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To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Are you only soccer or can you be both and if you're both why are you mad when someone talks to you about the former?

At every possible turn, the two of them use sex to distract each other for forming a deeper connection. Moving from Idaho to New Orleans will be a big change for Phoebe, but she knows she can make it work.Wilsner's writing immediately draws you in and makes you feel every single emotion the characters experience. Which is maybe harsh but like, I'm really struggling to find time to read and so when I finally did pick something up.

It's also a deeply lesbian book, with Phoebe being an out lesbian and Grace not quite out, not to the world, and I think it had some really lovely things to dive into with queer atheletes and what it means to be out and be representation vs protecting parts of yourself from the ever present public eye. These two very different women are on a collision course that will make both of their lives interesting and a lot more enjoyable. Both of those statements remain true after reading this book: I still don’t like soccer, but I sure do love when the women playing it fall in love!The story follows Pheobe, a rookie to the New Orleans Krewe, and Grace, the captain and star veteran of the soccer team.

The conversation around ADHD happened a lot later than I expected—because like Grace, I definitely thought Phoebe was already diagnosed—but I really liked it and how the conversation helped their relationship grow as well. I don’t understand the rules of soccer and I quite literally know even less about it, so parts of the book were hard to follow. I liked the commentary that was included about how women’s sports don’t always pay their professional athletes enough.Even knowing that they play the same position and Phoebe could replace Grace, that's never an actual serious contender of a situation for it to qualify as a rival situation. ive seen others say that grace eventually tries to diagnose phoebe herself at some point and that is just not it. I had a similar issue with Cassie in “Mistakes Were Made” in that the character just annoyed me in the beginning. Some of Meryl's favorite things include: all four seasons, button down shirts, the way giraffes run, and their wife. It's handled really well - and this is what I was like figuring out my own autism, it was spot on to me.

She develops a crush on the Captain of the team, Grace Henderson, and the two start a relationship as they manage life, career and outside pressures. Phoebe is the newbie on the national team and a professional team and has idolized (and had a crush on) Grace for years. Even after they start their friends-with-benefits relationship, they both just really like one another and wish for more (if only they would’ve actually talked sooner. Both did a great job portraying a twenty-something female with changing emotions and career concerns.Grace’s potential autism diagnosis also wasn’t really discussed, besides a throwaway comment about learning more about it later (which we never witnessed). She respects her skills and even though she wishes she would be on time and that she would shut up every once in awhile, there's no active dislike. I did like this book, especially that it has a lot of intimacy scenes, but for me it was definitely lacking emotion. Out of nowhere bitching people out for not telling her that they might be eating out and how "some people have to budget" like. It's all she is, all she knows, because of how early she started playing, and how that makes her feel aged (which I'll get to in a second.