When Karen’s parents die in a tragic car accident, she moves in with her elite gymnastics coach and his teenage son. Karen learns how to deal with her new living arrangements while also trying to grieve her parents and figure out her plans for the future.

This book is kind of tragic. It’s definitely no light hearted romance. It was interesting to take a look into the world of elite gymnastics, but there was definitely a lot more going on than just that. It was almost hard to keep up with, and I couldn’t take it seriously most of the time.

I felt bad for Karen a lot, and sometimes I was embarrassed for her. But she did have some sweet moments with Jordan. Jordan kind of felt like he was two different people to me. He was confident and crude one moment only to be shy and innocent the next. It didn’t quite make sense to me. I almost quit reading this book multiple times (I was close to being done, and I really needed to finish a book to try and get out of a reading slump), and one of those times was when he mentioned stealing a pair of Karen’s underwear. No. Just no.

My favorite part of the book was Jordan’s terrible relationship with his father. His moments of acting out and being a moody teenager around his dad made sense. When it came to all of the other characters in the book, there was a lot of walking around on eggshells. But these two fought and yelled at each other, and I thought it was great.

The female main character is a gymnast—there’s a lot of discussion of puberty, menstruation, and developing bodies. The group of girls compare their bodies as well as Karen and Jordan discussing her developing body parts. It also talks a lot about diets including counting calories and sugar intake. And, one of the female coaches at the gym recently had a baby. I’m not exaggerating when I say that breastfeeding is mentioned very unnecessarily at least 10 times throughout the book. It was annoying.

There were some nice moments, but I don’t know that I would recommend.