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The past seven years have been hard on Avery Abrams: After training her entire life to make the Olympic gymnastics team, a disastrous performance ended her athletic career for good. Her best friend and teammate, Jasmine, went on to become an Olympic champion, then committed the ultimate betrayal by marrying their emotionally abusive coach, Dimitri. Now, reeling from a break
The past seven years have been hard on Avery Abrams: After training her entire life to make the Olympic gymnastics team, a disastrous performance ended her athletic career for good. Her best friend and teammate, Jasmine, went on to become an Olympic champion, then committed the ultimate betrayal by marrying their emotionally abusive coach, Dimitri. Now, reeling from a breakup with her football star boyfriend, Avery returns to her Massachusetts hometown, where new coach Ryan asks her to help him train a promising young gymnast with Olympic aspirations. Despite her misgivings and worries about the memories it will evoke, Avery agrees. Back in the gym, she’s surprised to find sparks flying with Ryan. But when a shocking scandal in the gymnastics world breaks, it has shattering effects not only for the sport but also for Avery and her old friend Jasmine.
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Published
June 23rd 2020
by Atria Books

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(ISBN13: 9781982121471 )

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1.5 Stars Like pretty much all other American girls who watched an injured Kerri Strug vault The Magnificent Seven to US Olympic gold in 1996, I had dreams of being an badass gymnast. 12 year old me had the dream and 38 year old me thought I has this book. We were both wrong. Because the dream we all thought we had back then - about being a celebrated and loved gymnast who could fly - we all now know involved a lot of abuse. I now look at Kerri Strug's face in those 1996 Atlanta TouTube videos an
1.5 Stars Like pretty much all other American girls who watched an injured Kerri Strug vault The Magnificent Seven to US Olympic gold in 1996, I had dreams of being an badass gymnast. 12 year old me had the dream and 38 year old me thought I has this book. We were both wrong. Because the dream we all thought we had back then - about being a celebrated and loved gymnast who could fly - we all now know involved a lot of abuse. I now look at Kerri Strug's face in those 1996 Atlanta TouTube videos and see things a lot differently. I used to see nerves and determination. Now I see fear and the look of a trapped little girl who knows she has to run on a very injured foot or risk the wrath of her coaches. Most of us have heard about Larry Nassar. And he was one of the people who carried Kerri off the platform that day. I've also watched all the documentaries and read some of the books. All was not right in Neverland. And it's heartbreaking. Still, I still love magic of gymnastics and have so much respect for the young athletes who sacrifice so much and put their bodies through such havoc to follow their dreams. So I was really excited to read this book and get a taste of the 2020 Olympic Gymnastic Team that will never be. Yet another casualty to COVID-19. Unfortunately, however, this book just wasn't sure what it wanted to be. The cover and blurb pedaled a light romance set against the backdrop of elite gymnastics. A "scandal" is alluded to...and, again, unless you live under a rock, we all knew what that scandal was most likely to be. However, putting it bluntly, the romance in this book just sucked. The book would have been better without it. More attention could have been given to other things. Instead, the two love interests basically circle each other over and over again...taking turns wanting to just be friends despite "wanting to be together" and having numerous conversations about this - multiple times. Over and over again. Zero tension. Zero build-up. Also, I felt like Avery was giving Hallie the "last talk before the big game" pep talk on almost every other page. Which made the actual pre-big moment pep talk at the end of the book feel superfluous and completely uneventful. It felt powerless and I just didn't care. It had been done too many times already, leaving it completely without impact. In fact, here is a basic rundown of the story in general... Avery whining and wallowing. Gymnastics practice. Long-winded relationship conversation. Avery whining and wallowing. Gymnastics Practice. Pep talk. Long list of fictional gymnast names. Gymnastics practice. Long-winded relationship conversation. Gymnastics competition. Pep talk. Repeat. Now, what really irritated me about this book was the sexual abuse story line....which let's remember is based on REAL sexual abuse events, after all...if you are going to incorporate such a heavy and serious topic into what is basically a fluff book, it needs to be either briefly mentioned, but not involving any of the main characters...or it needs to touch a main character and become a HUGE focal point of the story. But you can't have it both ways. Which is what this book attempted. Briefly mentioning makes it clear you don't exist in a vacuum and gives the real events the respect they deserve. But making one of your characters a victim of the abuser - abuse which occurs off page DURING the course of the story - without making that the focal point of the story from that point forward, felt...exploitative, in my opinion. It was like this book wanted to do some heavy lifting, without actually having to touch any weight. And I didn't like it. It took something really serious - something REAL, which this author literally plucked from the news headlines almost word for word - and made it a cheap plot device with little substance. Other than that, you could definitely tell the author knows a lot about the sport of gymnastics. In the notes preceding the book, she mentions she trained and competed for many years. And it definitely showed. Those portions of the book (the detailed descriptions of gymnastic elements, conditioning, practice, and culture) felt very authentic and I enjoyed them; however, they just didn't offset everything that was missing in my opinion. Which is a bummer. I really wanted to love this.
