Kulti

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What unexpectedly follows is an unlikely friendship between coach and player, an ever-growing bond between two people whose shared love for the game and unyielding determination to be the best they can be bring them closer each day, but even with so much in common, they are constantly reminded of all the differences between them, not the least of them being the thirteen-year gap between their ages. I had a man I respected that respected me, and he didn’t care if the world knew we meant something to each other. Our friendship hadn’t been given to either one of us, we had worked at it. kulti’s love confessions to sal fr had me screaming into my pillow, i was losing my mind!! i want this man for myself. There is more of this book than its sports-related topic and the fact that it was supposed to be some romantic little story happening there. There are some issues exposed that some might not know of or care about. But on some level, I do. Narrator Callie Dalton did a fine job on this very long story except that I didn’t really hear much of a German accent when Kulti spoke. It was subtle, but I didn't mind.

I think Zapata is a huge lover of reindeer. I remember reading somewhere that reindeer's eye color changes from a golden hue to a deep blue as summer changes to winter, helping them to adapt to different light levels. Zapata similarly mentions Kulti's eyes. She gives it different Colors like hazel brown, green, and amber. I am a person who gives a lot of importance to continuity and consistency in literary creations. The author should have been a little more careful in this aspect. This was why I gave it a 1. Before this, I was around a 2 because, while I didn't think it was great, I didn't feel it was super awful, either. BUT, then Zapata was pushing this true love/destiny BS at the end, and then combined with the age difference and how he still kept her letters, it was just too creepy for me. Oh, and it didn't make sense. i seriously needed kulti’s pov every time he was jealous bc he was losing his mind!! especially when sal hugged his friend before him and he got so mf grumpy afterwards!! petty kulti gets activated when kulti is jealous, therefore, jealous kulti is the best kulti and no one tell me otherwise.Here’s what I saw happening: independent, driven, socially intelligent Sal basically hands over agency over her life and poor, wonderfully taciturn and complex Kulti, a 40-year old adult, starts to act like a jealous adolescent. And they live happily ever after. And there’s an epilogue tagged on about her career. For the first time ever, my eyes twitched at the recurrent use of the same words to name a character. Someone save me from The German. Like please. This is getting old. Kulti jest ostatnią książką Pani Zapaty, której jeszcze nie czytałam, a w zasadzie była pierwszą, która została wydana na naszym polskim rynku wydawniczym. Także musiałam ją w końcu nadrobić :D Mariana Zapata tells us the story of Reiner Kulti and Sal Casillas in this novel. Sal is a 27-year-old soccer player who gets her childhood icon, Kulti as her coach one day. She had some fangirl moments initially. She starts to dislike him after she understands more about his character. Later they will become good friends. Will their friendship turn into a romantic relationship? What will happen to Sal's career? Is Kulti an arrogant person as he appears to be? Zapata will give you answers to these questions through this book This is a tough book because it’s a fairly slow moving story and much of it is focused on the heroine’s struggle with her current position in life, but there is a romance in it and the ending of the story is very romantic.

To say that this book was a slow-burn is putting it mildly. This story seemed to go on forever. I enjoyed it immensely, but I did think that it could have been trimmed down a little. re)reading MZ books is always a double-edged sword, it makes you feel good because of the slowburn and the anticipation of when the MCs are finally gonna get together but when you're done reading, it just leaves you feeling cold and empty with a staring into the abyss type of feeling. it's kinda horrible not gonna lie. but basically, i just need more of kulti and sal content please 🥺👉👈 I wouldn't say I liked some of the remarks by the author against Germans in this book (even if her intention was to create humor and sarcasm from most of those remarks). Hitler and Germany indeed did one of the most terrible acts that humankind has seen during the Second World War. But that doesn't give the author the license to generalize it on all current Germans and treat them like they are all bad in a condescending manner. I have a few German friends who are the best human beings I have seen in my life.Sure, there were certain aspects that bothered me a bit, one of them being that it took me too much to actually get into the storyline and another being the fact that sometimes everything happening felt a tiny bit too surreal. was this book perfect?? absolutely not. but it was perfect to me and thats all that matters. im gonna forgive its flaws i love her enough for it i don’t wanna hear any slander.

it's not like this is the best slow burn, enemies to friends to best friends to lovers i've ever read.No, Sal, you can't "[miss] the glance he took at [your] mouth. [Miss] the way he fisted his hand as he pried it off [your] shoulder". Because Hello, first POV narrative. You don't get to choose when you are omniscient. On the other hand, although I was thirsty to watch my favorite team or the national team doing great in Europe, I had one disappointment after the other. Obviously Greece could not play good football internationally. I should have loved basketball more… Oh, well… I loved Sal. Her determination and focus was easy to believe and the highs and lows of dealing with her young girl crush as a coach, on a daily basis, were interesting. Sal just wants to play soccer and when Kulti joins as an assistant coach, she must learn to treat him as normal, not as her first love and the man she was going to marry (in her head...she was very little). She also has to get past the fact that Kulti broke her brother’s leg years ago when they were playing soccer on opposing teams. Poor Sal has a lot to deal with. She is almost tongue tied and the only way she can stop herself from being a blathering fool is to remind herself over and over again that Kulti poos and wees. The first half of the story had poo mentioned quite a bit.

Devouring Ted Lasso episodes reminded me of my love for soccer and I decided to reread this book for feeling so much better on my weekend! main character was a lil weird at times and the amount of times she said “the German” was too much like damn girl just say his name😭 besides that and the pooping mentions, I didn’t have any problems with her. Even if I wished she beat some people up bc I would have fought every person on there🙄🙄 the patient she has- wow. OMG AND WHEN SHE THOUGHT UEFA Euro 2004. Greece is the European Champion against all odds. Thank you, thank you, thank you Otto Rehhagel. Otto was the best coach my national team ever had.

This is a 16 hour Audible book. For me, that’s a huge investment of my time on one story. So I was looking forward to a sweeping romance and a passion that could not be denied. That's not what I got. I was surprised at first when many hours of listening passed (4-5 hours) and there was no hint of any of this. The main characters interacted for about 30 seconds at this stage. I persevered however, because I read (not listened to) a wonderful slow burn novel by Zapata called ‘Dear Aaron’ and I loved that one. So I know this writer can do romance. I hoped a good romance would build up here too but sadly, I didn't experience it.