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emotional
hopeful
inspiring
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Yes yes yes. I loved this.
The emotional agony of injury and losing your dreams.
The social confusion of starting again and navigating family and school relationships when your world has been upended.
The joy of art and dance: ballet or music theatre.
Making mistakes and owning mistakes and making amends.
Intersectionality and societal racism and sexism and hopes and dreams for a better tomorrow.
Finding connections and finding identity with all the messy honesty of high school and a side of balletic passion.
I loved it.
The emotional agony of injury and losing your dreams.
The social confusion of starting again and navigating family and school relationships when your world has been upended.
The joy of art and dance: ballet or music theatre.
Making mistakes and owning mistakes and making amends.
Intersectionality and societal racism and sexism and hopes and dreams for a better tomorrow.
Finding connections and finding identity with all the messy honesty of high school and a side of balletic passion.
I loved it.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Grief
Minor: Racism and Panic attacks/disorders
wordswitwonder's review
funny
hopeful
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
This book at its core is about learning how to move forward after losing the ability to do something you love and how to make the broken into something worthwhile. The author does a great job of showcasing the various emotions someone might face in this kind of situation from anger at the world to depression to finding hope. This book also did a great job of introducing the idea of racism in the ballet world, which I will be educating myself more on.
My biggest complaints about this book are I think the pacing was somewhat inconsistent and there were times the author was a little heavy handed with explaining the point of the story instead of trusting the audience to figure it out.
My biggest complaints about this book are I think the pacing was somewhat inconsistent and there were times the author was a little heavy handed with explaining the point of the story instead of trusting the audience to figure it out.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Xenophobia and Racism
Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Medical trauma
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