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The First Move by Jenny Ireland
Nov. 5th, 2023 12:57 amThe Blurb On The Back:
ALONELYPAWN: Tell me something about you and I’ll tell you something about me.
PRETTYBASIC: You first.
ALONELYPAWN: This is the first time I’ve played since last year. Your turn.
PRETTYBASIC: I’m not like other girls.
Juliet believes girls like her - girls with arthritis - don’t get their own love stories. She exists at the edges of her friends’ social lives, preferring to play online chess. There, she isn’t just ‘the girl with crutches’.
Ronan is good-looking, smart, a bad boy plagued by guilt over what happened to his brother. Chess Life is his escape.
At school, Juliet things someone like Roman could never be interested in someone like her - and she wouldn’t want him to be anyway. His attitude stinks.
But little do they know they have more in common than they think, and everybody deserves a love story …
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Jenny Ireland’s debut YA romance has a well drawn female main character and does a great job of showing what it’s like to live with arthritis. However Juliet’s relationship with Tara interested me more than the romance with Ronan, mainly because Ronan’s backstory didn’t ring as emotionally true with his relationship with his mother in particular feeling undercooked. That said I enjoyed reading this and will happily check out Ireland’s next book.
THE FIRST MOVE was released in the United Kingdom on 13th April 2023. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.
ALONELYPAWN: Tell me something about you and I’ll tell you something about me.
PRETTYBASIC: You first.
ALONELYPAWN: This is the first time I’ve played since last year. Your turn.
PRETTYBASIC: I’m not like other girls.
Juliet believes girls like her - girls with arthritis - don’t get their own love stories. She exists at the edges of her friends’ social lives, preferring to play online chess. There, she isn’t just ‘the girl with crutches’.
Ronan is good-looking, smart, a bad boy plagued by guilt over what happened to his brother. Chess Life is his escape.
At school, Juliet things someone like Roman could never be interested in someone like her - and she wouldn’t want him to be anyway. His attitude stinks.
But little do they know they have more in common than they think, and everybody deserves a love story …
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Jenny Ireland’s debut YA romance has a well drawn female main character and does a great job of showing what it’s like to live with arthritis. However Juliet’s relationship with Tara interested me more than the romance with Ronan, mainly because Ronan’s backstory didn’t ring as emotionally true with his relationship with his mother in particular feeling undercooked. That said I enjoyed reading this and will happily check out Ireland’s next book.
THE FIRST MOVE was released in the United Kingdom on 13th April 2023. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.
