![]() ![]() That, and the fact that it's a pretty quick and painless read, actually left me feeling less bored than I sort of expected to. Charlie is a fairly believable character, even if some of the things that happen to her are less so, and she does have some development. ![]() Well, okay, there actually is still something left. ![]() And while some of the main character's experiences - fancy makeovers! sleeping with a movie star! being invited onto a luxury yacht! - are surely fun wish-fulfillment fantasies for a lot of people, they're really not mine.And when you take away all of that stuff. But the truth is, I am profoundly, deeply indifferent to tennis, and I neither understand nor particularly appreciate the obsessively competitive mindset of the professional athlete. I knew that going in, and I decided to read it anyway, for reasons that made some sort of sense at the time. Meanwhile, Charlie wonders whether her casual secret affair with a hot male tennis player is ever going anywhere or not.Confession time: I am so not the reader for this book. He's accomplished and in demand, but he's also nasty, abrasive, and pushy, and he quickly decides that what her game needs is less niceness and more warrior spirit, and that what her career needs is a fiercer and fancier new image. ![]() Professional tennis player Charlotte "Charlie" Silver decides it's time for a change after she suffers an injury on the court, and hires a new coach. ![]()
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