I was today years old when I realized that I could put a meme of a cat ice skating on a human’s body as my featured image. I’ve been CBR’ing since like CBR 6 and I’ve always been a good girl and put the book cover out front. Not today though, because I’m a rebel!
As cute as that ice skating man cat is though, Blade is about murder (dun dun dun!). Ana was a future / almost Olympic skater at an elite training school up until she was sixteen. She abruptly left skating for “reasons” (don’t want to ruin it) and never looked back. In the next fourteen years, she became a children’s advocate lawyer. She’s called back to the elite school when one of her former friends / rivals / Orphans (the kids who lived at the school without parents nearby) Joanne asks for her help. Joanne’s daughter Grace is a student at the skating school, and she’s under suspicion for killing her coach with an ice skate to the neck.
This is one of those books where we swing back and forth between the “now” and the “then”, and you slowly get bits and pieces of the story to build a full picture. Sometimes that’s annoying, but I didn’t find it so here. We learn about Ana and her fellow Orphans all those years ago, and what they went through and did. Some of it was normal teen stuff, but some was very serious. There’s an undercurrent of protecting the institution and the coaches that I know is true of plenty of sports. I liked this book and would totally recommend it.
