Cheating Fate

Cheating Fate By Audrey Pfitzenmaier

Available in The Swift Current Library?: Yes

General topics: Friendship, Love, Relationships, Family (For more mature youth)

Rating out of 5: 5/5

Summary: Cheating Fate is story of 4 teens all best friends who have grown up together in a small town in the BC interior. Their friendship is loyal, compassionate, and trusting they accept their friendship bonds with a resoluteness that only another teen could understand. When the 4 survive a serious snowmobile accident and soon discover that they share remarkable and frightening memorties of their near-death experiences. All of the 4 teens fear that their fates are sealed and that they will die at some unknown time-together. The book is narrated and paced through 4 distinct voices, the voices of the 4 teens who survive the accident.

Sukhwinder the laidback Indo-Canadian teenager who loves his friends but gets lured into illegal activity with his irband cousins.

Kyle is a restless teen and the rebal of the bunch wanting to conquer the world of extreme motocross with his wreckless and extreme riding.

Jeremy is a sensitive, caring teenager, who craves attention from a busy single father and an absentee mother.

Cassidy the only girl in the group of 4 fears for the boys and their flawed sense of invincibility.

Tension builds as the group of friends decide together that they must separate into pairs in order to cheat fate rather than tempt it. But in their reckless and vulnerability, they surrender to the idea that life without each other just isn't worth living anymore, even if it means discovering that there are no human powers to alter fate.

Good Points: - the group of friends stop at nothing to keep their friendship alive, even when they don't see each other they stay in touch

- very well written

- Great book is you love suspense, thrill, mystery, love, friendship, or a good read

- Writen in 4 distinct views (you get to see all sides of the story)

Bad Points: - No bad points in the book

Overall Review: Cheating Fate was one of the best books i have ever read. It's suspenseful, thrilling, mysterious, keeps you guessing, doesn't spill any of the events ahead of time to ruin the book. This book is a good read for anyone who likes a longer book, but nothing that drags out to far. it's intended for young adult or mature youth. The book moves along smoothly as it switches back and forth between the 4 distinct views of the friends. it keeps them simple and straight so you don't get confused between who is talking and telling the story at the time.

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