A review by opheliastephanie
Games of Deception: The True Story of the First U.S. Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler's Germany by Andrew Maraniss
1.0
Maybe I have misread this somewhere but this is supposedly a kids/ YA book?
No it isn’t. Not even sure who it is for. A a history of the USA’s basketball team going to the 1936 Berlin Olympics. But this book kept going off on tangents to ensure you got the full picture. Too much detail was provided and too many side stories. For a die hard basketball enthusiast this might be an engaging book but for a mother reading to her 3 times a week basketball playing 11 year old we found it dull and badly constructed.
Note: I now see it was an adult book that was ‘converted’ for younger readers. Personally, I don’t think the editors stepped back from this project enough and thought about reading this as a young adult.
No it isn’t. Not even sure who it is for. A a history of the USA’s basketball team going to the 1936 Berlin Olympics. But this book kept going off on tangents to ensure you got the full picture. Too much detail was provided and too many side stories. For a die hard basketball enthusiast this might be an engaging book but for a mother reading to her 3 times a week basketball playing 11 year old we found it dull and badly constructed.
Note: I now see it was an adult book that was ‘converted’ for younger readers. Personally, I don’t think the editors stepped back from this project enough and thought about reading this as a young adult.