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Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

November 18, 2022 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

Carrie Soto retires from professional tennis at age 32 as the winningest player in the history of the Women’s Tour. However, five years later she watches in horror as her mark of 20 Grand Slams is tied by the younger star, Nicki Chan. Unwilling to let go of her most cherished accomplishment, Soto decides to come out of retirement alongside her father/coach Javier and take another crack at extending her record before Chan can surpass it. In Soto, Taylor Jenkins Reid has rendered an unusual […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Taylor Jenkins Reid

jeverett15's CBR14 Review No:50 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Taylor Jenkins Reid ·
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My first five-star TJR.

Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

November 3, 2022 by narfna 2 Comments

Thanks to NetGalley and Ballantine Books for the ARC. It has not affected the content of my review. Oh, hey, look at that. Five stars. I think no one is more surprised about that rating than me after slowly making my way through this over the past two and a half months (this was written in August). But really, I was only slow because I didn’t expect to get this ARC, so I was reading it in between other books when I had time. But […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: ARCs, Carrie Soto is back, historical fiction, sports, Taylor Jenkins Reid, tennis

narfna's CBR14 Review No:181 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ARCs, Carrie Soto is back, historical fiction, sports, Taylor Jenkins Reid, tennis ·
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another entry in the Reidverse that’s A+

Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

November 2, 2022 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

I think I’d had a string of so-so books and was very much waiting for this one to come out. If there’s one thing you can be certain of, it’s that Reid puts out solid books that you’ll enjoy—and true to form, that’s what she does here as well. A sidebar that it’s not only comic books that come with built in universes. There’s also a Reidverse! Carrie is the tennis star that had an affair with the husband of Nina Riva (of Malibu Rising). Carrie […]

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wicherwill's CBR14 Review No:126 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Taylor Jenkins Reid ·
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Reid continues to serve aces with a terrific sports drama set in the world of professional tennis.

Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

October 27, 2022 by TylerDFC Leave a Comment

With twenty Grand Slam and nine Wimbledon wins, Carrie Soto is the most successful and highest-paid female athlete of her time. When injuries made it impossible to continue at an elite level she retired from tennis in 1989. But when she watches Nicki Chan tie her record on the path to exceed it Carrie’s ego spurs her to mount a comeback at the age of 37 to the sport she dominated five years before. It is the return of the Battle Axe, the woman everyone […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Sports Tagged With: 2022 books, book review, Carrie Soto is back, Taylor Jenkins Reid, TylerDFC

TylerDFC's CBR14 Review No:29 · Genres: Fiction, Sports · Tags: 2022 books, book review, Carrie Soto is back, Taylor Jenkins Reid, TylerDFC ·
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The Best is Back

Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

October 1, 2022 by Jake 2 Comments

Read this as part of CBR14bingo: question. I wanted to know who Carrie Soto is and what she is coming back from. Later, I wanted another question answered… I was at a bookstore about a month ago when I heard two people gabbing about Taylor Jenkins Reid’s new book, Carrie Soto Is Back. One began with, “I just finished the book…” and instead of the platitudes I expected, she continued “and I hated it. The lead character was terrible there was nothing else to go on after […]

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Jake's CBR14 Review No:174 · Genres: Sports · Tags: Carrie Soto is back, cbr14bingo, historical fiction, question, sports, Taylor Jenkins Reid, tennis ·
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Carrie Soto is Back

Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

September 13, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is probably my favorite of the Taylor Jenkins Reid books so far. Carrie Soto appears early in Malibu Rising as the tennis star who crashes figuratively into one the character’s life. In this book she is the star and narrates almost the whole novel, minus the interpolation of media surrounding the tennis world from time to time. We begin with Carrie Soto, retired tennis star who holds the record the most Grand Slam titles, watching as her record is finally beaten by someone she never […]

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vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:528 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Taylor Jenkins Reid ·
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