Originally published at Eight Hobbits
The Perfect Blindside by Leslea Wahl on Amazon
Skiing is my favorite sport. You have to look hard to find it in books, TV shows, or movies. I can rattle off the top of my head random places where there is skiing or snowboarding, and I mean random. The James Bond film, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service comes to mind, and I didn’t watch all of it…just the skiing scenes. The Backyardigans show has snow sports, and so does Pingu, a Swiss-German Claymation series about emperor penguins. And of course, if you are a diehard snow sport enthusiast, you might have seen a Warren Miller movie or three.
So, imagine my surprise when a friend handed me a copy of The Perfect Blindside. For me, reading can’t be any more fun than a mystery set in a Colorado mining town, wrapped up with a little romance and plenty of tricks on the snow. The title of the book is named for a snowboarding trick, and the anti-hero, Jake Taylor is a snowboarding Olympic silver medalist.
Unfortunately for Jake, he manages to tick
