Cleat Cute

Listen. I'm an ideal reader for this book. You can catch me with my partner at a NWSL game on a regular basis. But there's a shockingly low amount of soccer actually in this book (the author clearly knows the league and is a real fan but I missed soccer!) and I felt like the relationship felt a bit shallow and somewhat immature. The end of the book feels so rushed compared to the beginning. Neither of the main characters feel fully fleshed out, and the villain feels flat, too. It's still heartwarming as a whole to see the representation of a community I care about/feel apart of, but I was let down a good bit by it. Maybe I just had unfair expectations. It is a fun read though.