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All of Maggie's focus and free time is spent swimming. She's not only striving to earn scholarships - she's training to qualify for the Olympics. It helps that her best friend, Levi, is also on the team and that he cheers her on, but he's already earned his Olympic tryout, so sometimes his presence creates more pressure.
If that wasn't stressful enough, life becomes even more complicated once Maggie goes on a college visit. There, she realizes how much of the typical high school experience she's missed out on by being in the pool. Not one to shy away from a challenge, Maggie decides to try to squeeze the most out of her senior year while still training. First up? Making out with a guy. Maggie figures that Levi could be the perfect candidate - after all, they already spend a lot of time together. But as Maggie starts to discover her own feelings for Levi, she must decide how much she's willing to sacrifice in the water to win at love.
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- By: Kody Keplinger
- Narrated by: Kate Reinders
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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Most high school sports teams have rivalries with other Schools. At Hamilton High, it’s a civil war: the football team versus the soccer team. And for her part, Lissa is sick of it. Her quarterback boyfriend, Randy, is always ditching her to go pick a fight or haze a freshman. And on three separate occasions Randy’s car has been egged while he and Lissa were inside, making out. She is done competing with a bunch of sweaty boys for her own boyfriend’s attention. Lissa decides to end the rivalry once and for all: She and the other players’ girlfriends go on a hookup strike.
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A great read
- By Valerie StuckInBooks on 01-29-12
By: Kody Keplinger
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Mr. Popular
- By: Nicole London
- Narrated by: Tyler Ryan, Laurie Winkel
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
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Liam "Mr. Popular" Carter will always be the closest thing to the "walking plague" in my eyes. His cockiness seeps through his every move, and no matter how many state championships he wins with the basketball team, he will forever be a "loss" to me. Because he's my older brother's best friend, I'm forced to tolerate him, and he's forced to tolerate me. In fact, unless my brother is around, we happily ignore each other every chance we get. It wasn't always this way, though....
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high school
- By Smiller4208 on 11-16-18
By: Nicole London
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Game Changer
- Game Changers Series, Book 1
- By: Rachel Reid
- Narrated by: Tor Thom
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
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New York Admirals captain Scott Hunter takes his pregame rituals very seriously. In this case, it's not just a lucky smoothie he's craving - it's the man who made it. Pro hockey star Scott Hunter knows a good thing when he sees it. So, when a smoothie made by juice bar barista Kip Grady precedes Scott breaking his on-ice slump, he's desperate to recreate the magic...and to get to know the sexy, funny guy behind the counter.
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Tor for the Score
- By Delicious on 10-29-19
By: Rachel Reid
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One Night with a Quarterback
- Santa Fe Bobcats Series #1
- By: Jeanette Murray
- Narrated by: Carly Robins
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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Cassie Wainwright thought that her father - head coach of the Santa Fe Bobcats - ignored her purposefully. Come to find out, he had no clue that she'd ever been born. Now Cassie is determined to meet the man who's always been missing from her life. Her mother warns her that being the long-lost daughter of a well-known NFL coach won't be easy, but Cassie's determined to stick it out - and before her life turns upside down, she wants one more night of fun.
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Chapter 24 Isn't Missing!
- By Andrew on 07-15-18
By: Jeanette Murray
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My Life Next Door
- By: Huntley Fitzpatrick
- Narrated by: Amy Rubinate
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
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The Garretts are everything the Reeds are not: loud, numerous, messy, affectionate. And every day from her balcony perch, 17-year-old Samantha Reed wishes she was one of them...until one summer evening, Jase Garrett climbs her terrace and changes everything. As the two fall fiercely in love, Jase's family makes Samantha one of their own. Then in an instant, the bottom drops out of her world and she is suddenly faced with an impossible decision. Which perfect family will save her? Or is it time she saved herself?
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A well written coming of age book
- By Ezinwanyi on 10-23-15
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Trying Not to Love You
- The Love Series, Book One
- By: Megan Smith
- Narrated by: Jessica Almasy
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
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MacKenzie Cahill has dealt with overbearing and overprotective brothers her entire life, making it near impossible to enjoy her teenage years. Having a boyfriend was practically impossible until she met a guy that wasn't afraid to stand up to them - Dominic. He was sweet, thoughtful, and everything MacKenzie ever wanted in a man. But when they go away to college at Old Dominion University, MacKenzie sees a whole new side of Dominic and begins to wonder if he really is different from every other guy.
