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The Ballerinas
by Rachel Kapelke-Dale
Ballet has always been one of my favorite things and I love reading about it. Ballet is so beautiful and so ugly. From foot deformities to eating disorders, the world of ballet is fascinating.
This book follows three dancers (Delphine and her best friends Lindsay and Margaux) as we alternate between their teenage years and their present day lives. (This gets confusing at times, as the gap between then and now begins to close.) Now in their late thirties they are close to aging out of dancing. They are all unlikeable, but reading about them was still enjoyable.
This books biggest flaw is that it can’t decide what it wants its big moment to be. There’s way too much going on. There’s a “mystery” around what happened to Lindsay years before and when it’s revealed, it’s anticlimactic and honestly a little silly. There’s the situation with Delphine’s adolescent crush Jacques, a male dancer with a horrible secret. And finally, there’s the terrible ending, which really seems to come out of nowhere.
If the story connected a little better and had a better ending, I would have rated it higher.
This book follows three dancers (Delphine and her best friends Lindsay and Margaux) as we alternate between their teenage years and their present day lives. (This gets confusing at times, as the gap between then and now begins to close.) Now in their late thirties they are close to aging out of dancing. They are all unlikeable, but reading about them was still enjoyable.
This books biggest flaw is that it can’t decide what it wants its big moment to be. There’s way too much going on. There’s a “mystery” around what happened to Lindsay years before and when it’s revealed, it’s anticlimactic and honestly a little silly. There’s the situation with Delphine’s adolescent crush Jacques, a male dancer with a horrible secret. And finally, there’s the terrible ending, which really seems to come out of nowhere.
If the story connected a little better and had a better ending, I would have rated it higher.