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Trolled
All Andy can think about is getting a chance to make the national swim team. He practises constantly to get his swim time down and he's saving money to pay the competition fees by working part-time at a comic book store. When a video of him flutterboard surfing makes him famous online, he uses the opportunity to crowdfund his trip to nationals.
But all that attention turns bad when he is convinced to prank a promising female swimmer on camera. Suddenly, Andy gets banned from the nationals, gets kicked off his swim team and loses his part-time job. Threats and negative comments force him to unplug completely. With the help of a friend, he finally comes up with way to apologize, acknowledge his stupidity and try to get his life and good name back.
But all that attention turns bad when he is convinced to prank a promising female swimmer on camera. Suddenly, Andy gets banned from the nationals, gets kicked off his swim team and loses his part-time job. Threats and negative comments force him to unplug completely. With the help of a friend, he finally comes up with way to apologize, acknowledge his stupidity and try to get his life and good name back.
144 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 22, 2016
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About the author
Steven Sandor
11 books13 followersWhen I'm not writing books, I'm the features editor at the Edmonton Journal/Postmedia. I'm the former editor of Edify Magazine.
I am also a freelance writer, whose works has been published in more than 100 magazines, collections and newspapers worldwide. I am a freelance sports broadcaster, as well.
I like to listen to very loud music when I write. Like Slayer.
I am also a freelance writer, whose works has been published in more than 100 magazines, collections and newspapers worldwide. I am a freelance sports broadcaster, as well.
I like to listen to very loud music when I write. Like Slayer.
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January 27, 2022
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I got an ARC in return for an honest review on NetGalley.
I got this book solely because I like the publisher. I am not a big fan of sports, sports books, or 14 year old jocks. Never been my thing, even when I was a 14 year old on a sports team. The book was far better than I expected. There was a lot of focus on swimming (handy glossary at the back to help with the terms, but if you have ever taken a swim lesson then you have most if not all of the lingo down). The real focus was not on swimming, but on one boy learning that intent and consequences aren’t always the same.
Andy was a great swimmer, mediocre at math, and pretty much a 14 year old boy when it came to girls and interacting with his peers. He was cocky, pulled pranks, and didn’t know how to apologize. Through the course of the book Andy learns a lesson that many adults are still fighting about “intent does not matter when you hurt someone”. Andy didn’t mean to hurt someone. He hurt her in a way that he didn’t even understand. He had to learn that others have different rules and different feelings. He learned this through hurting two girls in his life. This is a huge issue when it comes to race and racism. People say that they didn’t mean anything racist, but that doesn’t stop it from being racist. Andy, with the help of one girl he hurt, learns that lesson. He learns about himself and he learns about others. That is HUGE. I am so impressed that a YA book covered it and covered it so brilliantly.
The formatting was a bit off in the first section of the book, but that was not an issue again. That is also amazing. A great deal of the books I have read lately on an ereader have been formatted terribly and at times are unintelligible because of it.
I got an ARC in return for an honest review on NetGalley.
I got this book solely because I like the publisher. I am not a big fan of sports, sports books, or 14 year old jocks. Never been my thing, even when I was a 14 year old on a sports team. The book was far better than I expected. There was a lot of focus on swimming (handy glossary at the back to help with the terms, but if you have ever taken a swim lesson then you have most if not all of the lingo down). The real focus was not on swimming, but on one boy learning that intent and consequences aren’t always the same.
Andy was a great swimmer, mediocre at math, and pretty much a 14 year old boy when it came to girls and interacting with his peers. He was cocky, pulled pranks, and didn’t know how to apologize. Through the course of the book Andy learns a lesson that many adults are still fighting about “intent does not matter when you hurt someone”. Andy didn’t mean to hurt someone. He hurt her in a way that he didn’t even understand. He had to learn that others have different rules and different feelings. He learned this through hurting two girls in his life. This is a huge issue when it comes to race and racism. People say that they didn’t mean anything racist, but that doesn’t stop it from being racist. Andy, with the help of one girl he hurt, learns that lesson. He learns about himself and he learns about others. That is HUGE. I am so impressed that a YA book covered it and covered it so brilliantly.
The formatting was a bit off in the first section of the book, but that was not an issue again. That is also amazing. A great deal of the books I have read lately on an ereader have been formatted terribly and at times are unintelligible because of it.
July 11, 2019
I just had a hard time getting into this one. I'm not sure why; maybe because I knew what kind of a big screw-up the kid was going to make. The book overall was very realistic and I felt like the author portrayed the mc's feelings well. Also, the consequences of his actions seemed accurate. Still, I probably won't recommend this one to my patrons unless the situation and request are specific enough that I feel this book is the only good fit (for example, they request a book about internet trolling or pranks, or high school swimming competitions).
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