I love Taylor Jenkins Reid so much! All of her books have been so fantastic. I think I’ve read most of them at this point. I went into this one completely blind because I honestly don’t even care. I see a new book by her and I know that I want to read it.

This one was cool because I happened to read this during the Western & Southern Open going on five minutes from me! We love going to the tennis matches but haven’t gone in a while since our kiddo is too young. Anyways, this one is completely wrapped around tennis. If you are not a fan of tennis or sports, it might be something that you don’t enjoy about this one. It’s okay but even though this is a huge influence it is not what this story is about.

This story is about the love between a father and a daughter. There are also a few other things thrown into the mix. Carrie is a tough cookie and has one goal in life- to be the BEST of all time, in tennis. Her dad, Javier, is the one who guided and coached her for most of her life. She has one goal focus and didn’t care about anything else. She was amazing and was not shy about letting you know it. She is known to be ruthless! She’s retired and then comes a moment she didn’t think would happen. A younger tennis player is about to smash her record and she can’t have that. She decides to jump back into tennis with her father by her side.

I loved that Taylor takes us back in time to get the full story. We get to see how Carrie became who she is today. There are many things that she sacrificed or went without to be the best. The cost might have been too high. The later part of the book was just beautiful. I was so engrossed and the relationship between Carrie and her father was so beautiful. Sometimes we get so focused that we don’t realize there are many other things in this life.

I love that a lot of Taylor’s books have some sort of connection. In this one, she even references Daisy Jones and the Six! As a fan, it was pretty cool. I only had one big issue with this book and it was the Spanish. Granted, I had a heads up going in but it was a bit rough. I speak Spanish and I know that we all have our slang and dialect for different areas. I was very surprised to see that there were no translations and figured they would be the most basic and easier phrases. I had to stop myself and look up some things and I know/understand the language. I feel like many will just skim past these moments and some of them are important!

Overall, I really enjoyed this one. You do not have to love/like or even know about tennis to enjoy this story. It was such a quick read because I was sucked in from the start. The relationships are so well done and the emotion was running high. I highly recommend this one!

Many thanks to Ballantine Books and Netgalley for an e-arc to review.