A review by jenna0010
Astonish Me by Maggie Shipstead

2.0

A story of domestic routines and the demands of professional ballet, Shipstead's novel is beautiful and melancholy in its deferred dreams and family dramas. I was in the mood for ballet, bodies stretching graceful and taut, and this novel was enough. The characters didn't quite connect for me and the story itself was quite underwhelming but Russia! Ballet! Forbidden love!