I had a bizarre, unsatisfying, and never significantly restful weekend due to Colorado politics and post-exertional malaise. So, in between work, a brief run, an extended nap, a bunch of on-line Swedish dying cleansing, and mendacity on the sofa responding to limitless textual content messages, I learn Carrie Soto Is Again and The Massive Gamble (Kevin Kerney Novels Sequence Ebook 7). And after I say “learn”, think about me on the coach, with my Kindle in a single hand and my iPhone propped up on my leg so I might learn what got here in and reply when essential.
The Massive Gamble was good. I’m having fun with cruising via the Kevin Kerney novels after consuming the complete C.J. Field Joe Pickett sequence (all 25). However Carrie Soto Is Again was spectacular.
I used to be a severe tennis participant from age 10 to 14. Whereas soccer dominated Texas sports activities, properly, without end, tennis was up there within the mid Seventies alongside soccer (anybody keep in mind Kyle Rote Jr and the Dallas Tornados?) I finished taking part in tennis after I found computer systems and ladies (in that order) and began working as a substitute. For my thirtieth birthday, Amy took me to Bollettieri Tennis Academy (RIP Nick Bollettieri), which rekindled an off-the-cuff curiosity in tennis for me and a severe curiosity in tennis for Amy.
Right now, Amy is a tennis superfan. Our default TV channel is the Tennis Channel (activate the TV and it goes to the Tennis Channel). She at all times talks about Rafa and compares all the brand new up-and-comers to him.
Whereas I’m additionally a tennis fan, I’ve grown to get pleasure from watching the ladies’s video games greater than the boys’s. Coco Gauff is my present fave, however I nearly at all times root for the underdog. And whereas I hardly ever cheer for Sabalenka, she is a tremendous participant.
Carrie Sota was the most effective (fictional) feminine tennis participant within the Nineteen Eighties, profitable probably the most Grand Slams of any participant (20). She damage her knee in 1987 and retired in 1989. The e-book begins in 1994 with Carrie watching the brand new prime feminine tennis participant, Nicki Chan win the US Open and tie Carrie’s report.
In 1995, Carrie decides to come back out of retirement and compete in all of the majors. If you’re a tennis fan and this sounds acquainted, it’s a recurring theme in real-life tennis that hardly ever ends properly.
The drama is phenomenal, and the character growth of Carrie, Chan, Carrie’s father, her love curiosity, and some different minor characters is excellent. The story strikes rapidly, and the tennis match sections sustain the drama and tempo. Our protagonist has a number of moments of accelerating problem that aren’t histronic or laborious to consider, a lot of which cope with her altering actuality of life as she will get somewhat older.
Once I watched (after which learn) Daisy Jones & the Six a number of years in the past, I assumed Taylor Jenkins Reid was a gifted storyteller. I don’t know why it took me so lengthy to find and browse Carrie Soto Is Again, however The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Malibu Rising are actually on my Kindle.
