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Title: Carrie Soto is
Back
Author: Taylor
Jenkins Reid
Publication date: 30
August 2022
Pages: 369 pages
ISBN: 9781529152128
Language:
English
BLURB
Carrie Soto
is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular.
By the time
Carrie retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She
has shattered every record and claimed twenty Slam titles. And if you ask her,
she is entitled to every one. She sacrificed nearly everything to become the
best, with her father as her coach.
But six
years after her retirement, Carrie finds herself sitting in the stands of the
1994 US Open, watching her record be taken from her by a brutal, stunning,
British player named Nicki Chan.
At
thirty-seven years old, Carrie makes the monumental decision to come out of
retirement and be coached by her father for one last year in an attempt to
reclaim her record. Even if the sports media says that they never liked the
'Battle-Axe' anyway. Even if her body doesn't move as fast as it did. And even
if it means swallowing her pride to train with a man she once almost opened her
heart to: Bowe Huntley. Like her, he has something to prove before he gives up
the game forever.
REVIEW
Thank you
NetGalley and Random House UK, Cornerstone for the ARC! I left review here
voluntarily.
Honestly, this
is my first time reading TJR books! I already know how amazing her book is and
some of them are already on my TBR but I don’t have any mood to read it yet.
Until I saw this on NetGalley, when I read the blurb it’s about an athlete,
retired one, wanting to comeback to play. I think this is interesting and a “fresh”
one on my reading journey, but I believe I won’t get the book. Fortunately, I
have my luck and got this book!
This book is a
hardcore about sport especially in tennis. We will follow Carrie’s journey since
the beginning until she decided to comeback after retired from tennis. I love
how TJR explain to us how much tennis means for Carrie and her father. We know
that her father is the main reason why she is so crazy about tennis. From she
is still a little child, her father already trains her as tennis player. I also
love how to the point this book is. In less than 400 pages we get all the
journey of Carrie from beginning until she held the record, what kind of life
she lives, the conflict on her journey until she trains again to comeback.
Like I said
before, this book is full of tennis tournaments. It could be hit or miss for
some people. People might be bored while reading this, but I enjoy every
moment. It even feels like I watched it directly not just by words. I think
this book is suitable for me because I love to watch sport tournaments (especially
badminton) and I love the excitement on the tournament, the stress, the hope
that the athlete we like will wins the match. And I got that excitement with
reading this book. Following the match after match, all the hardships Carrie
went through. It feels real because the comeback is hard for Carrie and TJR
didn’t just throw the winning for Carrie. I even love the ending! Despite all the
wishes for Carrie as I read the book, but the ending still feels great.
Carrie is not
an easy character to love. She is cold, hard to open her heart, saying whatever
she wants and didn’t think about others at all. She even called B**** by
commentator. But I think she got a good development, not suddenly become nice
or anything but she is progressing to open her heart and trying to understand
other. I also love her relationship with her father. Her father really loves
her unconditionally even when Carrie so means to him, but he always stands by
her side. The way he always supports her decision, train her to be the best. We
will see so many interactions between this father and daughter.
Even though
this book will be full of training and tournaments, but the author beautifully inserts
love story here. Fortunately, the romance is not covering the main story of this
book. I think the romance become a fresh side from all heavy stuff about
tennis. I love Carrie love story, actually I love the man. The way he always stays
with her no matter how hard she rejects him. The way he stays with her when she
is in the lowest, knowing her and accept her also unconditionally. It is so mature,
and I really love this kind of romance.
You are perfect, even in your imperfection
One thing I didn’t
like is when the characters converse in Spanish. But we didn’t get any
translation of what they are saying. At first I will check online dictionary
what the meaning is, but I read the book offline so sometimes I didn’t get to open
the dictionary and just let it go. And this Spanish thing is quite a lot in
this book so sometimes I didn’t know what they are talking about. Just hoping on
physical book will be added the translation.
I give the
book 4.5/5 ⭐ I think this one is for me. I enjoy everything and love to
follow the tournaments here. If you love sport especially tennis maybe this book
is for you!
1 Comments
Wahh cepet banget udah baca iniii! Ada di TBR-ku juga nihh, jadi penasaran mau baca jugaa 😆
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