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A review by meaghanslibrary
The Favorites by Layne Fargo

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

The audiobook is so good. It’s very interactive. I was so pleasantly surprised with how good this book was. I had heard great things about it from other people on YouTube, but the plot didn’t really intrigue me because people had said it was like Wuthering Heights and I didn’t know anything about Wuthering Heights And also it didn’t feel like ice-skating book in spring time would be good. So despite my doubts and slight optimism, this far exceeded my expectations. The writing really felt like a movie. It makes sense from reading the acknowledgments that the author was inspired by Taylor Jenkins read because the storytelling in this book reminded me a lot of Daisy Jones and the Six and that there are segments of interviews and an ongoing mystery throughout the book. That’s not the main focus of it but an underlying part of the book.

For the production quality of this audiobook alone I recommend it, and then on top of it, the content of it is really good. 

While, this book was super good and during it I was eating it up immediately after reading it, I just think that this whole book could’ve been resolved if Heath had just been honest about how he was feeling and had a conversation instead of running away. Now I get that he had a troubled past and he probably had a hard time Dealing with his feelings when he thought that Katerina was going to be with Garrett, but if he had just talked about his jealousy instead of running away, then they could’ve talked about the ice-skating partnership. The fact that he cheated on Katerina with Bella is just unforgivable and then yes I get that they weren’t together and then they had Relations again and that’s what prompted the kid but the initial cheating is just like what all because you wouldn’t talk to her about what you went through and then she got upset understandably because you didn’t share something so I think Heath is the worst and he tries to put himself like this nice guy and I just don’t think he’s good and Katrina deserves better and she deserves a better friend than Bella. Bella sucks. Her brother Garrett is so much better. Also I am proud of myself for calling the “twist” at the end (the pills and Francesca) and even though I sensed it it was still an enjoyable way to discover how it played out.
 

Also, I think it’s very cool that they got an actual fit we are too The book.
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