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Avery Abrahams dreamed of being Olympic gymnast for her whole life and trained for it till one day her only breaks into smithereens with one fault, one disastrous performance ended with her injury. And her best friend took over her place, becoming Olympic champion, succeeding everything she wanted. As a final nail in her coffin: she got married with their strict, abusive coach Dimitri: The very same man, she trained with for years and the man who never called and asked her if she was okay after
Avery Abrahams dreamed of being Olympic gymnast for her whole life and trained for it till one day her only breaks into smithereens with one fault, one disastrous performance ended with her injury. And her best friend took over her place, becoming Olympic champion, succeeding everything she wanted. As a final nail in her coffin: she got married with their strict, abusive coach Dimitri: The very same man, she trained with for years and the man who never called and asked her if she was okay after her big injury ended her career. She leaves the town to move to LA for college education in UCLA but she cannot adapt in her life because getting drunk, partying too much and after dropping school, she starts dating a football star but 4 years later, he dumps her. Now she’s coming to her home sweet home, heartbroken, jobless, aimless for living with her family house covered with her photos of her competitions, her trophies. And the very same night, she has a family dinner mixed with their interrogation what she’s going to do with her life, she gets a phone call Ryan she has known from her training days and had a crush on him years ago. After winning gold metals, Ryan changes his career direction to become a coach and now he asks Avery to assist her training promising young gymnast named Hallie. Avery hesitates to say yes but after seeing TMZ reports of her ex-lover dating a swim-suit model and experiencing a disastrous Tinder sate of her own, she feels like she has to do something with her life and she gets the offer. This sweet, moving, emotional story reminded me of Lucy Score’s Rock Bottom Girl but this one is more thought-provoking, serious, dealing with metoo movement, abuse, self-destruction. This is powerful women’s fiction more than romance. I really enjoyed Ryan and Avery’s chemistry and Ryan lost his brownie points (I think he lost his all credits till he does honorable, praising things for honoring the lives of hard working and fighting women!)so many times I wanted to punch him for his obnoxious moves and passive manners. This is motivational second chances, learning from your mistakes and loving yourself book with heartfelt and positive messages. It’s a great feel-good, keep smiling and finding you inner power not to give up book! I only cut one star because of romance parts. (Slow burn but also hero’s indecisive moves around heroine made me a little irritated.) But it’s still great 4 starred, remarkable and motivational reading! Special thanks to NetGalley and Atria Books for sharing this meaningful ARC with me in exchange my honest review. blog instagram facebook twitter
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4.45/5 ⭐ Full review on my Blog: The Dacian She-Wolf 🐺
WARNING! ENDLESS RANT AHEAD!
Hear me out, I love gymnastics too damn much and this was actually really good and even though I want to give it more stars, I think my rating is fair this way. But inside my heart, I gave it 5 stars ;) Okay now. Moving on. I cannot express how happy this synopsis made me when I first discovered this book. I am a huge gymnastics fan, I’ve been in love with this sport for ages already and I am honestly bordering o
4.45/5 ⭐ Full review on my Blog: The Dacian She-Wolf 🐺
WARNING! ENDLESS RANT AHEAD!
