Sharp Endless need, Shelley’s review – the book review team
Cut an endless need
Marisa Crane
Date of publication: May 13, 2025
Casual House for Putting Houses | The Press for the Dial
272 pages
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Genre: General Fiction LGBTQIAP+ | Adult
This book is very moving and emotional about age, love and loss. It’s about Mack, a superstar basketball player whose life is turned upside down when her father dies. Then Liv, a new teammate at school, enters the brawl. It was such a beautiful story about the first love, the discovery of yourself, and then the additional pressure to be a star player and all the expectations of it. The connection of Mak and Liv is sweet, raw and true, and the author brilliantly explores everything that comes with the first love.
The location of the small town of Pennsylvania in the early Noughts added some nostalgia. Do you remember MIXTAPES? Crane writes beautiful prose and characters. I loved how to depict the struggles of the characters and how Mack was looking for his true identity all the time as he grieved his father’s death. I’m not a basketball fan, but the games with the games were incredible. I could say how physical basketball is and how passionate Mack and Liv are for that.
This is a very touching book with some important questions. It is a testimony of love, romantic and other. This is also a reminder that even when there is a loss, there is always a promise of tomorrow and healing on the horizon.
Thank you to Netgalley and the Rainbow Publisher.
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