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Childish
- By Amazon Customer on 08-27-20
By: Megan Smith
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Lights Out Lucy
- A Music City Rollers Novel
- By: Elicia Hyder
- Narrated by: Callie Dalton
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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I can't say they didn't warn me. Right now, I realize: I probably should have listened. Because if there's anyone who has no business playing a sport that requires a helmet, pads, and a liability waiver, it's this girl. The same girl who once knocked herself out during a game of backyard baseball. I stepped up to the plate, pulled the bat back a little too far to swing, and clocked myself in the back of the skull. Boom. Lights Out Lucy. That's how I got my roller derby name. So yeah. Maybe I should have known better.
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Wonderfully smart laugh out loud story
- By RC18 on 05-16-18
By: Elicia Hyder
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Never Always Sometimes
- By: Adi Alsaid
- Narrated by: Amanda Leigh Cobb
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
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Best friends Dave and Julia were determined never to be cliché high school kids. They even wrote their own Never List of everything they vowed they'd never, ever do in high school. Some of the rules have been easy to follow, like number five, never dye your hair a color of the rainbow, or number seven, never hook up with a teacher. But Dave has a secret: he's broken rule number eight, never pine silently after someone for the entirety of high school. It's either that or break rule number ten, never date your best friend.
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not what I expected
- By Margarita Nieves on 10-01-15
By: Adi Alsaid
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My Favorite Mistake
- By: Chelsea M. Cameron
- Narrated by: Kate Rudd
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Two secrets. One bet. Who will break first? Taylor Caldwell can't decide if she wants to kiss her new college roommate or punch him. On the one hand, Hunter Zaccadelli is a handsome blue-eyed bundle of charm. On the other, he's a tattooed, guitar-playing bad boy. Maybe that's why Taylor's afraid of falling in love with him, or anyone else. She doesn't want to get burned, so she needs him gone before it's too late.
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Mega Swoon Worthy New Adult Romance
- By Jordy ♡♡♡♡ on 08-28-13
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I Want It That Way
- By: Ann Aguirre
- Narrated by: Bailey Carr
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
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Nadia Conrad has big dreams, and she's determined to make them come true. But between maintaining her college scholarship and working at the local day care to support herself, dating's the last thing on her mind. Then she moves into a new apartment and meets the taciturn yet irresistible guy in 1B. Daniel Tyler has grown up too fast. Becoming a single dad at 20 turned his life upside down - and brought him heartache he can't risk again.
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Love story between a dad and a driven student
- By Nia on 01-23-15
By: Ann Aguirre
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Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit
- By: Jaye Robin Brown
- Narrated by: Amanda Dolan
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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Joanna Gordon has been out and proud for years, but when her popular radio evangelist father remarries and decides to move all three of them from Atlanta to the more conservative Rome, Georgia, he asks Jo to do the impossible: to lie low for the rest of her senior year. And Jo reluctantly agrees. Although it is (mostly) much easier for Jo to fit in as a straight girl, things get complicated when she meets Mary Carlson, the oh-so-tempting sister of her new friend at school. But Jo couldn't possibly think of breaking her promise to her dad.
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Straitest lesbian romance I’ve ever read
- By Anonymous User on 05-13-22
By: Jaye Robin Brown
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The Charlotte Chronicles
- By: Jen Frederick
- Narrated by: Jennifer Mack, Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
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Charlotte and Nathan were supposed to be forever. They grew up together. Their families were intertwined. Charlotte was Nathan's first love. Nathan was Charlotte's first everything. Until they weren't. How do you hold on to the person you know in your heart you are supposed to be with when everything and everyone in the universe is telling you it's over? How many times does a heart break? When is enough enough? How long is forever?
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Love the story line!
- By LORI on 08-13-15
By: Jen Frederick
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- Kate McMurry
- 02-16-21
Well written, but definitely not for young teens
Maggie and Levi have shared the same passion, competitive swimming, since childhood, and a very close friendship has formed between them because of it. At the start of the story, they are both 18 and nearing the end of their senior year in high school. Each has been accepted, with a full ride, to universities with prestigious swimming teams, Maggie in California and Levi in Texas. Because Maggie and Levi have been equally busy with school and their sport all these years, neither has ever dated, as they are unwilling to spare the time that a relationship requires. For the past several years, however, Levi has been a typical “manwhore,” easily bumping into endless, female swimmers at competitive tournaments, who are ready and willing to engage in spontaneous “hookups” with him, involving semi-public intimacies, up to and including oral sex and intercourse. Levi views these sexual encounters as nothing more than a convenient stress reliever, and he has never cared enough about his female partners’ opinions of these events to discuss it with Maggie. Nor has she cared enough to wonder about those young women’s feelings either.
