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

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

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

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.