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Taylor Jenkins Reid: Carrie Soto Is Back (Hardcover, Ballantine Books) 4 stars

In this powerful novel about the cost of greatness, a legendary athlete attempts a comeback …

Review of 'Carrie Soto Is Back' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Stopped by the library and happened to catch this new release as it was first being shelved. I've enjoyed other books by TJR, so I scooped it up – and was not disappointed. At first I worried that I'd get bored by an entire book that basically talks tennis in point-by-point detail, but she did a good enough job developing the characters that I got into it. For her other fans: this book was more "Daisy Jones" and less "Malibu," which was a big plus in my book. (I hadn't realized that TJR wrote this, Daisy, Malibu and Evelyn Hugo all as part of one world... while they aren't a series, there ARE overlapping characters and references across all four books, which I found fun. Fun enough, in fact, that after finishing this book, I went and found this article summarizing those connections: www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2022/08/taylor-jenkins-reid-universe-carrie-soto-malibu-rising.