Carrie Soto Is Back - Taylor Jenkins Reid
I went into this book expecting very little. Mentally I'd associated Taylor Jenkins Reid with authors like Coleen Hoover - complete fluff that I would have no interest in. But I was on a beach, and needed a beach read, and I enjoy sports novels, so I decided to give this a go.
I'm very glad I did. This was much better than I could have expected it to be. It's definitely "fluffy", and it's very much a feel good story, but it's also very well written and incredibly moving. I really cared for the characters and wanted them all to succeed, and I felt like I could have spent a lot more time with them. Although sports stories tend towards the formulaic - which is a strength of the genre, in my opinion - this still managed to surprise me.
This may be my biggest shock of the year.