What can I say? The Favorites is a favorite, a top read for me in 2024 even though it won't be out until 2025!

I LOVED this book, Layne Fargo is a favorite author and this solidifies her as a must read, auto-buy author as we bookstagrammers say. I loved this book so much that I put off finishing it just because I was going to be sad to leave the story behind.

Why did I love this book? It's a wonderful ode to Wuthering Heights but also 100% it's own mesmerizing story of talent, ambition, revenge, love, anger, toxic spaces, and messy lives... all wrapped up in a soapy (in a good way) drama about ice dancers. Fargo's plot and character development is excellent, the pacing of the story had me hooked and holding on, staying up for just one more chapter, and the drop in perspectives from other characters/transcripts/blog posts added tension to the story, worked to bring in needed outside views and big picture themes, and also worked to bring in secondary characters into the story in an effective way.