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Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
4.5
adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

OK so Carrie won me over after a very rocky start and in the interconnected universe of the Taylor Jenkins Reid historical fiction novels I think she's ranked two (which the Carrie we see for 3/4 of the book wouldn't be happy with!)

It took me a while to warm up to her, especially knowing her as the affair partner from Malibu Rising but the character work done by TJR is fantastic, probably the best of the 4 books and little by little you become really invested in seeing Carrie succeed - in whatever way that means to her.

Another success from TJR even if it makes me feel old to categorise this as HF when it's set in the 90s!