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An entertaining book about a kid who runs track. Another kid on his middle school team borrows his spikes and races in his place in a meet, and proceeds to win a state record. Then, while the van is traveling home, it crashes into a river and everybody on board dies. The main character was riding with his parents and he lives. He goes sort of psychologically batty and does nothing but run. He starts winning all of the state records, and he doesn’t even remember what’s happening to him or anybody from his old team. He goes to high school and starts remembering things, and is by far the best runner in the state and gets all of the records in everything. He gets involved in some shady thing with a guy who pretends to be using him for research into physiology and pays him huge amounts of money and buys him a car, but really he’s just trying to bribe the kid into coming to the state school for college so he can run for them. At one point the kid gets banned from running because he “cheated” by not reporting people who had spiked him on purpose. Then in the end he is at a press conference where he’s supposed to sign at the state school, but instead he says he will go to that school but won’t run for them, and exposes the whole entire scandal. There are lots of other details like love interests, and the kid finally being allowed to attend the honors part of his school, where he does really well. Overall, the book is entertaining but not a great work of literature or anything. Lots of it is just unbelievable, like the weird amnesia stuff.

2022-11-14 16:16