Synopsys:Life is looking up for D.J. Schwenk. She's made it to eleventh grade, finally. After a rocky summer, she's reconnecting with her best friend, Amber. She's got kind of a thing going with Brian Nelson, who's cute and popular and smart but seems to like her anyway. Plus there's the fact that she's playing for the Red Bend High School football team as probably the first girl linebacker in northern Wisconsin.
But then the season, which began so well, starts to go suddenly, horribly wrong. As autumn progresses, D.J. struggles to understand what's happening with football, Brian, Amber, and most of all her family. And as her life turns completely upside down, she discovers she's a lot stronger than she--or anyone--ever thought.
My Rating: 6/10
My Thoughts:
I really enjoyed the first book in this series, but was a little let down by this one. The Off Season seemed to keep stressing all thing things I didn't like about Dairy Queen, like the fact that she can't ever say what she wants, and move away from all the things I did like, for example, football.
Even the love story got a little old. I never could really tell if Brian was a positive influence or a negative influence on D.J.'s life and because I was so back and forth about him, I was never really into the romance of this book.
Overall the book was entertaining enough to keep me going, I wanted to see where it would end up, but not nearly as good as the first one.
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