A review by theboricuabookworm
The Favorites by Layne Fargo

5.0

absolutely gripping. A ride from start to finish, I devoured this in two days. I can't speak to this being a Wuthering Heights inspired story as someone who never finished it (please hold the tomatoes) but it was so angsty and dramatic and everything I'd expect from what I've heard about that story. I felt like I couldn't catch my breath as the story unfolded in front of me. And yes I was here for the messiness and the drama but I was also enraptured by the guts at the heart of the story. I felt like I was reading a tell-all documentary that actually cared about it's subjects and what they endured. 

Fargo got me deeply invested in some flawed people who at first I was rooting for their downfall but by the end I was basking in their triumphs. Heath never lost me but there were some times when I just wanted to shake Kat, but she got there in the end and elevated my heart rate many times in the middle.  I'm going to be recommending this to anyone and everyone for a good long while. 

Highly recommend the audio, with a full cast it made the story even more intense, all the epistolary elements had individual voices and it was just such an enhancement for the book

p.s. gonna go do my monthly rewatch of the 2018 Tessa Virtue/Scott Moir Olympic Moulin Rouge Free Skate and also my annual rewatch of Spinning Out

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