Skate Crime (A Figure Skating Mystery, #5) by Alina Adams

Skate Crime (A Figure Skating Mystery, #5) Reviews

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  Jennifer

  I realized about 2/3 of the way through this book that I do not like the main character in the book. It sounds ridiculous - but it was actually an epiphany of sorts. The first book in this series was written rather poorly. The second was so improved that I thought - Ah Ha! Maybe this series will really get good! And it did get better. But once you realize that you don't really like the main character in the series - it's really hard to want to read any more of the books.
  
  All that being said - I did like the story here. It of course revolved around a death on skates - but most of the story was told in flashbacks and I found the stories of the people surrounding the murder victim really interesting. It also kept the plot line off of our sleuthing reporter Bex - which probably helped as well.
  
  Bex does have her own little epiphany toward the end of the book - perhaps showing the first signs of growing up? Sadly I think it is too late for my taste and I think this will be the last book I read in this series. There are too many good reads out there to keep reading books that don't love back.
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  Deanna

  As a huge figure skating fan (I travel all over to attend US Nationals and World Championships), I’ve enjoyed this mystery series. I got a bit mixed up with who was who, due to mulitple flashbacks — although the flashbacks themselves I enjoyed — but I still got several pleasant hours of reading in the setting of my favorite sport.
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  Joy Gerbode

  Another mystery centering around the figure skating world. I did not care for all the references to skating politics, abuse, etc. It may be part of that world, but it's not a part I really cared to dwell on.
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  Lindsey Duncan

  I love Alina Adams' complex, compelling take on the skating world, and her signature style is very much in evidence in Skate Crime, but there are definitely changes from the previous books.
  
  There has always been a healthy dose of darkness and betrayal in Adams' breathless portrayal of the skating world, but this time, it seemed more intense and somber. I'd tentatively label Skate Crime as a black comedy.
  
  Format-wise, Adams makes the interesting choice of telling us the backstories of various characters directly through their eyes. It's very well-done and convincing, but I did notice that the only characters we heard from were the ladies.
  
  Another format twist is the use of forum posts at the head of many chapters to highlight the absurdity of fans. At first, it's entertaining but seems quite random. Later in the book, however, I became aware there was a more thematic reason for these entries.
  
  As always, I devoured this book and particularly enjoyed Bex's blundering on more fronts than usual. Her proactive sleuthing is back with a vengeance, though I did feel as if her reason for jumping to a conclusion of murder needed to be fleshed out more initially.
  
  Looking forward to another book in this series, but hoping this is the bottom line for its darker edge.
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  Anita

  Apparantly this author has written other books in the same genre and this book is one of a series. Bex is a producer for a sports network and she mostly covers skating stories. When Lucian Pryce a renowned coach dies in a skating accident on the eve of a tribute show in his honor, Bex is the only one who thinks it's murder and not an accident. I like how the author tells each different characters stories. I wish I would have read the other mysteries in the series first as they are referred to often and I didn't really know what was being referred to. The ending was anti-climatic.
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  Pam

  This book was fun to read, but I found it hard to keep the characters straight. There was also not quite as much suspense as I like and the romantic story line for the main character lacked depth. At least the author has a good knowledge of figure skating and dealt with the details of the sport realistically.
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  Anne

  Apparently there are several other of these skating mysteries - and it would have been good to read them before this one as text assumes one already know several of the other characters that are referred to. Not important for the plot, really, but detracts from story overall. Characters flat.
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  Chris Curtis

  This series got a lot better as it went along but I never warmed to the main character.
  
  This book was about the murder of a male skating coach in his 60s. You would never know it from the picture of young female legs in white female skates on the cover.
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  Heather G Gentle

  A friend was nice enough to pick this one up for me because of my ice-skating obsession:) It was a good Sunday afternoon mystery read and the author didn't take it too seriously so that made it just kitschy and fun..
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  Linda

  Great fun and entertaining!
  
  I have read the series, frone right after another...I just wanted to continue
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Iread the entire series one right after another, didn'T WANT IT TO END.
  
  
  
  
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  Lynn Calvin

  Amazon received
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  Delia

  This was an interesting look at the world of skating. Not the kind of book I usually choose but it was well written and kept you guessing.
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  Laura

  The best of the series. The mystery itself wasn't huge, but the character insights into the figure skaters and the moral ambiguity of the ending were very compelling.
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  Salsabrarian

  I've enjoyed the previous figure skating mysteries by this author but this one didn't quite measure up. Still, enjoyable and light and I've always enjoyed her inside look on the skating world.