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A review by tirwinreads17
Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
5.0
A story about love, loss, female empowerment, redemption, and of course…. tennis!!
Carrie Soto was groomed from a young child by her tennis enthusiast father/coach to be unapologetically the roughest and most disciplined female tennis player, with the hopes that one day she would be THE best. After winning the most Slam titles and claiming her spot as the most decorated tennis player, male or female, in the world, ever, she retires. Fast forward approximately six years when her world record is smashed by a younger British player, Nicki Chan, and Carrie is in the audience to witness it. At that exact moment, Carrie decides to re-enter the now changed world of women’s tennis with her biggest fan by her side, her dad, but she is much older and changed. Will she still be able to live up to her legacy or should she have stayed retired in legendary status?
I want to preface this review by saying that I have NOT read either Daisy Jones nor Malibu Rising YET. They are on my very long, very intimidating TBR list. I understand from the book community that there is a bit of crossover easter eggs in this one related to TJR’s other bestsellers, but I will have to file those away for later when I do get around to them. There was a lot of talk initially about Carrie Soto being a sequel, but I am here to say that you DO NOT need to read those in order to read and understand this novel, which is entirely standalone.
I truly enjoyed this book and I cannot express how grateful I am to Random House, Taylor, and NetGalley for the early opportunity to read this gem. I have never in my life played or had the inclination to play tennis before reading this novel, and now not only do I have the random urge to play tennis, but to also be a fearless female warrior and dominate the heck out of it! I did not believe I required any independent knowledge of tennis to read this or that anything was confusing to me because I didn’t, in fact, I actually learned so much.
I really enjoyed how the novel was broken down by years and by major tennis events. I also enjoyed the sports casting transcripts and editorials that were sprinkled throughout. My ONLY criticism of this title would be the Spanish. Not the fact that there was Spanish, but that it did not translate it for readers who do not speak the language. It wasn’t simple, well known phrases either, so I was stuck either spending time Google entire dialogues or guessing but not really knowing what was said, which subtracted from the story.
I will scream this book’s praises from the highest rooftops and can’t wait for the world to meet Carrie on August 30th!!
Carrie Soto was groomed from a young child by her tennis enthusiast father/coach to be unapologetically the roughest and most disciplined female tennis player, with the hopes that one day she would be THE best. After winning the most Slam titles and claiming her spot as the most decorated tennis player, male or female, in the world, ever, she retires. Fast forward approximately six years when her world record is smashed by a younger British player, Nicki Chan, and Carrie is in the audience to witness it. At that exact moment, Carrie decides to re-enter the now changed world of women’s tennis with her biggest fan by her side, her dad, but she is much older and changed. Will she still be able to live up to her legacy or should she have stayed retired in legendary status?
I want to preface this review by saying that I have NOT read either Daisy Jones nor Malibu Rising YET. They are on my very long, very intimidating TBR list. I understand from the book community that there is a bit of crossover easter eggs in this one related to TJR’s other bestsellers, but I will have to file those away for later when I do get around to them. There was a lot of talk initially about Carrie Soto being a sequel, but I am here to say that you DO NOT need to read those in order to read and understand this novel, which is entirely standalone.
I truly enjoyed this book and I cannot express how grateful I am to Random House, Taylor, and NetGalley for the early opportunity to read this gem. I have never in my life played or had the inclination to play tennis before reading this novel, and now not only do I have the random urge to play tennis, but to also be a fearless female warrior and dominate the heck out of it! I did not believe I required any independent knowledge of tennis to read this or that anything was confusing to me because I didn’t, in fact, I actually learned so much.
I really enjoyed how the novel was broken down by years and by major tennis events. I also enjoyed the sports casting transcripts and editorials that were sprinkled throughout. My ONLY criticism of this title would be the Spanish. Not the fact that there was Spanish, but that it did not translate it for readers who do not speak the language. It wasn’t simple, well known phrases either, so I was stuck either spending time Google entire dialogues or guessing but not really knowing what was said, which subtracted from the story.
I will scream this book’s praises from the highest rooftops and can’t wait for the world to meet Carrie on August 30th!!