Football or Soccer is a particular favourite of mine but it’s usually quite difficult to find a decently written romance with this sport as many either go into way to much detail without real reason and others don’t mention it enough like they are interested in the main character being sporty but don’t enjoy writing about the sport itself. As someone who doesn’t really play sports, I oddly enjoy reading about them in books. This book was at the very top of her list and I was intrigued by her full length review. I heard about this book after looking at Bookloversforlife‘s favourite books of 2015 – which I’m currently working my way through because every book seems to be a winner. Or the murderous urges he brought out in her. Nothing could have prepared her for the man she got to know. So she isn’t prepared for this version of Reiner Kulti who shows up to her team’s season: a quiet, reclusive, shadow of the explosive, passionate man he’d once been. Sal had long ago gotten over the worst non-break-up in the history of imaginary relationships with a man that hadn’t known she’d existed.

It didn’t take a week for twenty-seven-year-old Sal Casillas to wonder what she’d seen in the international soccer icon-why she’d ever had his posters on her wall, or ever envisioned marrying him and having super-playing soccer babies.

When the man you worshipped as a kid becomes your coach, it’s supposed to be the greatest thing in the world. “Trust me, I’ve wanted to punch you in the face a time or five.”

Kulti book review