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Get Out #3

The Obstruction of Emma Goldsworthy

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It’s hard to live in Micah Johnson’s shadow, but Emma Goldsworthy is determined to make it out from under there. Emma’s studying hockey and trying to find her way at the Australian Institute of Sport, but it’s hard to keep her spirits up when her ex—who dumped Emma so she could remain in the closet—returns from an exchange program with a new American girlfriend in tow. Emma doesn’t want her ex back, but she can’t seem to convince everyone else that they’re over. Plus, there’s another girl Emma can’t stop thinking about, even though she only saw her once… while in costume. There was chemistry, but Emma doesn’t know her name, or even what she looks like. 

200 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 17, 2018

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Sean Kennedy

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Sean Kennedy lives in the second-most isolated city in the world, thinks there are thylacines still out in the wild, and eagerly awaits the return of Twin Peaks in 2017.

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714 reviews1,106 followers
July 23, 2018
This was an okay read.

"The Obstruction of Emma Goldsworthy" is the third book in the "Get Out" series and I haven't read the first two books. This can be read as a standalone as the author did a decent job relaying the important info but I could tell I was missing out on a good amount of backstory, too.

This time we follow Emma, who is a twenty-year-old single lesbian and a university level field hockey player whose goal it is to climb the professional sports ladder.

The storyline is a mix of her romantic pursuit of the costumed stranger she met at a party months before, dealing with her ex who's come back into the picture, and supporting her gay male friends through their drama. Though the book has a sports theme, we basically see none of it in action. All plot lines have something to do with relationships or maturing.

Emma herself is a snarky character fighting her insecurities and falling in love at the same time. She stands out as a good friend.

The story was entertaining enough and I liked the geeky elements that cropped in with cosplay. It was also nice to see lesbians and gay men in strong friendships and getting along. For whatever reason, I rarely see this reflected in lesfic.

Unfortunately, I thought Emma's love interest ended up being fairly generic and there's a bit of instalust/love (minus the "I love you" declarations) but the author at least made fun of it and actually chalked it up to being swept up in the endorphins of a new relationship. Note, the sex scenes are all fade to black. Emma is only twenty and, on one hand, I could see some immaturity in the spats she'd have with her girlfriend but, at the same time, Hallelujah! Emma and her beau worked out their differences IN the fights. How often have I seen this in lesfic? Uh, once before?

This is a male author which in no way detracted from the quality or authenticity of the story and perhaps was a saving grace in avoiding lesbian tropes that we see so often. He also happened to have Emma make a menstrual period joke. Amazing!

The overall takeaway was that this was a cute and somewhat sweet story with some snark and friendship drama. 3.5 stars.
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1,661 reviews312 followers
April 6, 2024
Of all the books in these two interlinked series, this is the only one that I don't like.

In all of the previous books where Emma is featured, I really like her character. She knows what she wants, she's confident about it and she cares about her friends but hates their drama. I know she's young, but she seems to regress so much personality wise in this one.

In her own book, Emma just comes across as bitter and negative, and obsessed with talking about her ex Trish even when she finally gets together with her new girlfriend Jess. Trish is mentioned ALL THE TIME!! Not exaggerating, I feel like every time her and Jess are together they always mention Trish at least once. I felt sorry for Jess because we never really get to know her properly.

All of a sudden Emma is two different characters and I don't know which one is the real her. She suddenly has a huge chip on her shoulder and is so resentful towards Micah and his achievements and his sport, yet she says he's her best friend and she goes out of her way to help him with his relationship difficulties and console him when he's upset. She never came across as two faced before, but she never seriously talks about how she feels about everything with Micah, but she's always been such an advocate of talking about what's bothering you. It made the friendship feel more transactional and one sided than it ever has before and that was a shame because they genuinely seemed to be close and supportive of each other before.

Emma seems to have lost all of her confidence and seems genuinely surprised when others point out how talented she is and that she does have a lot of opportunities coming her way. Yeah they aren't the same as the AFL opportunities Micah has but they are opportunities. She comes across as a genuine spoilt brat at times, and that's coming from someone who loves how bratty Micah is!!! The difference is that Micah is well aware of his behaviour and how he comes across and is actively trying to change his behaviour. Emma is oblivious of how she behaves seemingly. She also invites so much drama to her life when she always claimed to hate it. Yet all of this drama happens because all of a sudden she's no longer concise and clear in what she says so there are miscommunications and ambiguity with EVERYONE she interacts with. This book from her perspective actually made me dislike her character, and that made me sad because up until this book she was the most likeable female character in this series.

My favourite part of this book actually ends up being all of the Micah content, which is something the character of Emma would think was typical! I still hate every other love interest that Micah has that isn't Will... But even Emma's friendship with Will is forgotten about. He pops up in a text once or twice, and then we see him in the epilogue, but they were close too and he was left out. Yes I am a HUGE Will Deanes fan and will defend him at all costs!

