Grace is on the US Women's National Team, and she is now injured. When peppy rookie Phoebe takes her spot, Grace refuses to become teammates with benefits. And Phoebe will not make a move on her idol…
I adored Mistakes Were Made last year, so I had to pounce on this one! It's a grumpy sunshine, rivals to lovers, sports, celebrity crush, sapphic steamy and witty romance. And listen, I do like me a good grumpy sunshine, but Grace was so grumpy it made her unlikeable, and Phoebe was so sunshine and all over the place it made her annoying. I also didn't like how rush and questionable the ending was and how much it came out of nowhere. It would've been nice for such a topic to be sprinkled into the story along the way. It still was a very cute and entertaining read, and Grace did have very good character development. And there was a final grand gesture even if there was no third act break up, which I of course loved. The audio book narration was amazing.
I received an advance review copy of this book for free and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

This was such a cute and heartwarming queer sports romcom! I loved the neurodivergent rep. included as well! Meryl Wilsner writes incredible steamy scenes and this book did not disappoint in that area!

This was a fun grumpy/sunshine, dual POV, Sapphic sports romance between the veteren and the rookie on a professional women's soccer team. Set in New Orleans, I really enjoyed all the stops around the city and getting immersed in the world of soccer (PSA there is a lot of technical soccer talk sprinkled throughout the book but I didn't mind it personally).

While this book had some good open door spice, I felt like the characters often chose to ignore important conversations by having sex instead. Also, on the one hand it's amazing that both the MCs seem to be neurodiverse. Phoebe is undiagnosed with ADHD and this doesn't come up until near the very end of the book and Grace is CLEARY autistic and this isn't specifically stated at all in the book, which really bothered me.

Otherwise, I liked the story and would recommend for fans of books like Everything for you by Chloe Liese or The long game by Elena Armas. Many thanks to NetGalley and SMPRomance for an early digital copy in exchange for my honest review! I also read this a second time on audio and enjoyed the narration by Dana Varden and Zim Avaltrades (two new to me voice actors).