Little Reading Coach

A few years ago I was looking for free books for my classroom library, and I stumbled on the giveaway section on Goodreads. About a month ago I entered a bunch of giveaways for young adult and children’s books not expecting to win anything. Well, I won three!!

Dating the Quarterback (Secret #3) by Emily Evans is a young adult romance novel. We follow the main character, Chelsea, as she tackles her love life while trying to get a letter of recommendation from a teacher to get into the college of her choice.

YA is by far my favorite genre. Part of me will always be a 16 year old girl, so romance YA books are my guilty pleasure. Dating the Quarterback is a fun novel that includes all aspects that appeal to teenage girls: boys, money, trips, and clothes.

I absolutely loved that Chelsea is an intelligent young lady. She has big dreams of becoming a doctor and works her butt off to make her senior year of high school the best she can academically. Her maturity made me forget that she’s still a teenager.

My only issue I had with this book is the choppy plot. I was confused a few times by the switch of scenes/time frames a few times before I got familiar with the pacing. It felt a little stop-start for me, which caused me to put the book down a few times because I would lose interest. I will say that even though I wasn’t a fan of the vision in the beginning, I really enjoyed how Evans incorporated the idea throughout the novel, especially at the end.

As a teacher, I always worry that some of the content may be a little too mature for my students. This novel was super conservative about the relationship budding between Chelsea and Sterling, which I really appreciated. I would feel completely comfortable giving this text to even my middle school students.

I will admit that I have never come across books by Emily Evans until this win, but that will be changing :).