Cleat Cute

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Phoebe also just lets grace think that the trainer noticed her injury instead of telling her that she was the one who let it slip. There were also some discussions, particularly with Grace, who was grappling with a hip flexor injury, about where she wanted to go with her career. Honestly, the reason why this book doesn’t quite get five stars from me was because of all the soccer stuff.

Phoebe is everything Grace isn’t—a gregarious jokester who plays with a joy that Grace lost somewhere along the way. it's possible meryl wilsner and i have very different taste in women, and very different lines when it comes to cockiness/confidence/teasing characters, and that's fine!

Phoebe Matthews has always admired Grace’s skill and was star struck to be training alongside her idol. Phoebe Matthews is too focused on her first season as a professional soccer player to think about seducing her long-time idol. By the end though, the characters had won me over and I was fully behind their new-found open communication and expression of tenderness. I love that she addressed that some people struggle to reach orgasm because they get stuck in their brains and that sex doesn't have to be about orgasms, it can just be about intimacy and pleasure. While this book may not be for me, I definitely see the potential and think Cleat Cute would work very well for someone who likes third person and internal monologue.

but i absolutely found phoebe to be one of the most annoying characters around and she drove me up THE WALL. There are people that are in the training camp that are not in New Orleans and then there are people that are in the Nationals that are not in either and then some are in all of them and without a freaking flow chart of which teammate belongs to which team and where each team is located I was lost. I’m more interested in both of these things than soccer, so I would’ve liked the story to develop them deeper. Almost immediately the story goes to Phoebe’s first national team camp so there are a bunch of new people there. They start out in a training camp and then then they're in New Orleans and then they're starting for one team but then there's so many discussions of playing world cup or nationals or whatever and as someone who is not a sportsball person, I was so confused the entire time because there's no underlying explanation of the fact that these are different teams.

But Meryl Wilsner writing a sports romance is enough for me to put aside my reservations and pick up the book.

The spicy parts were spicy but there was a lot of character development between them and a lot of cluelessness (is that a word? This book is definitely spicy, which I always love, but I wanted so much more from them as the story went along. Which, hey, fine, character-driven stuff with minor background noise is good but man when it feels like it's dragging, and there's nothing to distract you, and you're getting hit with sex scenes and monologues left and right, featuring not just one but two characters you can't really stand, ontop of stupid misunderstandings which cross the line into miscommunications, well. Phoebe is everything Grace isn't - a gregarious jokester who plays with a joy that Grace has lost somewhere along the way.I had a similar issue with Cassie in “Mistakes Were Made” in that the character just annoyed me in the beginning. I liked the commentary that was included about how women’s sports don’t always pay their professional athletes enough. Phoebe and Grace both present as neurodivergent, but when the topics are talked about, Phoebe reacts with anger and a seemingly internalized stigma against neurodivergence/ADHD.

She is also starting to get a little tired of all of the uproar, and when not playing prefers to spend her time on the front porch of her house, alone, except for her cat. Now imagine that Ted was a rookie player instead of the coach, and that he and Roy Kent banged it out.When Phoebe asks Grace to show her around the city, the two forge a friendship that quickly evolves into more as they get to know each other.