I took to walking on vacation and turned to audiobooks to pass the time. Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid was available immediately from the library, so I grabbed it. I am glad I listened to this as I think reading about all the tennis matches would have been boring. It was a good audiobook and accomplished my goal, but I didn’t love it. I have liked most books by Jenkins Reid about the same as this one and have given almost all of them four stars (and I have read most of her work). “Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. But by the time she retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Grand Slam titles. And if you ask Carrie, she is entitled to every one. She sacrificed nearly everything to become the best, with her father, Javier, as her coach. A former champion himself, Javier has trained her since the age of two. But six years after her retirement, Carrie finds herself sitting in the stands of the 1994 US Open, watching her record be taken from her by a brutal, stunning player named Nicki Chan. At thirty-seven years old, Carrie makes the monumental decision to come out of retirement and be coached by her father for one last year in an attempt to reclaim her record. Even if the sports media says that they never liked “the Battle-Axe” anyway. Even if her body doesn’t move as fast as it did. And even if it means swallowing her pride to train with a man she once almost opened her heart to: Bowe Huntley. Like her, he has something to prove before he gives up the game forever.” (Amazon)