For Megan Woods, summer and sailboats are one and the same. There's nothing like the thrill of racing alongside her boyfriend, Jeff, captain of the yacht club sailing team. Unless it's the satisfaction she gets from teaching the Tadpoles, a group of younger kids, how to handle a boat.When Megan is asked to be the Tadpoles' fulltime coach for the summer, she's thrilled but torn by indecision. If she takes the job, she'll have to give up racing with the team. But will giving up the team mean giving up Jeff as well?
I liked the sailing setting for this book and the fact that she (a 16 year old girl) got the job of running the juniors. I didn’t like her boyfriend Jeff. Jeff was a bossy arsehole who deserved to get dumped. I wasn’t 100% sold on the new guy, Ben, either. For the most part he was great but it seemed as though both guys were a bit brusque in their manner. Even the Commodore seemed to let Jeff get his own way. Jeff was a douche.
L'idea di incentrarlo sulla vela è interessante, ma alla fine è la stessa autrice a declassare l'impegno nello sport prendendo sotto gamba il fatto di essersi qualificati per i trials olimpici.
La parte più interessante è quella dedicata alla vela, di cui sicuramente la Blake sapeva moltissimo. Le scene di manovra, sia durante la gara iniziale che durante gli allenamenti dei ragazzi guidati da Rolli, sono forse troppo dettagliate, portando il lettore non esperto a confondersi e accettare supinamente quello che viene scritto. Interessante l’approfondimento sul Soling, la barca capitanata da Alex/Jeff.
Complessivamente si tratta di un romanzo che avrebbe potuto dare molto di più se si fosse concentrato meglio a descrivere i personaggi nel loro complesso e se avesse raccontato il mondo olimpico con rispetto.
Synopsis (taken from http://sweetdreamsseries.com): For Megan Woods, summer and sailboats are one and the same. There's nothing like the thrill of racing alongside her boyfriend, Jeff, captain of the yacht club sailing team. Unless it's the satisfaction she gets from teaching the Tadpoles, a group of younger kids, how to handle a boat. When Megan is asked to be the Tadpoles' full-time coach for the summer, she's thrilled but torn by indecision. If she takes the job, she'll have to give up racing with the team. But will giving up the team mean giving up Jeff as well?