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A review by ellaellaellaetc
Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner
2.25
ugh. december was the month of reading romance books that I so desperately wanted to enjoy but was not able to. instead of writing my own description of what this book is about, I am just going to quote the a goodreads review from user jessica j "Imagine if Ted Lasso was about American lesbians instead of (predominantly) straight British men. Now imagine that Ted was a rookie player instead of the coach, and that he and Roy Kent banged it out." actually perfectly describes this book except it wasn't nearly as funny as the show.
unfortunately this was just not what I wanted :// my main complaint is that this just felt underedited, so many little errors and weird pacing issues. one that particularly stand out is a scene where the main character puts her phone on do not disturb and then literally the next page is "she is woken up by the buzzing of a text message" bruh. this is so stupid.
another issue is that it didn't really take advantage of its setting. this is about two girlies playing professional soccer in the us in the year of the fifa women's cup and I thought that it would span across the whole season and include the cup, but no. it's literally just all about preseason training and then like the first 5 games of the season and doesn't even include the fifa world cup unless you invlude the team us training camps???? huh???? what is even the point of writing a sports romance. like you lose any tension you get from the sport and just lost so much interest cause I LOVE the sports aspect of sports romance. especially cause these two are on the same team and the dynamic is one of them has been playing professional soccer since she was a teenage and the other one played for her college team and is now the rookie on the team playing her first season. how are you gonna have that dynamic and then not show it on the pitch??? I'm upset. anyway. 2.25 stars
p.s. not related to my the actual reading of the book but I got a free drink bottle and had it in my bag when I was reading it and it leaked all over the book😭😭😭 fuck aascf!!! bruh actually devastating had to pay the library $23 and it was so embarrassing
unfortunately this was just not what I wanted :// my main complaint is that this just felt underedited, so many little errors and weird pacing issues. one that particularly stand out is a scene where the main character puts her phone on do not disturb and then literally the next page is "she is woken up by the buzzing of a text message" bruh. this is so stupid.
another issue is that it didn't really take advantage of its setting. this is about two girlies playing professional soccer in the us in the year of the fifa women's cup and I thought that it would span across the whole season and include the cup, but no. it's literally just all about preseason training and then like the first 5 games of the season and doesn't even include the fifa world cup unless you invlude the team us training camps???? huh???? what is even the point of writing a sports romance. like you lose any tension you get from the sport and just lost so much interest cause I LOVE the sports aspect of sports romance. especially cause these two are on the same team and the dynamic is one of them has been playing professional soccer since she was a teenage and the other one played for her college team and is now the rookie on the team playing her first season. how are you gonna have that dynamic and then not show it on the pitch??? I'm upset. anyway. 2.25 stars
p.s. not related to my the actual reading of the book but I got a free drink bottle and had it in my bag when I was reading it and it leaked all over the book😭😭😭 fuck aascf!!! bruh actually devastating had to pay the library $23 and it was so embarrassing