Grace “Ace” Kincaid is a tennis superstar in every sense of the word. The looks, fame, money. Suddenly the flash of whatever superstardom can offer has faded. The Ace has thrown the towel and has chosen to be a normal teen. She has chosen to end a multimillion dollar career because she is lost and doesn’t know the girl looking back from the mirror.
With the support of her mom and aunt, Grace went to Alaska, where she will live a life different from “Ace”, now as Emily. In a place with only more than 800 in population, Emily tries to fit in. There, she is just the normal teen she wanted to be. The simple life that this place has offer had opened Grace (or Emily) to her heart’s desires and eventually found her old self. Part of it is finding Teague who accepted her as Emily. Now what happens when he discovers that Emily is not really Emily but Grace Kincaid, the lost superstar?
As Grace has come into terms of finding her old self and realizing what is important to her, she decided to go back into tennis at her own terms. She is playing with renewed heart, for the love of the game, and only for the stardom that comes with the package. Realizing that with the given opportunity, she can do more in her capacity to inspire and financially help a lot of people, she went back to being Grace “Ace” Kincaid.
In this time when young achievers had more opportunities to shine from their hobbies and interests from sports to other talents such as singing, acting, dancing, and a lot more, this book give a glimpse of what happens in the mind of such achiever. Some international young stars as we see in the spotlight eventually get drowned in their fame that their rebellious or sometimes uncharacteristic acts are published in news with the same instant hit.
The birth of young adults fiction from Harry Potter to Twilight show that the influence of adolescent life to any stage of life has a great impact to what can happen in the future. Particularly for the book, Amazing Grace, this is another young adult book that delivers the kind of lessons that need to be learned early on. Simply, we’ve heard so many time, “much is given, much is expected…”
Author: Megan Shull
Publisher: Hyperion
Fiction, Young Adult
ISBN 0-7868-5690-2 (tr.)
ISBN 0-7868-5691-2 (pbk.)
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