I still love these two series overall, but I always find myself pretending most of Emma's book didn't happen because I hate that she has such a backwards character arc - this self-doubting whiny shell of a character just doesn't feel like her at all.
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998 reviews68 followers
April 18, 2018
This book was provided for free by the author and Love Bytes in exchange for an honest review.

This review was first posted to Love Bytes: LGBTQ Book Reviews. It has been slightly edited here for content.

I love a lady who plays sports, and I love Emma Goldsworthy! You couldn’t ask for a better character to spend 200 pages with. This book is funny, sweet, relatable, romantic, and wonderfully queer. I was smiling the entire time I read it, and I think you all will as well.

This is the third book in the “Get Out” series and the first F/F book in the universe. The “Get Out” series is a new adult spin-off series of Kennedy’s super popular “Tigers and Devils” books, which are adult romances. I haven't read any of the other books, and when I started reading the first "Get Out" book about Micah, I felt pretty lost--there was too much backstory that I didn't know about. But weirdly enough, I had less trouble with this book. It felt like a more contained story. If you’re already a Sean Kennedy fan, you’re in for a treat—some familiar faces make guest appearances alongside awesome new characters and points of view. I'm definitely putting the rest of the books in this universe on my to-read list.

This is a great new adult story with smart characters who feel comfortable in the queer community and have a sharp, modern outlook on life. They work to abolish ideas of biphobia and transphobia, they’re supportive of each other across all genders and sexualities (Emma and Micah totally end the idea of rivalry between gay men and women), and they embrace the idea of community among one another. And the dynamic between Emma and Jess is not only adorable, it doesn’t rely on drama to be sexy and exciting. They just fit well together, and they communicate like normal young women trying to figure each other out.

I think the genre itself is an important aspect of this book. As someone who came out in college and surrounded myself with a young crowd of LGBT friends, I sometimes feel isolated by how romances seem to be either about teenagers or older adults already established in their lives. The new adult genre has definitely been a game-changer in the past few years, providing us with stories about early-twenties adults who are just stumbling into adulthood and independence.

It’s rare for an author to write an F/F book when their usual stuff is M/M and even rarer if it is a part of a larger, M/M-focused universe, so I’m very happy to see such an awesome change in the LGBT romance culture. Kennedy writes F/F with warmth, humor, and affection, and I’d be happy to read any of his future works in any series or universe.
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341 reviews64 followers
April 17, 2018
Okay, I hadn't been this excited for a release in years. And it did not disappoint. Sean Kennedy never does. This book is approximately 85% drama, 10% psychopathic (don't worry, it's funny) dialogue, and 5% nerdy costumes and geeky references. And I, of course, loved every second of it.

I wasn't really sure what to expect going in. I still have a mad hangover from Micah Johnson Goes West (seriously I still cry when I think about it), and #2 is still my favourite in this series. And while this hasn't had as big an impact on me as book 2, Emma's story delivered in a way Micah's couldn't.

So like I said, I wasn't sure what to expect. Emma has a different relationship with Simon and Dec, and as such, they barely have five minutes of page time. But we do get to understand Emma as a friend, always offering support and advice, and in general being a steady rock for her friends, especially Micah. I never realised just how much she is relied upon, so it really showed me just how important it was for Emma to have a relationship with someone where she could open up to, and lean on someone else. I think that insight was really beautiful, probably one of my favourite things from the book.

Of course it wouldn't be a Get Out book without a boatload of Micah drama, and oh. My. Gosh. There isn't much I can say without spoiling it for y'all, so I'll just say if this series continues (which I really hope it does), it's going to be very interesting, and very emotional.

It doesn't pack anywhere near the emotional punch as book 2 (and I know it wasn't meant to), and, at least for me, book two will remain more memorable, but if you're a fan of this series, no doubt you'll enjoy this instalment.
2,839 reviews3 followers
April 16, 2019
A Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words Review

Rating: 4.5 stars out of 5

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From that review:Emma Goldsworthy is a great character.  Yes, we've met her  before and been intrigued by her strengths, and yes, flaws.  But here she shines as she struggles to find herself again.  She's adrift emotionally but not in her game and she's trying to find the girl she appears to be to everyone else but herself.  Her life is in flux as her ex is back in town with a new girl in tow.  The ex is a star athlete on the field, she met a girl at a Con but both were in costume and she left because of friend drama and never got her name.  And Micah, her friend, is having bf issues too.  Emma is feeling the weight of the world.

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1,607 reviews83 followers
April 19, 2018
In this 3rd book in the series Emma, Micah's best friend & confidant & promising hockey player, gets her own story. Away from Melborne at AIS and hoping to make it as a professional hockey player Emma has been all about sport till one night at a Halloween party she meets someone...only she doesn't get a name..and as they're both in fancy dress Emma as Kate Kane, the stranger as Malcolm Reynolds, it takes a while and.unexpected circumstances to meet again..Attraction is mutual, but the Emma's ex.is back to throw a spanner in the works.

