Tell me why this was my favorite TJR book and I don’t know a damn thing about tennis 😂 🎾 🤷🏼♀️
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👟CARRIE SOTO IS BACK by Taylor Jenkins Reid 👟
Six years ago, Carrie Soto was the best female tennis player in the world — she’d also argue (and the stats would support it) best in the world overall, but no one is asking her. The book starts with Carrie and Javier, her dad/former coach, watching Nicki Chan match her record of 20 Grand Slam titles. The 37-year-old decides she’s going to come out of retirement to take on Chan and defend her career. With the help of Javier, and another tennis player way past his prime, Bowe Huntley, Carrie busts her ass to get back on top.
I seriously know nothing about tennis. It’s always been a confusing sport to me and honestly? I didn’t really need to understand it. TJR has such a beautiful way of explaining things *just* the right amount to readers to make sure they’re not lost but also not drowning in details. Plus, you just GET Carrie by the first quarter of the book. She’s such a consistent and wonderful character. I mean she’s a total beast and bad ass and WAY way cocky and is kind of oblivious to how rude she is but wow do you still just root for her.
I have to shout out to the entire cast of characters. Javier. Bowe. Gwen. Nicki. God just all of them were such key parts to the book. The Javier-Carrie relationship will always have a special place in my heart. My dad and I loved basketball. He loved going to my games and shooting hoops with me, and those are some of my fondest memories with him.
Fun fact! There was the littlest bit of Greek mythology in here! Javier calls Carrie his little Achilles — greatest of all the Greeks!
And yes I cried like a baby reading this beaut of a book. What else is new.
Read if… sports movies always make you tear up and if you love a comeback story.
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