One of my most anticipated book of the year was Carrie Soto is Back and oh boy did it deliver!

I couldn’t have expected anything else from TJR. It was my third book from the author and it is safe to say that she is now in my auto-buy authors' club ☺️

Coming to the story, it is about many things- love, grief, sportsmanship, determination and the will, but at the core, it is about the tennis and father-daughter relationship! And ah, Javier is one of the best father figures I have come across in fiction. What a splendid character!

And so is Carrie Soto! Much like Evelyn Hugo, Carrie Soto is a star too! More fierce, more stubborn, but nonetheless you can’t stop falling for her by the time you finish the last page!

Carrie and Javier’s relationship is bounded by their fierce love for tennis. Javier is Carrie’s coach too for most of her career. They make quite a pair- father and daughter, coach and player.

And oh, the tennis details throughout the book! Just splendid.

TJR can take a most basic story and can turn it into a splendid tale through her magic words. I am not a tennis follower, well I am not exactly a sports person. But the way TJR's words made me believe that I was seeing those tennis matches live was just commendable!

That sitting at the end of the seat excitement, pumping of blood in your ears, the sound of your heartbeat— reading about every match Carrie played was just like that visual imagery, that level of excitement. Trust me, the stakes were kept real, there were ups and down, so the whole experience of visualising the games felt like some live-action movie!

One word for this book? STUNNER!

Read it for TJR, read it for the love of Tennis, read it for a beautiful father-daughter relationship, for the unexpected love story, and read it to simply have a wonderful time