You need to sign in or sign up before continuing.
Take a photo of a barcode or cover
chasingholden 's review for:
The Ballerinas
by Rachel Kapelke-Dale
Rachel Kapelke-Dale's novel, The Ballerinas, transports readers directly into the heart of the ballet dancers life, for better and worse. It's not all glamorous but it's a dancers entire world and with Kepelke-Dale's prose we get to experience that world for ourselves, the beauty, the grace, the strength, the competition that runs every dancers life. This novel is also very character driven, with each character so well developed they feel real and the reader forms love or distaste for each character without even realizing it.
After reaching a point in her career Delphine, harboring a secret, leaves her soloist role at the prestigious and exclusive Paris Opera Ballet (POB) to go to St Petersburg, where she remains until reappearing years later back in to the world of the POB, this time with an entirely different goal and career in mind.
This is a slow burn novel with Delphine's secrets very slowly being revealed as the story moves on. In the mean time the narrative goes between the past and the present, a narrative style that I'm not sure works the best for this story but if you pay close attention to the date's it's something you can get through.
If you've ever dreamed of being a ballerina or attending the ballet as an appreciating fan this book is for you. It is not an intense thriller, more of a drama with some suspense so I feel it would be appropriate for readers beginning from early teen to adult. The Ballerinas has something to appeal to all of us whether aesthetically, emotionally, or intellectually every reader will walk away with something positive from this book regardless of your opinion on the book as a whole.
For that reason I rate this book a 3.5, one that is worth reading and seeing it through the end.
Thank you to netgalley for providing an advance e-copy in exchange for my honest opinion. These opinions are mine and mine alone and influenced by nothing more than my own personal taste and experience with literature.
After reaching a point in her career Delphine, harboring a secret, leaves her soloist role at the prestigious and exclusive Paris Opera Ballet (POB) to go to St Petersburg, where she remains until reappearing years later back in to the world of the POB, this time with an entirely different goal and career in mind.
This is a slow burn novel with Delphine's secrets very slowly being revealed as the story moves on. In the mean time the narrative goes between the past and the present, a narrative style that I'm not sure works the best for this story but if you pay close attention to the date's it's something you can get through.
If you've ever dreamed of being a ballerina or attending the ballet as an appreciating fan this book is for you. It is not an intense thriller, more of a drama with some suspense so I feel it would be appropriate for readers beginning from early teen to adult. The Ballerinas has something to appeal to all of us whether aesthetically, emotionally, or intellectually every reader will walk away with something positive from this book regardless of your opinion on the book as a whole.
For that reason I rate this book a 3.5, one that is worth reading and seeing it through the end.
Thank you to netgalley for providing an advance e-copy in exchange for my honest opinion. These opinions are mine and mine alone and influenced by nothing more than my own personal taste and experience with literature.