This book had so much promise...
This book has a really cute premise: a girl gets drafted for a professional women's soccer team where she gets to play with her childhood idol, and the two start to have feelings for each other. I really don't have much to say about this book. I want to give it props for being atmospheric and engaging, I was really envisioning the world and the story as I read. However: the characters were painted as two-dimensional pictures. They explained their whole backstory and personalities and opinions in the form of their internal monologues/narration. I would have loved to get to know the characters by just watching them interact and think and then deciding their personalities based on that. Similarly, their histories could have easily been woven into their budding relationship. It would have been real cute to have Phoebe gush about Teddy and his situation to Grace as part of them getting to know each other instead of just listening to Phoebe refer to Teddy in her own mind.
The romance was... fine. It was not swoon-worthy, but it also wasn't insta-love. I wish the characters had shown a little bit more chemistry or passion (outside of the extremely steamy scenes). I just don't know if I believed that they really liked each others' personalities, but that might be a problem branching off of the fact that I couldn't get a good feel of their personalities. Some aspects of the plot were a bit cliche (i.e. Phoebe being the one to out Grace about her injury, the entire subplot between Grace and Kelsey, etc.) but overall the plot was entertaining enough.
Final verdict: The book is engaging, but the characters lack satisfying development throughout the story.
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