Axel of Evil

Oh! This is the author who wrote Annie's Wild Ride, which I really enjoyed, & parts of which were very familiar. It just clicked. Cool. I'm not sure how many stars to give it, but I enjoyed it, and don't have any complaints, so it's getting 5. :) Nice inside looks at the figure skating world, and Russia, which was cool. Good mystery, a couple of nice twists, cold war intrigue, & skating politics. It's apparently the 3rd in the series--I'll have to check out the earlier ones. I would get tired pretty quickly of the emphasis on ice skating, but they appear to only be one a year, so I could deal with that.

As someone who was always fascinated by the USSR, I found this story to be very interesting. The writing was witty and the characters interesting enough to keep me reading. I haven't read the previous books in the series and not once felt like I was missing out on anything. Overall a very enjoyable read.