• Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2020 September #1
  Coach Williams has her hands full with the boys of the Kings Row fencing team. She knows aren't won with individuals, they're won with teams, but this team isn't clicking yet. Captain Harvard is so eager to think about everybody's needs that he's neglecting his own, while his best friend, Aiden, has broken more guys' hearts than Coach Williams can count. Then there are the freshmen: scholarship-student Nicholas, who has raw talent but no training, and his roommate Seiji, a top-ranked fencer who lacks social skills. While Nicholas and Seiji feel out a tentative friendship—one that involves pranks, well-meaning bros, and some very firm boundaries—Aiden struggles to hide his feelings for Harvard, whose friendship is the only constant in his life. Part sports story, part romance, this novelization of C. S. Pacat's comic series is a laugh-out-loud funny dive into camaraderie and identity, featuring a high-interest but little-seen sport. A satisfying but open ending will leave readers eager for the next installation in this worthy adaptation. Grades 8-11. Copyright 2020 Booklist Reviews.

Sarah Rees Brennan is the No. 1 New York Times bestselling YA author of over a dozen books, both solo and co-written with authors including Kelly Link and Maureen Johnson. She was long-listed for the Carnegie for her first novel. She was born in Ireland by the sea and lives there now in the shadow of a cathedral, where she's working on--among other things--her series of tie-in novels with the hit Netflix show The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. Her most recent standalone novel, In Other Lands, is a tale of love, friendship and wings starring the crankiest boy to ever stumble into a magic land and was a Lodestar Award and Mythopoeic Award finalist.