kyleahs_bookshelf 's review for:

The Favorites by Layne Fargo

4.0

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Imagine they turned a season of your mother’s favorite daytime soap opera into a book - this book specifically. The pacing is quick, barely giving you time to process the toxic hot mess express you’re on. Kat and Heath’s tension, passion, and chemistry were so good that I didn’t mind the author favoring closed-door spice. Their relationship drives much of the story, but the rest of the characters only add fuel to the toxic dumpster fire that is their love/hate dynamic.

I was hooked even before they started dropping bomb after bomb—I nearly tripped died on the StairMaster because I was that invested.

This was my first literary fiction read, and honestly, I wasn’t sure I could trust the Insta girlies who raved about it in their stories.