Author: Kate Christie
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Established Couple, Second Chance, Sports
Series: Girls of Summer #3
Pages: 290
Published: January 23rd, 2018
Format: ebook (libby)
Started: 07-24-2024
Finished: 07-30-2024
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synopsis
Training Ground, book one of the Girls of Summer series, introduced Emma Blakeley and Jamie Maxwell, two young athletes with seemingly bright soccer futures. In book two, Game Time, those futures caught up to them—and brought them back together. Now, in Outside the Lines, Jamie and Emma are forced to come to terms with their relationship as each dedicates herself to a lifelong dream: making the 2015 World Cup roster for the US Women’s National Team, the top-ranked squad in the world.
Back in the US for the first time in several years, Jamie has decided to focus on figuring things out with Emma and trying to stay healthy for her new NWSL club team, the Portland Thorns. Emma, meanwhile, a Seattle Reign mainstay, is trying to navigate conflicting commitments, both personally and professionally. But finding balance while living apart and playing for club and country presents challenges that neither woman anticipated.
Join Jamie and Emma for the latest installment in the ongoing story of their lives, loves, and would-be world championships in Outside the Lines, book three of the bestselling Girls of Summer series.
rant
- a good book and somewhat soccer forward
- I didn’t read the first two book fully for tw reasons ‐ just skimmed them ‐ I aslo wanted to avoid the major miscommunication trope that happens in those books
- The writing style was ok but the author would go off on tangents about certain things that I didn’t care about (like star wars) so I was a bit bored at points
- Didn’t go super into detail describing the games and plays which I liked
- Both Jamie and Emma were likeable and realistic characters ‐ they had their weird quirks that could be cringey but for the most part they were very cute / sweet
- Just enough tension w/ the will they wont they make the team drama + all the tension w/ the coaches and federation
- The super happy optimistc ending has me scared that shit will go down in the next book
- Would read again if I wanted to read something about soccer
noted & quoted
- the new years scene
- Emma and Jamie babysiting
- their first night alone together
- their European vacation
- getting a new coach that loves Jaime
