Official Review: Playing Hurt by Gerald L Nardella

[dhomespot]

I love your review. It was very thoughtful and informative. I have this book on my tbr list.

[lucky1324]

It's an easy to relate book specially for teenagers. Good job on the description of places. It's so easy to imagine the scenes that are happening.

[Dorothy Hinds]

The "play by play" and "blow by blow" aspect of the game and fight brought the reality of a high school football game to life for me.

I wanted to find out the reason for Brian and Deanie'so fight, and if they made up!

There were no grammatical or spelling errors found. Then again I was engrossed in the story- line and wasn't the looking. I would definitely read this!

[Jessica Samuelsen]

It's nice that this story is so believable you are questioning whether it is fact or fiction. I bet it is a little bit of both.

[Aldonsa]

Thank you for an excellent review! It sounds like a book with a dynamic plot that plunged a reader into that time atmosphere. It would be interesting reading for sure.

[Nilu arya]

Perfect fast pace story with lots of action n knowledge of sixties.

[Jauthor97]

Sounds like a thought-provoking read. I love it when a book accurately portrays the time the story is talking of! Great review!

[WINFRIDAH JUMA]

That is it! I will probably read it because I love quick paced books and from the review, the story is certainly intriguing.

[dosenron877]

In paragraph 5, ALynnPowers mentions how the appearance of some of the typos can possibly be blamed to problems with conversion to a Kindle format. I think this is an interesting cautionary note for reviewers who might be quick to judge author grammatical competency.

[cherrykarl]

Amazing review Alynn! Thank you for giving us a glimpse of the story. I read the sample and I told myself 'this kinda my genre thing' and so, judging with the review you gave us I think I'm gonna love this. Congrats to the author!

[versatileer]

The excellent review on Playing Hurt by Gerald L Nardella shows the perfect setting of a sports theme. I cannot wait to read this next month.

[Oanaread]

Great review! It's not really my kind of book but your review made it a bit more appealing. You made me think of the book reminding the atmosphere of Grease, the movie and alike it. So now as I've red your review, I could see myself reading the book sometimes when I feel like something retro. From the way you describe it sounds like a light book for an easy Sunday afternoon. Thank you

[L_Therese]

I like this idea of details at the beginning coming into play later on. I think that this shows some really careful planning and plot construction.

[damikenny]

Alynn , i can of love the way you summarised the story and your review too...

[Britty01]

I enjoyed the detailed review providing a good summary of the book. I do not know much about life in the 1960s in the U.S., so it will probably be interesting to read, although as noted it is not a happy story. Rather one that will provide a hard look at the peer pressure that Brian and Deanie are subjected to. It is refreshing to see the harm that gender expectations can have on young men being discussed.