Update: 5/4/19:You can find a really cute little epilogue scene here: https://www.marianazapata.com/kulti-o...... Thanks to Hulya for mentioning it in her review...just paying it forward for others to enjoy by doing the same.Review: Slooooooow Strong StarsSo not gonna lie, I went into this book completely blind. I didn't read any other reviews on this before starting (which is typical for me). Shit, I didn't even read the blurb (which is NOT typical for me). All I know is that I was "packing" my...

reread #573985 — still 5 stars ✩⋆reread #573986 { update } — nah i've been seeing too many people on tiktok slandering this mz book and my feelings are hurt. did we read the same book?? because the math ain't mathing.ok no. but this book ruined every other slowburn book for me tho. if a book doesn't have the whole strangers to enemies to rivals to acquaintances to hesitant friendship to full-on friendship to best friends to girl is oblivious that guy is in love with her but we readers know that

5+ German Chocolate Cake stars! “He was my coach. And I was his friend. Or something like that.” 
OMG THIS BOOK! Kulti is one of those books that has been sitting on my TBR soon pile for months and months. I never found the time to read it, then I saw it was on audio so I made the time. I’ve read 14 books so far this year and it is by far the BEST book I’ve read so far. My first 5+ star read of the year! Kulti is a soccer book, but it’s so much more than that! It’s fun, heartwarmi...

4 StarsBoy this was.... Long. Really, really looooong. And slooooooow. I'm not going to lie. I was struggling in the beginning until I reached the 30% mark and then finally, finally the story caught my interested. And I liked it. I liked it A LOT. Because, let me quote from the book: "What a fucking douche-bag!" He's perfect.It's amazing how realistically the author portrays the slow development of their love and relationship. It’s also amazing how she managed to use almost every possible elemen...

"Every single thing that has ever happened in my life has led me here, Sal. Destiny is a ladder, a series of steps that takes you where you're supposed to go. I am the man that I am, and I have done the things that I've done, to get me to you." The story is about twenty-seven-year-old Sal Casillas, who is a professional football (or soccer for some of you) player. Throughout her child and teenage years, she had a big crush on now retired German player - Reiner Kulti, he was the reaso

Re read November 2021

4.5 starsMARIANA ZAPATA..... QUEEN OF SLOW-BURNKulti has been on my TBR for a while now. Ever since reading The Wall of Winnipeg and Me I have been slowly but surely immersing myself in the world of Mariana Zapata. We get a sneak peek of Sal and Rey in The Wall of Winnipeg and Me and that made me save Kulti on my TBR.I fell in love with contemporary romance all over again with this book. Recently I've been in a fantasy/ NA streak so it was nice to read something that was at a bit of a slower pac...

Re-read again still absolutely love the shit out of this book and I still have a major girl crush going on ;) I can honestly say that this book has been the best I've read this year so far !! It was absolutely awesome. It's hard for me to explain why I loved it so much. Maybe it was the great writing style. It could also be, because of the amazing characters. I loved Sal and Kulti, but I also really Sal's father and her friends. The character build was really good.One of the other reasons I love...

I love slow burn novels. When a novel builds up to the eventual consummation, I feel it's so much sweeter. That's why I'm disappointed with how much I disliked this. While it picks up in the second half, it's hard to forget how the first half dragged and felt like a chore. In the end, the pay-off felt sub-par at best. I needed something a bit more spectacular after enduring pages of food names and "poop" (both of which would've been funny in moderation, but were killed with overuse), "the German...

3.5/5 ⭐Full review on my Blog: The Dacian She-Wolf 🐺I – an occasional die-hard football fan who just discovered her passion for a good romantic comedy – to sleep on this? Sis, not on my watch.About Zapata I’ve heard a couple of times and I was not convinced that I would ever pick up one of her books. But this one begged to differ. Because I picked it up and I actually enjoyed it. There is more of this book than its sports-related topic and the fact that it was supposed to be some romantic lit...

Check out more of my reviews at www.bookaddicthaven.comI've had this book sitting on my TBR for a long time. I had put off reading it for a few reasons, but the most notable reasons being that: 1) I am not a sports fan - at all- and I was worried I wouldn't enjoy it since this story was centered on two athletes; and 2) I was worried that I'd be disappointed after reading so many fantastic reviews for this book. Now that I've read it, I can say that neither of those concerns ended up coming to fr...

4.5 Stars ”He was my coach. And I was his friend. Or something like that.” Truth be told, I’m not a huge soccer fan but I played sports in my early years so reading about a professional female player is a total win for me. This sports theme book is centered around a full soccer season taking our heroine and her new coach through a slow building friendship to more. Sal, our heroine is a professional soccer player who finds out that her team’s new assistant coach will be none other than Reine

10+++++ STARS!!!!!I haven't read a book in awhile that has left me so affected, so happy, so...GAH! I LOVED IT, LOVED IT, LOVED IT. I'm feeling particularly confused right now because I want to say so much but I don't know how! So to save time and space, I'll point out what I loved, adored, gobbled up so much:1. SOCCER, SOCCER, SOCCER. Love that sport. The World Cup? It's a Holiday at my house where everything can wait until 'The Game' is over. Many books are soccer related, right? Sure, but not...

5 fucked-me-right-up stars“He was my coach. And I was his friend. Or something like that.”this book was fcking EVERYTHING to me. in typical zapata fashion, this was a sloooooow burn romance between professional soccer player Sal & her coach Reiner Kulti. Rey is a renowned soccer star & was someone that Sal looked up to long before he became her coach. and of course she's had a crush on him since she was a kid.thankfully Rey doesn't give a shit and does not return those warm feelings, at least in...

This book goes straight to the shelf with my favorite books because it combines three of the things that I value most in life: 1. FOOTBALL2. TRUE LOVE and3. FATE First of all, I love football. Or soccer, as it is called on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. I think that it is the bestest sport that has been created on the face of Earth.And you may think that I will tell you now a heartbreaking story about my childhood, how I used to go to the stadium and watch my favorite team kick ass ever...

BLOG 'This is what matters. You are my gift, my second chance, and I will cherish you and your dream. I will protect both of you'I’m now convinced that Mariana Zapata writes the best slow burn ever and the slowest slow burn but It’s so worth it at the end. I loved this book so much, I think this book took the same spot as wait for me this is how much I loved this book.I love Sal so much, she workes so hard to get to her position and she works other jobs too. She never depends on anyone and she’s...