kinda unreal, with all her knowledge about Pride&Prejudice and "girly" things. He was also fighting for their relationship from the very first moment even if he had some insecurities and fears about their future.
Cleo, though? No. She was not the heroine for me. As a plus size girl myself, I still haven't found a story where a plus size girl is represented as confident. And Cleo was not the inspiring heroine either. She had insecurities the size of a country and such low self-esteem, not just regarding her body but also regarding her aspirations, that I kinda pitied her.
I saw a lot of reviews saying how great body positivity was in this book. And to some extent I agree. It was great that out male MC was actually lusting after her since they met showing how beautiful and sexy curves can be. But I don't really like when you link female body positivity with men.
I know it's important to represent plus size girls, and show how they gain confidence. But I felt like she relied on Linc to give her that confidence. And that is soooooo not okay. Give me a female character who learns to love herself on their own and they don't need a man to feel good about themselves.
And don't get me started on taking a compliment. I know it's hard, girl, but after he confessed he loved you, and made sweet love to you several times, and wants to show you off in public, if you don't belive he's into you, you need work!
(Sidenote on a little thing that got to me...
Who GIGGLES that much? I was pulling my hair and swearing at the book after Cleo giggled for the hundreth times. Laugh, smile, chuckle, snicker, tittle, snigger, chortle whatever.. freaking schoolgirls giggle with their girlfrinds and not a grown ass woman during sex. It drove me crazy.)
At least, at the end, she came through and didn't wait that much for the man to grovel and admitted her mistake. I see in a lot of books, that girls just sit and wait for their men to fall into their lap, but in reality they should fight for their men too. Cleo showed at the end, that she was willing to fight too. Which was an admiring quality to her that I was afraid I won't see.
I have to tell you, I am a lot picky with books representing fat girls as the topic is so close to my heart. If you haven't picked up on this detail yet