The Magic Broom
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781623808402 (1623808405)
Publish date: June 1st 2013
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Pages no: 70
Edition language: English
Series: 2013 Daily Dose: Make a Play
Cute and fluffy story about a reporter who's assigned to write a report about winter sports. As part of the assignment, he has to partake in the sports, which leads to humorous and somewhat painful situations. Fear not, the hunky curling team member is there to soothe his wounds. I picked this up...
I think this was one of the Dreamspinner Press Twitter freebies and I picked it to read because the Olympics are going on and this book features Curling which is perhaps the most ridiculous Olympic event. I was sort of hoping that this book would give me a bit of insight into the sport, but it didn'...
3.5Crash course in winter Olympic sports. I enjoyed the fast pace of this one as Cody rushes from one venue to the next participating and writing about Olympic hopefuls from an insider's perspective. The attraction between Shane, a curler, and Cody is fast but that works with the pacing of the story...
Unfortunately, this story just didn't work for me. I have no idea why the two guys hooked up. So much time was spent on all of the activities that Cody had to participate in, that almost no time was spent developing any kind of relationship between him and Shane. Plus, Cody was a bit of a whiner whi...
4.5 starsAlthough it lost it's steam a bit in the middle, all this trying out of sports got a bit repetitive, nevertheless it was funny and a joy to read. So far the best of this year's Daily Dose.