“Carrie Soto is Back” is another hit book by Taylor Jenkins Reid, the New York Best Selling Author most well-known for her hit books such as: “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” and “Daisy Jones and the Six.” 

“Carrie Soto is Back” follows Carrie Soto, the most famous women’s tennis player of the 1980s while she comes out of retirement to protect her record-placing title ten years later.

What makes this book different from other sport-centered stories is that it follows many different themes besides perseverance that the sports genre lays out for you. “Carrie Soto is Back” includes grief, ageism, sexism, racism and balancing your morals and values.

I enjoyed this book because I love Reid’s writing style. Throughout most of her books she jumps through different time periods. This story takes place during the mid and late 1900s, and she includes different perspectives through interview-style excerpts within her stories and an unexpected ending. The combination of these three things makes her books a lot more engaging to read and her books never feel like work for me. 

I have yet to read a book by Reid that I dislike. All of her books hit all of the categories I look for in a book: a topic that’s going to make me think a little bit and maybe change me for the better, a great ending that makes the reading feel worth it, and it doesn’t feel like work to read because reading should be fun!

Make sure to get through the end of this book, the middle drags on a bit but the ending and closure are so worth it.