Review: The Off Season

Title: The Off Season
Author: Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Category: Fiction, Young Adult
Rating: 3.5/5
Summary: D.J. Schwenk starts her junior year of high school as a linebacker on the football team. Just as her relationship with the quarterback at a rival high school starts to heat up, real life gets in the way.

Review: I liked this sequel better than The Dairy Queen because the action picked up a lot faster. It's easy to root for this honest, hard-working girl who just so happens to be a linebacker. And even though the plot was a little more heavy than the first book, I think it was handled in a much more balanced way that left me feeling hopeful at the end. I also liked that certain things weren't given a Hollywood ending.