Carrie Soto Is Back – Taylor Jenkins Reid

Six years after her retirement after a knee injury, Carrie Soto decides to return to tennis for one last go-around, planning to retain her record of twenty Grand Slam titles which is being threatened by a a younger player.  Reuniting with her former coach, her father, she sets out to regain her spot at the top of the tennis world but instead starts to figure out that there is more to life than rankings and being the best.  After suffering a personal loss, she comes to terms with where she is in life and, just maybe, finds a way to broaden her horizons.

Introduced in Malibu Rising, Carrie Soto is fleshed out into a full character here by Taylor Jenkins Reid.  I enjoyed this trek through the 90s, just as I have Jenkins Reid’s earlier works.  I’m looking forward to whatever comes next from her and the eventual adaptation of this book into a movie or series.