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The Favorites

Auteur(s): Layne Fargo
Narrateur(s): Christine Lakin, Louisa Zhu, Amy Landon, Elena Rey, Valerie Rose Lohman, Suzanne Toren, Graham Halstead, Julia Emelin, Layne Fargo, Eric Yang, Johnny Weir
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To the world, they were a scandal. To each other, an obsession.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An epic love story set in the sparkling, savage sphere of elite figure skating starring a woman determined to carve her own path on and off the ice

“Part Wuthering Heights and part Daisy Jones & The Six, this novel is as brilliantly choreographed as a gold medal performance and will keep you guessing until its last page.”—Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of By Any Other Name

She might not have a famous name, funding, or her family’s support, but Katarina Shaw has always known that she was destined to become an Olympic skater. When she meets Heath Rocha, a lonely kid stuck in the foster care system, their instant connection makes them a formidable duo on the ice. Clinging to skating—and each other—to escape their turbulent lives, Kat and Heath go from childhood sweethearts to champion ice dancers, captivating the world with their scorching chemistry, rebellious style, and roller-coaster relationship.

Until a shocking incident at the Olympic Games brings their partnership to a sudden end.

As the ten-year anniversary of their final skate approaches, an unauthorized documentary reignites the public obsession with Shaw and Rocha, claiming to uncover the “real story” through interviews with their closest friends and fiercest rivals. Kat wants nothing to do with the documentary, but she can’t stand the thought of someone else defining her legacy. So, after a decade of silence, she’s telling her story: from the childhood tragedies that created her all-consuming bond with Heath to the clash of desires that tore them apart. Sensational rumors have haunted their every step for years, but the truth may be even more shocking than the headlines.

©2025 Layne Fargo (P)2025 Random House Audio
Fiction de genre Fiction femmes Le choix des éditeurs Récits initiatiques Sportive

Ce que les critiques en disent

The Favorites is a dizzying left hook to the jaw that drops the reader behind the scenes of competitive pairs ice dancing. . . . [Fargo’s] characters are unabashedly extra.”—The Washington Post

“The horny ice skating novel The Favorites could not have possibly arrived at a more perfect time. . . . Immersive, wildly addictive.”—Paste

“[The Favorites] has a simple premise, executed perfectly: Wuthering Heights, but make it Olympic figure skaters. . . . So effing good.”—CrimeReads

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Great Story!

Overall great and captivating story and performed beautifully!! This review would have been 5 stars no doubt if it wasn’t for the Heath and Bella spin off…it felt unnecessary and unrelatable. Nevertheless, love Layne Fargo’s work!

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More engrossing than I expected

I bought this audiobook based on an online recommendation, and good reviews. I was pleasantly surprised! It was more engrossing than I expected it to be. The main characters were so well drawn, Katerina in particular. What a great character! I took away a star because there were one or two eye rolling moments where I felt like our protagonist had too many hardships at the height of the most important moments of her life. Overall, a great book!

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Story Has it All

Highly recommend Intriguing, suspense, cut throat, romance, will be looking for more from this author.

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Enthralling

Fans of Daisy Jones will love this. As an ice dance lover, this hit the spot. So well done

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A MUST LISTEN

Love love love! The push and pull between Katarina and Heath was everything! I laughed, I questions, I CRIED!!

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Mixed Feelings

I am deeply ambivalent about this one. The production value is very good. The pacing of the narrators moves the listening experience along nicely; so, I have no real complaints in the performance category. It's the overall impact or listening pleasure that I cannot separate from the things that I find deeply irritating about the story. Spoiler: this " romance" doesn't really have a Happily Ever After or a Happy for Now ending which should disqualify it as a romance. On top of that, the melodrama is incredibly thick here, which normally doesn't disable me from being able to enjoy a book but there's something about the " layout" that is both addictive and incredibly irritating. I've seen this book reviewed as a cross between Daisy Jones and.... and the interview style of a documentary around a controversial champion Ice Dance Figure Skating team that don't participate in the documentary, and the actual relationship story is told from the FMC's POV as well as some insights given by secondary characters. The problem is that although the MMC speaks , there is no internal dialog for him. We never understand why he does the incredibly harmful things he does to the main romantic relationship. Mariana Zapparta handles the internal chatter of her female characters in a far more intelligible fashion. There's too much her, even though there's much to dislike about the heroine ( and maybe a bit to be admired by some listeners, just not me). The balance of FMC and MMC is just irritating. I don't leave reviews that are less than 5 stars, and it really pisses me off that this audiobook inspired leaving this review. Apologies all around.

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Hated it

Unless you like ice dancing then please don’t read. Spoiler alert…… if you like a strong female lead who accepts an absolutely unworthy/betraying/lying piece of $&@& for a partner then by all means, enjoy this read

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