I’d gotten over my crush-slash-infatuation when I was seventeen, when I finally accepted the fact that I didn’t have a single shot of ever playing against him-obviously-and… there was no chance in hell that he’d ever be interested in me, the Argentinian-Mexican-American tomboy thirteen years younger than him. Kulti will always remain in her heart… even if he doesn’t know she exists. The famous German soccer player, also known as ‘The King’, has been a huge part of Sal’s life – he’s the reason she went on to be the best soccer player she could be. Sal Casillas has been a fan of – and in love with – Reiner Kulti since she saw him on television for the first time when she was seven years old. This book is meaningful, sweet, heartfelt, and so freaking GOOD. The slow pace is the PERFECT pace for Sal and Kulti, and I promise, the wait is so worth it. Yes, the romance is slow, so don’t expect any steamy scenes too quickly, but I wouldn’t change a thing about it. None of the story felt unnecessary, and every single scene only endeared the characters more to my heart. It’s a long book – but I literally loved every page of it. It’s got characters you can’t help but love. It’s a sports romance with a soccer-playing heroine and a retired international soccer icon, now her coach. Kulti has got a bit of everything – enemies to friends, friends to lovers, a slow burn romance, a little forbidden romance.

I’m OBSESSED with this book – Sal and Kulti have taken a hold of my heart and I never want them to let go. If you haven’t read Kulti yet, READ IT NOW. I seriously have hearts in my eyes right now, that’s how much I loved these characters and the story. Sal is the kind of heroine I adore – hilarious, sassy, down-to-earth, relatable… And Kulti is the most lovable jackass there is.

put this book down – the pages just zipped by for me. I finished this huge book in a day, even though it didn’t feel like a long book AT ALL. KULTI!!!! It was utter perfection – I loved the romance, the characters, freaking soccer, everything. This was going to be the longest season of her life. “Sal, please don’t make me visit you in jail. Or the murderous urges he brought out in her. Nothing could have prepared her for the man she got to know. So she isn’t prepared for this version of Reiner Kulti who shows up to her team’s season: a quiet, reclusive, shadow of the explosive, passionate man he’d once been. Sal had long ago gotten over the worst non-break-up in the history of imaginary relationships with a man that hadn’t known she’d existed.

It didn’t take a week for twenty-seven-year-old Sal Casillas to wonder what she’d seen in the international soccer icon-why she’d ever had his posters on her wall, or ever envisioned marrying him and having super-playing soccer babies. When the man you worshipped as a kid becomes your coach, it’s supposed to be the greatest thing in the world. “Trust me, I’ve wanted to punch you in the face a time or five.”

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