Review: well researched, thoroughly engaging
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 22, 2014
I was so happy when I saw this story was being published because I'd been wanting to read a story set in the cycling world since I started spinning. But then for some idiotic reason I put off reading this for a couple of months. I don't know why because this was a thoroughly engaging story.Chris works in a bike shop in Boulder, Co and is also a writer for Cycloworld. There he meets Luca Biondi a member of the Antano-Clark cycling team in Boulder for training. Chris is a great narrator. He is not perfect but he is close to it. Luca has been living his life as a "monk" and in the closet. He comes from very humble origins and cycling is the only way he sees to make something of his future so keeping his homosexuality quiet is what he wants most. When Chris actions jeopardize Luca's plans he does act like a jerk, no way around that. But it is a lesson for both of them in the end. I like that the end feels realistic and not wishful thinking.The cycling setting is great and the research that went into this is palpable and made this a satisfying read for me.