Hear me out, I love gymnastics too damn much and this was actually really good and even though I want to give it more stars, I think my rating is fair this way. But inside my heart, I gave it 5 stars ;) Okay now. Moving on. I cannot express how happy this synopsis made me when I first discovered this book. I am a huge gymnastics fan, I’ve been in love with this sport for ages already and I am honestly bordering obsession when it comes to gymnastics competitions (or gymnastics in general). And when I saw that this is a romance featuring my favourite sport in the world I had to have a serious talk with myself and prepare for absolutely everything I had to encounter. You know when you have a huge obsession and you just start fantasising and bring your hopes so high up that you can’t reach them anymore? Yeah, me too. That’s why I had to pace myself. To be honest,
Head Over Heels
did not disappoint me in any way. It was actually one of the few books for which I had high hopes without knowing what’s exactly going to happen and it did not let me down. Like, I lived up to my own pre-programmed hype. This went exactly the way I thought it would. I predicted the majority of the main events here and (yay me!) I was right. I liked that. Hannah Orenstein gives us insights into this book. Insights from a world that doesn’t interest anybody in general – only once every four years. The gymnastics world is a tough and fascinating world. It is cruel and hard and lonely and maybe a bit sad. But in order to be part of this world, you have to have unconditional love for the sport that is to become your worst torturer and your dearest friend. You have to commit 100% to this life. You have to give up on everything but yourself in order to achieve the impossible and touch perfection. But what happens when you sell your soul for those five minutes of eternal glory that is never going to happen anymore? You become nothing. This is the story of Avery Abrams, the ultimate fallen star. This sport is tough. You only got one chance to make it. Yeah, sure, sports fans might say that it isn’t true, this is the case of every sport and so. But I want to say that yes, it might be right, but in gymnastics (because that’s what we’re talking about here) there is about one chance. This one for a lifetime. Avery missed her chance and this made her spin in an endless spiral for seven long years. Until her chance finally came back – this time under a different circumstance (wearing a mask, it was in disguise): Ryan and his coaching offer for a future star of gymnastics. I loved the gymnastics talk in this. The lingo made me so incredibly happy that I actually went to check out the new Code of Points because I wanted to brush up and upgrade my old perfect imaginary routines. Yeah, I know, I told you – o b s e s s e d. But in my defence, those routines are the shit in my head. Trust me on this, the gymnastics language is strong in this one, but it is actually educational because it hits you with facts from time to time. It isn’t a bad thing to know a thing or two about this great sport (even though it is a bit complicated sometimes even for us, the ancient gym fans. This sport rocks though). What I really loved about this was the mental health awareness that seemed to be the centre of the entire plot. Mental health is truly important in sports in general (and not only, but let’s focus on that right now) and sometimes, the athletes do not know how to cope with their own emotions. Abuse in sports is nothing new and, sadly, it is still largely practised. And I mean every kind of abuse – verbal (calling names), physical (physical punishments), sexual (harassment, molestation). As I previously said about a thousand times already, gymnastics is a tough sport. A gymnast must be in control over every single mini-muscle of their own body in order to perform the skills required to defy gravity and life. But a strong gymnast knows that aside from the strong body they have, they need to have a strong mind. Brain freezes and panic attacks are definitely common problems a gymnast might face. It happens to the most talented ones, the most decorated ones, the ones that have spent years already in the competition halls or just stepped inside a competition arena for the first time in their lives. Top that with the extreme push they have to give their bodies and an abusive, unhealthy coaching regime, add a tad of any sort of other harassment and there you go – someone has been fucked up for their next two lives. This book screams TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF. It is important to take care of yourself in an environment that may constantly cause you harm. Find the good in everything you’re doing and if there is no good there then you need to change that. Put yourself first and take care. You only live in this body once. Another important thing here is the importance of the relationships you have with the people around you. It is important to surround yourself with people that love you unconditionally and support your every move without questioning you. The people around you affect you directly so why bother surround yourself with toxic and selfish asswipes when you could just opt for the beautiful love others who are not afraid to show to you could give you? Sure, I might have loved to see more of Avery and Ryan. I think they were absolutely perfect for each other – they are sweet, cute and dorky together and every time they had a bit of time to talk, they were on the same page. They made me smile with their cuteness. Avery is still a simple, broken girl and Ryan is an adorable and selfless dork and they match like gloves. I would’ve also loved to see more interactions between Avery and her parents, even though I totally understand the need to escape their obsessive protection from time to time. One should always give back to their parents the love they received but also, it is important to have your independence as a grown-up person, especially when you think you are a failure (oops). Additional points for Avery’s friendships though. She didn’t have many friends (actually, she had none), but when she did manage to make some, they were keepers. I loved the way they helped each other out and supported each other and that they were genuinely there for each other. Good and trustworthy friendships should be hyped and I mean it. After reading it from cover to cover, I realised that this book was the perfect analogy for the life of a gymnast – the sport itself occupies let’s say 85% of your entire life. What is outside gymnastics is what remains of you as a being – not much socialising, not much relationship talk, too little normal friendships. But still, one wants all of them to be there and happen.
Head Over Heels
sums up pretty well the life some chose to have to live. And I think this book is a perfect metaphor. ( Book-styled )
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