This book, gosh this book. Can one game of chess change your life? It did for Mallory and Nolan. Listen, I know nothing about chess and I was riveted with the tension of the matches, stressed, and just sucked in. There was just enough info it wasn't overwhelming and it made me honestly want to go enter a chess match and go find my match. What Ali does so well in every book is describe being a woman in male dominated spaces, how you're treated, what it's like and Mallory walking the halls of the male dominated chess world was no different.
Gosh, Mallory. Soft on the outside, but hard on the inside, the weight of the world and her family on her shoulders. Self sacrificing to the point it's hurting her, she falls into playing chess again. And the joy it brings her, the friendships, opening her world back up, and finding herself in a different place (I adored her sisters and those relationships).
Gosh, Mallory. Soft on the outside, but hard on the inside, the weight of the world and her family on her shoulders. Self sacrificing to the point it's hurting her, she falls into playing chess again. And the joy it brings her, the friendships, opening her world back up, and finding herself in a different place (I adored her sisters and those relationships).