Man, the gymnastics world just sounds so brutal. There was a lot of description (too much in my opinion) of taping up toes, hands, blisters, etc.... All that comes with the world.

Sera (and her friend Lucy) wants to go to the Olympics like every other gymnast. She will do anything she can to get there. Work hard, never play. Be the best. Even if it means screwing someone else over!

When Lucy is constantly abused and she finally decides to speak out about it, Sera does not have her back and keeps quiet, saying she's making it up. Lucy leaves because of this and Sera continues on without her. That made me so upset....Sera was in the room sometimes while Lucy was being abused but of course the doctor says it's all "a medical necessity" talking advantage of the fact that they were so young at the time, they may not have known exactly that it was abuse. (Which is another sad fact that their parents never talked to them about sexual abuse?)

There are a lot of parallels in this book to the real life scandal of the doctor that sexually abused so many gymnasts over so many years. There are a lot of familiar names of real gymnasts that I got excited over if I knew the name well (like Simone Biles).