The Boston Blue

Jessie Jamie Coleman
Autumn Girl Press (2006)
ISBN 0976696479
Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (12/06)

 “The Boston Blue” is a fast-action, 120-page screen play. The author, Jessie Jamie Coleman, manages to incorporate a lot of intense issues into the scenes. This was the first time that I have ever read a screen play. After adjusting to the format, I was able to follow along quite well. Coleman incorporates a lot of detail into her scenes, so they are easy to visualize.

Jessie Winters, female basketball player for the WNBA Boston Blues team is going head to head against Jay Bird of the NBA Chicago Voyagers. Actually, the two teams are playing against each other to determine whether men or women are better basketball players, but the chemistry between these two is what everybody sees escalating and that is where the action is really at.

There are some problems facing these two. Jay is engaged to a weak, unstable woman. His mother adores her and is worried about her. She is not the love of his life, but as his mom is dying, she makes Jay promise not to leave her. Jay tries to keep that promise, but his attraction to Jessie creates difficulties. His fiancé sees this and the repercussions are horrible. Jay is also friends with an egotistical player on his team. Les has his own ideas about how much he can get away with in his personal life. This has devastating consequences for Jessie’s friend and teammate Mickey.

Jay himself is very egotistical and arrogant. These traits both attract and repel Jessie. They seem to attract her a lot more than repel her. She isn’t happy that he is going behind his fiancés back to try to win her over. She also learns some other things that he did that hurt her friend. But the attraction is there and the two are determined to win both on the court and off.

“The Boston Blue” is a fun story to read. I like the idea of professional male and female athletes playing against each other. I would love to see that happen in real life.

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