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sassyykassie 's review for:
The Ballerinas
by Rachel Kapelke-Dale
I thoroughly enjoyed this one! I will have a list of content warnings at the end of this review in case you want them (they will include spoilers). We follow Delphine in present day (2018) at 36 years old coming back to her home in Paris, where she spent most of her life in the ballet. Now she's working as a choreographer following the end of her relationship with famous Russian choreographer Dmitri. She hopes to find her life exactly like it was before she left 13 years ago with her two best friends Margeaux and Lindsay.
However, life isn't that simple. We follow Delphine learning that just because you age doesn't mean you grow up. I loved the feminist route took where although yes it was 100% the focus in the end, it didn't feel like it was preaching. It felt like it was just, here's some real world subtlety about what feminism really is, and how the patriarchy continues to work against us in our daily lives.
CONTENT WARNING:
abortion
gaslighting
cheating
miscarriage
sudden death
death of a loved one (illness)
nonconsensual sexual videos
blackmail
physical injury descriptions (light gore)
However, life isn't that simple. We follow Delphine learning that just because you age doesn't mean you grow up. I loved the feminist route took where although yes it was 100% the focus in the end, it didn't feel like it was preaching. It felt like it was just, here's some real world subtlety about what feminism really is, and how the patriarchy continues to work against us in our daily lives.
CONTENT WARNING:
abortion
gaslighting
cheating
miscarriage
sudden death
death of a loved one (illness)
nonconsensual sexual videos
blackmail
physical injury descriptions (light gore)