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A review by deena_
Kulti by Mariana Zapata
5.0
Did I give it a single thought before rating it 5 stars? Out of the question. I knew I found my new favorite not long after I picked this up. I loved every second there was to it. This book completely blew me off my seat while I let all that slow-burn torture me to death. I loved Sal's family so much that I often found myself caring more about their appearance than her relationship dynamics with Kulti. The way this book stayed true to portraying the sports aspect of it as well as the romance is highly remarkable. I won't call myself a soccer fan, but I loved it all the same.
Determined professional soccer player Sal Casillas finds out that the retired soccer star Reiner Kulti, the man she had a huge crush on and thrived to be his equal as a kid, is going to be the assistant coach of her team. She had her fair share of Kulti obsession days growing up, when she had his posters all over her room and dreamed of having amazing soccer playing babies with him. All it took was a huge incident between her brother Eric and Kulti on the field during a game for her to throw her feelings for him out the window. Years later, when the green eyed, brown haired German bastard was in front of her in all his 6-foot-2 attractiveness, it should have been a childhood dream come true, but only it wasn't. He turned out to be the most arrogant, insufferable human being who's down to make her life a living hell. She despised his guts more than ever, not as if he felt anything different about her. It didn't help that even after all those years, her longtime feelings for him threatened to betray her every time he was near. She thought of ways that would keep her from killing 'The King of Soccer' aka her new coach in cold blood, no matter how much he got on her nerves and risk getting kicked out of the team.
Determined professional soccer player Sal Casillas finds out that the retired soccer star Reiner Kulti, the man she had a huge crush on and thrived to be his equal as a kid, is going to be the assistant coach of her team. She had her fair share of Kulti obsession days growing up, when she had his posters all over her room and dreamed of having amazing soccer playing babies with him. All it took was a huge incident between her brother Eric and Kulti on the field during a game for her to throw her feelings for him out the window. Years later, when the green eyed, brown haired German bastard was in front of her in all his 6-foot-2 attractiveness, it should have been a childhood dream come true, but only it wasn't. He turned out to be the most arrogant, insufferable human being who's down to make her life a living hell. She despised his guts more than ever, not as if he felt anything different about her. It didn't help that even after all those years, her longtime feelings for him threatened to betray her every time he was near. She thought of ways that would keep her from killing 'The King of Soccer' aka her new coach in cold blood, no matter how much he got on her nerves and risk getting kicked out of the team.