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Bezig met laden... Check & Mate: the instant Sunday Times bestseller and Goodreads Choice Awards winner for 2023 - an enemies-to-lovers romance that will have you hooked! (editie 2023)door Ali Hazelwood (Autor)
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.   ) Mav-n-Libby | Jun 18, 2024 |  Mallory is 18 and working at a car repair business. College wasn’t in her post high school plan for a lot of reasons. She’s struggling with her friends going off to college when she feels responsible for her chronically ill mother and younger sisters. Mallory was an excellent young chess player but when her father left the family she left chess. One of her friends convinces her to join the members of the chess club at a tournament just to help the club. She ends up beating the reigning world champion Nolan Sawyer. The inevitable romance and Mallory’s love hate relationship with the world of professional chess is an entertaining story. I liked this one quite a bit. (  ) SuziQoregon | Jun 13, 2024 | Meant to be gen Z but all the pop culture references are Millenial - my 12 year old would think they are “cringe”. The romance itself is cute but everything felt surface level. Not a chess fan so all that was lost on me. It was ok but I’m honestly shocked this won. The writing gave “I’m a cool mom” vibes. (  ) spiritedstardust | Jun 1, 2024 | Trigger warnings: Death of a father in a car crash and cheating in the past, sexism mentioned, sexist slur Score: Six out of ten. I own this book. Find this review on The StoryGraph. I wanted to read Check and Mate (the winner of the Best Young Adult book award in 2023,) hoping it would be an improvement over Ali Hazelwood's debut, The Love Hypothesis, but no library had it at the time so I resorted to buying it instead. I glanced at the blurb, which didn't seem up my alley, but I gave it a try anyway. When I closed the final page, it was okay. It starts with a prologue spanning a few pages, with Mallory unexpectedly beating Nolan in a chess match, then the plot begins with those characters living separately at first, with Mallory not wanting to play chess because of some events that happened. The first few pages are slow until Mallory and Nolan meet and then start a relationship, all while Mallory plays the game she didn't want to play again, chess. I hoped Hazelwood would resolve the problems I had with The Love Hypothesis in Check and Mate, but I was wrong, since I couldn't connect or relate to Mallory, Nolan or any other character, but that was only the beginning of the issues I saw. Perhaps adding depth to them would've improved the reading experience, since Mallory and Nolan had no chemistry, and the romance felt shoehorned in (they only bonded together over chess and nothing else. Really?) I used to like Mallory until I read some irritating lines when she didn't speak about her family kindly, and even though that was a one off, that left a sour taste in my mouth. The writing style and pacing are enough to keep the narrative going but the latter can be slow at times with nothing much happening. That kind of progression only works when there are well-written characters, but, unfortunately, there aren't any. At least the plot is easy enough to follow. Hazelwood's second latest creation (at the time of writing) has a narrow target audience of either chess enthusiasts or romance fanatics. I'm not particularly into either of them, which is why I didn't enjoy it as much as I could've. The climax is bittersweet as the couple break up, and an epilogue follows, abruptly finishing the fictional composition. Perhaps I'll give this author another shot by reading more of her stories, but my expectations are low. ) Law_Books600 | May 13, 2024 | ) tjsjohanna | Apr 11, 2024 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML:In this clever and swoonworthy YA debut from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis, life’s moving pieces bring rival chess players together in a match for the heart. Mallory Greenleaf is done with chess. Every move counts nowadays; after the sport led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory’s focus is on her mom, her sisters, and the dead-end job that keeps the lights on. That is, until she begrudgingly agrees to play in one last charity tournament and inadvertently wipes the board with notorious “Kingkiller” Nolan Sawyer: current world champion and reigning Bad Boy of chess. Nolan’s loss to an unknown rook-ie shocks everyone. What’s even more confusing? His desire to cross pawns again. What kind of gambit is Nolan playing? The smart move would be to walk away. Resign. Game over. But Mallory’s victory opens the door to sorely needed cash-prizes and despite everything, she can’t help feeling drawn to the enigmatic strategist.... As she rockets up the ranks, Mallory struggles to keep her family safely separated from the game that wrecked it in the first place. And as her love for the sport she so desperately wanted to hate begins to rekindle, Mallory quickly realizes that the games aren’t only on the board, the spotlight is brighter than she imagined, and the competition can be fierce (-ly attractive. And intelligent…and infuriating….) Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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