34.5k reviews for:

Carrie Soto Is Back

Taylor Jenkins Reid

4.25 AVERAGE

geskerna's review

5.0

funny hopeful informative inspiring

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

harsimran_'s review against another edition

4.5

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

abigbee17's review

4.5

emotional hopeful informative inspiring tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

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4.5⭐️’s…as I read this book, I lived back in the past with my Dad, who was an avid tennis player and taught me all about tennis. I am not a tennis player but remember watching Daddy play and watching matches on TV with him. So I thoroughly enjoyed this book although at first, Carrie was too damn arrogant (but I guess you must be in some ways to succeed at such a high level in tennis). I loved Javier and Bowe and Gwen and Nikki…I just loved this book!

carolinehope96's review

3.75

emotional hopeful tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I loved a lot of this book, but honestly, Carrie's dad dying--of a heart attack, after heart-related health issues already being used as a plot point--just felt a little trite. It's such a common plot line for older male characters, I feel like, and also really robbed readers of the chance to see a compicated but loving father-daughter relationship play out. I think my issue with this plot--not unique to Carrie Soto--is that once the older male character dies, they become kind of a sainted figure that other characters achievments are nebulously "for," rather than a rich and compex human being with flaws that we get to explore.

camillasini2010's review

5.0

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

hannah_mntna's review

2.0

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I love TJR and I thought the end of this book was great but for the first 80% I felt like basically nothing was happening and the main character was just self-destructing. I get that it's trying to make a statement about how women are allowed to behave in the public eye vs men, and fair enough, but her other books do that too and this one didn't have a good story to carry that message along.

zoemartinez's review

4.5

challenging emotional inspiring reflective

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

karmenm's review

5.0

emotional funny inspiring medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

moonlittee's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

nissas's review

3.75

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes