The Favorites
By Lynne Fargo
★★★★★★★★☆☆ 8/10
336 pages
What’s it about?
Katarina Shaw and Heath Rocha are small-town kids from Illinois with dreams of making it big in the ice-dancing world. But their path is anything but smooth. Ten years after their retirement, an unauthorized documentary airs, uncovering the "real story".
What did it make me think about?
The world of ice skating is not what it seems....
Should I read it?
So this goes in that category of propulsively readable mass-market fiction. Other than being a little long in the middle- this book flies by. I did not know it was possible to have so many twists and turns in one book. As with all twisty suspense-thrillers, you need to put all sensibility aside. This would be a great pick if you are in a reading rut. It would get you turning the pages again, and getting a glimpse into the ice-dancing world was the best part of the book.
A passage I marked
"Figure skating is a strange sport, because it depends so much on image and narrative. You have to kill it on the ice, but you also have to look the part and have a compelling story."
