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The Ballerinas
by Rachel Kapelke-Dale
This book was provided to me by netgalley in exhange for a honest review.
" You grow up thinking that you just have to meet the right man, the one who adores you and idolizes you and talks about how much he respects women and all of that shit, and then you'll be safe. But truth is, if you're a woman you're never safe, are you? not really."
I am going to be honest, I didn't think I would finish this book. It started of as slow and all i could do was long for it to end, but im happy I continued it.
The story follows Delphine, who is a ballerina. We follow her first as a child and a teenager and later on as a adult and a middle aged woman. The story starts off with her returning to Paris after being gone to Russia for 13 years. In Paris she reunites with her friends from 13 years ago, Margaux and Lindsey. She has decided to repair her relationship with them while returning home and working at the Paris Opera Ballet school, where she and Margaux and Lindsey met. But she realizes that everything isn't as it seems and that there is something more sinister at play....
This was pitched as a black swan thing, and as soon as I heard that I was on board! However, I was dissapointed to find out that the thriller part didn't take up as much space as I wanted it to. But I did like the overrall story and the pacing and the timejumps, even if it was slow in certain places and i found myself confused. BUT I loved the writing! it was very clever and describtive and i felt like I was part of the story. As a whole I did enjoy the story, It went places I never thought it would and i found myself shocked on multiple occasions. I enjoyed it even with the lack of thriller.
If you are looking for a story about 3 ballerinas, torn apart by time ,together with pinch of black swan and gone girl and loads of feminism, that will make you scream " good for her !" AND will make you feel empowered then THIS is the book for you!
" You grow up thinking that you just have to meet the right man, the one who adores you and idolizes you and talks about how much he respects women and all of that shit, and then you'll be safe. But truth is, if you're a woman you're never safe, are you? not really."
I am going to be honest, I didn't think I would finish this book. It started of as slow and all i could do was long for it to end, but im happy I continued it.
The story follows Delphine, who is a ballerina. We follow her first as a child and a teenager and later on as a adult and a middle aged woman. The story starts off with her returning to Paris after being gone to Russia for 13 years. In Paris she reunites with her friends from 13 years ago, Margaux and Lindsey. She has decided to repair her relationship with them while returning home and working at the Paris Opera Ballet school, where she and Margaux and Lindsey met. But she realizes that everything isn't as it seems and that there is something more sinister at play....
This was pitched as a black swan thing, and as soon as I heard that I was on board! However, I was dissapointed to find out that the thriller part didn't take up as much space as I wanted it to. But I did like the overrall story and the pacing and the timejumps, even if it was slow in certain places and i found myself confused. BUT I loved the writing! it was very clever and describtive and i felt like I was part of the story. As a whole I did enjoy the story, It went places I never thought it would and i found myself shocked on multiple occasions. I enjoyed it even with the lack of thriller.
If you are looking for a story about 3 ballerinas, torn apart by time ,together with pinch of black swan and gone girl and loads of feminism, that will make you scream " good for her !" AND will make you feel empowered then THIS is the book for you!