Skater Boy by Mary Catherine Gebhard
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

She was spring. She was light. She was forbidden fruit I promised myself I would only taste, not bruise or bite. As she trembled like I knew she would, I knew I wouldn’t let go. I couldn’t.

Skater Boy is my first book by Mary Catherine Gebhard and I was definitely impressed. Skater Boy was simply outstanding. I loved the sweet, sexy, angsty story and absolutely can. not. wait. for more books in the Patchwork House Series.

They were the Rebel Gods of Heaven Falls, and their religion was sin, debauchery, and corruption…and they were worshipped as they should be.

We weren’t villains; we were outsiders.

As a blogger, I have gotten introduced to so many new authors over the last 3 years. And Mary Catherine Gebhard is definitely one that I am grateful I had the opportunity to discover. I can’t wait to find more of her stories to read. As for Skater Boy, I have so much that I loved about this dual POV, YA sports romance. The characters really grabbed my attention. Flip and Tweetie have the most amazing chemistry and the sweet, sexy, slow burn romance that Mary Catherine Gebhard delivered was undeniably entertaining. But it wasn’t just Flip and Tweetie that stole my heart. The other three boys that make up the Patchwork House rebels—the Rebel Gods, outsiders who started a house for other outsiders to call home—King, Daniel, and Romeo are immensely intriguing. And while my blog schedule is always packed, I have every intention of stalking this author daily so that I can get a jump on the release of any of their stories. Not going to lie, while I understand the next book will be for King, there is something about Daniel has me beyond enthralled and I desperately want his story. I love that authors are starting to include skateboarding as the sport of choice in their stories. I am not personally a skater, but I see the skill it takes, and the sport has fascinated me for some time. So, reading books that include skateboarding as the sport of choice, is a fun twist to some of the books within this trope. Skater Boy was well written and readers are going to love it. As a blogger, I pride myself on honest reviews, and that’s truly the only reason I am going to mention the next bit. While Skater Boy was an excellent story, one I have every intention of reading again, it was not without minor concerns. I felt the story was a little slower paced and the flow was slightly skewed at times with some rough transitions. Regardless, the average reader is unlikely to notice such issues, and the storyline of Skater Boy kept me very intrigued regardless of the pace and flow. And while I mention these, they held little sway in my ranking of the story.

Quotes:

When I saw her, all of my self-control, what was left of my morals, go haywire. I’d only ever done one right thing. Years ago when the accident happened, I moved out of Patchwork and forced King and the guys to bring Tweetie in. I stayed away. Then, one chance encounter brought me back. I became her shadow. It wasn’t until age sixteen that I started to see her differently. I fought it; of course I fought it. Tweetie was the little girl I taught, the little girl we saved. But when she was a few weeks from eighteen, I fell. Hard…

I love you. I’m so fucking in love with you. It’s ripped me apart since you were a teenager. It will continue to rip me apart. I just don’t want it to rip you apart too.

Flip was my everything, but he should have had everything— been everything.

I couldn’t leave, but if I stayed, I couldn’t have her either. I was fucked in the head. Possessive of a girl I’d started to want when she was sixteen, a girl I’d started to need when she was seventeen, and a girl I’d fallen head over heels for when she was barely eighteen.

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