Making Waves (Scenarios, #4) (2024)

Incredible story about life choices

I love that the story didnt skirt away from the difficult truths that happen to us and cause us to slip up as Christians. This story has 2 endings you decide the ending. We worth reading.

Great story!

I definitely recommend this book for high school age youths. It is a wonderful way to talk about choices. I would read more by this author.

*It's also posted in It's All About Books*

This is one of the first books that I received through Net Galley. The other book is Magna. The publisher combined these two books and put Risky Business as the title. I think I prefer to review it one by one.

In Making Waves, I met Kate Walker. She was left by many people she loved. One of them is Julia, her best friend, who moved to another town. So she has no friend to talk to and shared everything. She still has a great and lovely mother. But it would be different. And that explained why she felt so lonely.

Then one day, Kate decided to join the swim team to ease the pain. Just in one training season, she directly become the stars. In few day, she was already become a part of the team. Her couch prepared her to participate in State competition. No need to wonder why. Kate was a great and avid swimmer. Since then, her schedule become so tight. It made her really exhausted. Then, one offer that sound promising was approached. It made her become so confused. In one side, it could help her get more energy. In other side, she knew it so well, it was illegal. What a dilemma!

I liked many things from this book. It has simple word choice, nice plot and also sweet ending for everyone. There was one scene that touched my heart. My eyes were teary because of it. From all the characters. Kate's mother was my favorite.

Just like in Magna, you can get two different endings in one book. They let you choose. But I did not do it. Because I was just too curious. So I read both of them. I wanted to know how the plot ran for each options.

Cover
The setting is drawn well in the cover. The color combination is also nice. I liked it. But in my imagination, Kate is more beautiful than the model above. However it's not stated in the book.

Review by Jill Williamson

An avid lake swimmer, sophom*ore Kate Walker tries out for the swimming team. Not only does she make the team, she makes varsity and becomes the best swimmer on the team. Her coach talks with her about the future and the possibilities of college scholarships. Kate is excited, but her new schedule has her so busy, it's hard to keep up. Some of the other girls on the team share their secret with Kate: coffee and energy drinks. Kate knows that her coach probably wouldn't like them drinking so much caffeine, but it's legal, so it's okay, right? But as the season progresses to the state championship and the opportunity to set a new record and impress a college scout, Kate is beyond stresses out. When her teammates offer her a way to get through the day that Kate knows is illegal, what will she do?

You decide.

This is another Choose Your Own Scenario book, where you read all about Kate's life and then choose what she will do next. Then the book has two alternate endings, one for each choice Kate could make.

I love this series! Whether Kate chose to break the law or stay true to her convictions, she was able to push through the consequences and find redemption. The enormity of the choice she faced played out in both endings and showed how much power one right or wrong choice can make in a person's life.

I highly recommend this series to all girls. These are fun stores with relatable characters that give the reader a chance to see two sides of one choice.

I love the concept behind Nicole's books. Tell wonderful stories about girls living through everyday situations and then let the reader choose the outcome.

In each book, a main character eventually has to make hard decision. She must choose to either rely on her faith, the advice and counsel of family or church members OR go along with her peers. Once the reader makes their decision they move to the portion of the book where that story is continued. (I of course read both paths).

Nicole really encourages the reader to think long and hard about what they would REALLY do. Not the easy answer, not the spiritual answer or the answer they know to be right. But, if the reader were in the same situation, what would they do?

As all parents and former teenagers know, young adults don't tend to think ahead or consider the ramifications of their decisions. Nicole's books give the reader that opportunity.

I highly encourage these books for young adults. They are quick and easy reads with a wonderful message!

Natural swimmer Katie joins the high school swim team and faces some moral dilemmas. I'm an avid swimmer and lifelong competitor and the sport was portrayed in a way that was believable and easy to relate to and helped me connect deeply with the character. I also felt the moral dilemmas presented were very realistic and some scenes had my stomach in knots because I wanted so badly for her to make the right choices. I am not a big fan of religious reads, but overall this book didn't come across as preachy with one exception... (Spoiler alert) I was disappointed that Katie chose to break off the romance with Mark when they seemed so compatible together. I'm a big believer in true love and it felt like the author was trying to deliver a message that a high school romance is immoral, which bothered me.

This book was awesome!

ok

Loved every minute of it. I found it really cute

Great book to help young women in making choices that may come up, even with good kids in school!

This book had a pretty good story line, but I am not a fan of the multiple endings. They were both unoriginal and left a sour taste in my mouth.