Maggie is currently still a virgin, but she finds herself, more and more lately, feeling uncomfortable tension due to increasingly strong sexual “urges.” As a result, she has concluded that she, too, needs to find her own convenient, one-off, sequential, makeout partners to de-stress with. She’s not necessarily contemplating leaping right into Levi’s degree of casual promiscuity, but she certainly has no qualms about beginning the first steps that would inevitably lead her to fully follow in his footsteps. Unfortunately for her plan to launch herself into the murky waters of the sex-as-Xanax, partner-switching that apparently abounds in the teenage, competitive swim world, her first attempt is a ridiculous bust of a makeout session with a college athlete, at a drunken frat party during a visit to the university she will be attending in the coming fall. Afterwards, as she mentally reviews her own sexual performance as well as that of her partner, Maggie decides that all she needs, in order to, in the future, do a much more competent job at emulating Levi’s dissipated approach to sex, is a sex tutor. And who better for the job than the king of sexual flings himself, her good buddy, Levi?
It's always difficult to find anything new and different in a "friends to lovers" romance, whether it is an adult, New Adult (NA), or Young Adult (YA) novel. Mainly because the motivation for the two previously platonic BFFs for not committing to romantic love with each other is always the same: "I don’t dare get involved with my best friend romantically, because if the romance doesn’t work out, I'll lose my friend!" Given that, for generations now within Western culture, the most ideal mate has been considered to be a best friend whom one feels terrific sexual chemistry with, and given the fact that virtually no one in the real world has any chance of maintaining the huge amounts of friendship-bonding time, that is only possible in the free-wheeling teen years, once adult life, with its manifold responsibilities, takes over, this romantic conflict is, of course, nonsense on both counts.
There is an additional romance trope in this novel, which has been popular in adult romance, going back at least 40 years. It consists of one or both of the romantic protagonists, at the beginning of the book, kicking off their relationship by cold-bloodedly deciding to use each other for the selfish, instant gratification of uncommitted, temporary, meaningless sex. Given that this trope occurs in a romance novel, which must always include an HEA, that narcissistic beginning, of course, always magically evolves into committed love. This trope is not one that I personally enjoy, because it is so dehumanizing. And it feels very poorly motivated, in particular, in the case of a story that has the additional trope of "friends become lovers." How, I ask myself, can anyone be so clueless as to believe that treating a BFF like a convenient, unpaid prostitute is the act of a loving friend?
It is important to mention that, in this novel, MK breaks one of the biggest taboos of YA in that this is one of the most erotic YA novels I’ve ever read. Yes, both of these protagonists are over 18 and consenting adults of the same age. But if MK wanted to write a novel with sexual content, it would have been less of a violation of genre expectations if she had written the story as NA rather than YA. But because this book has been marketed as YA, due to its sexual content, I would not personally recommend it for anyone under the age of 17. MK several times goes so far as to offer some below-the-belt action, on stage, which is definitely PG-13. In addition, many adult readers of YA romance (who are estimated to represent 60% of the readership of YA), purposely read YA romance instead of adult romance in order to avoid sex scenes. Such readers may be shocked at the degree of sexual content in this book. On the other hand, for adult readers who would be happy to experience a little teen-sex titillation in a YA novel, without having to endure the enormously graphic sex scenes that drag out endlessly in a huge percentage of NA and adult romance novels, this book will definitely fill the bill. Frequent sexual experimentation sessions between two extremely fit athletes who are both young, gorgeous, and equally ripped, who love and respect each other as friends and fellow elite athletes, and who discover they are madly sexually attracted, makes for some pretty hot make-out scenes.
This book is secondarily billed as a sports romance. For me personally, my favorite version of that subgenre of YA romance is when the hero and heroine are both elite athletes in the same sport, which is definitely the case here. I am not a fan of, and certainly not an expert on the sport of swimming. However, the swimming scenes were an enjoyable read for me, because they seem quite authentic.
Overall, this is not my favorite of MK’s YA novels, not by a long shot. However, she is such a polished writer, I mostly enjoyed the book in spite of my personal prejudices against the romance tropes described above.
I experienced this book both in Kindle format and as an Audible recording, utilizing the WhisperSync program through Amazon. The narrator does a good job with both male and female voices, of all ages, and an excellent job acting out all the parts.
I rate this book as follows:
Heroine: 3 stars
Hero: 3 stars
Subcharacters: 4 stars
Romance Plot: 3 stars
Elite Swimming Plot: 4 stars
Swimming Enemy Melodrama Plot: 3 stars
Writing: 4 stars
Audiobook Narration: 4 stars
Overall: 3.5 rounded to 4 stars
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- Emma Ackerman
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worst book out of the hundred oaks series, very disappointed
Very happy about the ending thought talking about Sam and Jordan
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