oldrunningmom 's review for:

Gold by Chris Cleave

2.0

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The premise of this book really interested me...2 competitive female cyclists, training for their last Olympics. One is the devil, hard as nails, ruthless, a terrible person. The other is an angel, a totally nice person, who gets taken advantage of, by the other cyclist in ways that I could not fathom. Oh, and they are best friends! Seriously! And then there is a guy, married to the "angel", part of a triangle that this book is based on. Oh heck, let's throw in a child with leukemia, who has a Star Wars obsession, and you have one of the most manipulative, melodramatic books I have read in a long time. If you decide to read this book, you will be completely frustrated with the characters, as I was, hitting yourself over the head with it. I did not like this book at all, but read the whole thing to see if it would get any better. The only reason I gave it 2 stars, is that the writing is good, and made me able to read it.