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Ella at Eden #9
Perfect Score
192 pages, Paperback
Published May 31, 2023
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January 11, 2024
For a long time in this book I didn’t really know what was happening but it did all make sense in the end. The different characters that you encounter are great.
I’m not really that into gymnastics and normal I don’t like books like this, but I didn’t mind it this time. The other things kind of block it out.
The ways the explore Graces learning troubles is really interesting to me. Like being scared to tall everybody I get that but, hiding it from your friends I think is wrong.
I’m not really that into gymnastics and normal I don’t like books like this, but I didn’t mind it this time. The other things kind of block it out.
The ways the explore Graces learning troubles is really interesting to me. Like being scared to tall everybody I get that but, hiding it from your friends I think is wrong.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
July 11, 2023
I started this series when I was 11. A slightly older age than what the author intended, possibly. However, even now, I still follow the series, because I have been invested in the 'Ella-verse', if you may call it that, since I was about 7, and I feel obligated to read about how Ella, my trusty book companion, is doing, even though I'm now way older than the target audience.
I have my thoughts and opinions on every single book in this series so far. However, I need not write all of them down here. I'll simply just state what I think of this book.
Perfect Score is a book about 12-year-old Ella, who does gymnastics. She travels to the Southern Beaches (a quick nod to the Northern Beaches in Sydney) for the upcoming tournament. While she's there, the team trains with the talented gymnasts there and solve a mystery along the way.
Compared to my opinion on the previous few books, this book felt like an improvement. Sorry if you liked the previous books but I didn't. Probably because I'm older than the target audience, so take my words with a grain of salt.
The gymnastics terminology was mostly correct. My friend does gymnastics, and told me about what she thought of the technical gymnastics references in the book. Most were correct, but some were a little bit dodgy. That's okay though.
I also feel like a lot of the author's research was based off the documentary/film 'A Second Chance'. Basically, 'A Second Chance' is about these Level 6 girls who are going to a gymnastics tournament. While there, they train with boys to help them get stronger, but there's also a rival team who makes them feel hopeless. This one girl also has trouble with a particularly tricky move, and even injures herself trying to do so. Eventually, the girls win, and that girl who was struggling with the tricky move pulls it off at the competition.
Sound familiar?
Another thing that I will mention is that I would have liked more mystery. The mystery feels like a very minor part of the story, and it's only tossed in there out of tradition. More focus on the mystery, and perhaps a bit more tension, would have done wonders.
No hate to this book, or the Ella franchise in general. These are just my personal thoughts and opinions.
Overall, good kids' book, though lots of elements were predictable and shallow, and it felt like a copy of 'A Second Chance', and I would have liked more mystery. Maybe I'm just getting too old.
I have my thoughts and opinions on every single book in this series so far. However, I need not write all of them down here. I'll simply just state what I think of this book.
Perfect Score is a book about 12-year-old Ella, who does gymnastics. She travels to the Southern Beaches (a quick nod to the Northern Beaches in Sydney) for the upcoming tournament. While she's there, the team trains with the talented gymnasts there and solve a mystery along the way.
Compared to my opinion on the previous few books, this book felt like an improvement. Sorry if you liked the previous books but I didn't. Probably because I'm older than the target audience, so take my words with a grain of salt.
The gymnastics terminology was mostly correct. My friend does gymnastics, and told me about what she thought of the technical gymnastics references in the book. Most were correct, but some were a little bit dodgy. That's okay though.
I also feel like a lot of the author's research was based off the documentary/film 'A Second Chance'. Basically, 'A Second Chance' is about these Level 6 girls who are going to a gymnastics tournament. While there, they train with boys to help them get stronger, but there's also a rival team who makes them feel hopeless. This one girl also has trouble with a particularly tricky move, and even injures herself trying to do so. Eventually, the girls win, and that girl who was struggling with the tricky move pulls it off at the competition.
Sound familiar?
Another thing that I will mention is that I would have liked more mystery. The mystery feels like a very minor part of the story, and it's only tossed in there out of tradition. More focus on the mystery, and perhaps a bit more tension, would have done wonders.
No hate to this book, or the Ella franchise in general. These are just my personal thoughts and opinions.
Overall, good kids' book, though lots of elements were predictable and shallow, and it felt like a copy of 'A Second Chance', and I would have liked more mystery. Maybe I'm just getting too old.
August 20, 2023
3.5
I really enjoyed this book. Most dance and gymnastics books are not very interesting to me although this one did catch my attention
I really enjoyed this book. Most dance and gymnastics books are not very interesting to me although this one did catch my attention
April 2, 2024
short and easy but good.I read it ages ago but now reread it.
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