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A review by merlin_reads
The Midnight Dance by Nikki Katz
2.0
This was another book where the cover fooled me! I've wanted to read this one for awhile, but, sadly, it disappointed me. And also confused me a little.
Meet Penny. She's a ballet dancer at a private finishing school owned by the ellusive 'Master". But something strange is going on, Penny starts getting these horrible headaches followed by memories that aren't hers. Or are they? As Penny starts unraveling the mystery, along with the adorable kitchen hand Cricket, the tale just gets weirder and weirder.
Ok first off, let's just start with this Master person. We as readers know who he is from the flashbacks in the book. However, it is very disturbing how he has all these girls only call him Master and bend to his every will. And even though it's not mentioned, I got some heavy sexual assault vibes, but that might have just been me. Another thing about him I didn't get was his end game. Why was her altering these girls memories? Was he trying to create the perfect match for himself? Was it just to show he could? WHAT WAS HIS END GAME?
And Penny herself, although props to her for wanting to find the truth, made some flat out dumb decisions. Actually, everyone in this book is guilty of that. Especially all of the people who knew what Master was doing but didn't do anything about it... Because of this, it was hard to get behind the love story that popped up.
I will say I did enjoy Katz's writing style. But the story just wasn't for me. Too many things didn't make sense and it was just overall disturbing.
Meet Penny. She's a ballet dancer at a private finishing school owned by the ellusive 'Master". But something strange is going on, Penny starts getting these horrible headaches followed by memories that aren't hers. Or are they? As Penny starts unraveling the mystery, along with the adorable kitchen hand Cricket, the tale just gets weirder and weirder.
Ok first off, let's just start with this Master person. We as readers know who he is from the flashbacks in the book. However, it is very disturbing how he has all these girls only call him Master and bend to his every will. And even though it's not mentioned, I got some heavy sexual assault vibes, but that might have just been me. Another thing about him I didn't get was his end game. Why was her altering these girls memories? Was he trying to create the perfect match for himself? Was it just to show he could? WHAT WAS HIS END GAME?
And Penny herself, although props to her for wanting to find the truth, made some flat out dumb decisions. Actually, everyone in this book is guilty of that. Especially all of the people who knew what Master was doing but didn't do anything about it... Because of this, it was hard to get behind the love story that popped up.
I will say I did enjoy Katz's writing style. But the story just wasn't for me. Too many things didn't make sense and it was just overall disturbing.