A review by readabookorfive
Running with Lions by Julian Winters
4.0
But being a teenager is one good day of being a superhero, followed by a hundred days of being self conscious about every little damn thing
I love, love, love, loved Running With Lions so much. It was such a beautiful story full of so much heart, family and just overall warmth along with discussing some important issues surrounding being part of the LGBTQ+ community.
Sebastian was such a great main character to follow! He was such a good leader when it came to motivating and keep his team's spirits up. I loved following his journey with the team and with Emir. I thought he was just such a sweet character who really cared about all of these people that he calls his team - his family. I love books that involve a big group of friends or a sports team who clearly care a lot about each other so that was definitely one of my favourite elements of the story.
Emir was a character again, I really, really loved! I thought that his struggles were so genuine and he clearly did want to get better. He really reminded me of The Foxes in that aspect which obviously, hyped him up more for me. His relationship with Sebastian was such an interesting one to follow, I love ex best friends to enemies? to lovers and it was done so well with Emir and Sebastian.
The other Lions were also characters I really enjoyed. Especially the main characters around Sebastian, the only one I struggled with was Mason. I found him to be pretty horrific through the book towards certain characters and I didn't like that about him obviously. But overall, The Lions reminded me of The Foxes and it just bought me so many All For The Game feels.
I would really recommend Running With Lions and I can't wait to see what Julian Winters has in store next!
I love, love, love, loved Running With Lions so much. It was such a beautiful story full of so much heart, family and just overall warmth along with discussing some important issues surrounding being part of the LGBTQ+ community.
Sebastian was such a great main character to follow! He was such a good leader when it came to motivating and keep his team's spirits up. I loved following his journey with the team and with Emir. I thought he was just such a sweet character who really cared about all of these people that he calls his team - his family. I love books that involve a big group of friends or a sports team who clearly care a lot about each other so that was definitely one of my favourite elements of the story.
Emir was a character again, I really, really loved! I thought that his struggles were so genuine and he clearly did want to get better. He really reminded me of The Foxes in that aspect which obviously, hyped him up more for me. His relationship with Sebastian was such an interesting one to follow, I love ex best friends to enemies? to lovers and it was done so well with Emir and Sebastian.
The other Lions were also characters I really enjoyed. Especially the main characters around Sebastian, the only one I struggled with was Mason. I found him to be pretty horrific through the book towards certain characters and I didn't like that about him obviously. But overall, The Lions reminded me of The Foxes and it just bought me so many All For The Game feels.
I would really recommend Running With Lions and I can't wait to see what Julian Winters has in store next!