These characters are young and not looking for happily ever after.. though there are several in jokes about lesbians moving in together on the 3rd date. There is a cautiously optimistic HFN ending but this is more about Emma's personal growth than a romance in the end

Micah and Kyle provides some outside drama .. And Will, who is recovering from the accident... some new characters like Alya, Emma's team mate, who are good fun

As with most of this authors work intimate scenes are fade to black

The story does end with a slightly ominous hint that all is not well with Simon and Declan.. so I wonder if we are going back to the adults soon
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1,068 reviews
July 22, 2018
4.5 stars

I’ve really enjoyed the characters Sean Kennedy has created in both the Tiger & Devils world, and it’s spin-off Get Out series, and Emma is no exception. I liked her as Micah’s friend in the previous books, and I loved getting to know her better as she got to take centre stage in her own story. This book is great addition to the series.
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4,795 reviews27 followers
April 22, 2019
Emma is, as always, an utter rock star! I loved seeing her full time, instead of just little bits of her in the middle of Micah's drama. And I especially loved her response to Jess when she asked where their relationship was heading: Classic Emma!
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2,468 reviews35 followers
August 21, 2020
What a disappointment. Although supposedly this is a book about Emma, she spends nearly as much time running around worrying about Micah’s romance as she does in her own. She’s doing emotional labor for the boys who never return the favor.

Although she jokes about the standard, overworn lesbian romance tropes (lesbian society is so small it’s incestuous, lesbians jump into relationships after a single date, etc) we don’t see anything other than that. The main obstruction to her romance is an ex everyone knows and she starts calling her date, her ‘girlfriend’ in about a nanosecond.

The girlfriend is barely fleshed out. We don’t learn enough about her to see her as a whole person, or even a quirky or interesting character. And I can’t picture her physically.

There’s one scene where the heroine feels lucky because she doesn’t have to worry as much as gay men do in locker rooms, because it must be harder to be surrounded by dicks than naked women (!). It summed up the book for me. The author, a gay man, can’t write women as full characters who have lives that don’t circle around men. He can’t see beyond stereotypes or put himself in a woman’s head.

That’s too bad. I don’t blame his gender - many woman authors write great male stories. Too bad the reverse couldn’t be true here.
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3,888 reviews
December 26, 2019
3.5*
Entertaining story, easy to read, fast paced writing style.
This is a character based story, so not my favourite type. And it is mostly about Emma helping her friends (Micah and Kyle, subjects of other books in the series) as well as pursuing her own new relationship.
This is NA?YA? (Never really sure of the distinction) but they are all 20 so any relationship drama is DRAMA, they are all in each others business. There are ex’s, friends, new opportunities- but for a sport based story, there wasn’t a lot of on page sport.
Whilst part of a series and able to read standalone, it is probably better to read all.
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182 reviews1 follower
November 12, 2021
Why did I wait so long?

I loved the whole Tigers and Devils series, and I loved Micah and the first two books in Get Out, so I’m not sure why it took me so long to read this one. I guess I just didn’t feel as much of a connection to Emma?

Ultimately this is a great book that I’ve been glued to all day. It’s lovely following these characters and their development, and it was nice finally determining that Emma plays field hockey, not ice hockey.

(Do they have ice hockey in Australia?)
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1,071 reviews77 followers
December 31, 2023
I liked it.

I liked reading about Emma and her struggles of finding love, dealing with friends who are in love and meeting ex-es.

I liked reading about the previous characters and knowing how their story goes on.

I wish we could have gotten a bit more of the sport.

All in all, a good read and I loved getting more of all the characters. :)
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Author 8 books159 followers
October 7, 2018
A bit too focused on Micah (the star of the first two books in the series) rather than Emma to be totally satisfying as a f/f romance.
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147 reviews1 follower
July 6, 2021
It felt weird. Like the book started in the middle of a story and ended in the middle of a story. There was like no conclusion. Still, it was an overall good book.
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634 reviews14 followers
August 6, 2018
3.5 stars. Snarky f/f NA about a lesbian field hockey player - this is the 3rd in the Get Out series, which is a spinoff of the Tigers and Devils series. And the first ff. It’s mostly stand alone, although there are references to events from past books. Like the rest of the Get Out series, this is NA/YA, not romance. There is a love story, but the core of the story is about Emma's growth.

I enjoyed this. There were parts that made me laugh out loud. Emma and her friends read like authentic late adolescents, which was both fun and exhausting to read about. There is so much drama - friendship drama, relationship drama, drama with exs and ex's exs. And feelings. So many feelings.
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