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Bright Burning Stars
by A.K. Small
I received an arc from the publisher via NetGalley for an honest review.
I want to find a good YA ballet book. All that I have read (about 8) are too sexualized, too catty, too over the top, and overall lacking.
This book started off with a rarity: 2 dear friends. Main and secondary characters aren’t really fleshed out. Marine is vaguely haunted by guilt
Of her dead twin brother and that’s why she wants to dance. Kate’s mother walked out on her as a child and that is why she dances. Only not really. Language and phrasings are unnecessarily flowery and odd. Typically big plots are quick and swept under the rug.
Spoilers:
Kate gets pregnant early in the book, she takes some tea, gets sick, is counseled to seek therapy, and then returns to class and dance. Only a few mentions of it later.
Kate becomes addicted to pills. Only she does initially, then it is ignored for a month or so when she understudies, then she needs them again.
Overall the ending and partner switching didn’t make sense.
Still searching for a good ballet YA that is well written and doesn’t go off the rails.
I want to find a good YA ballet book. All that I have read (about 8) are too sexualized, too catty, too over the top, and overall lacking.
This book started off with a rarity: 2 dear friends. Main and secondary characters aren’t really fleshed out. Marine is vaguely haunted by guilt
Of her dead twin brother and that’s why she wants to dance. Kate’s mother walked out on her as a child and that is why she dances. Only not really. Language and phrasings are unnecessarily flowery and odd. Typically big plots are quick and swept under the rug.
Spoilers:
Kate gets pregnant early in the book, she takes some tea, gets sick, is counseled to seek therapy, and then returns to class and dance. Only a few mentions of it later.
Kate becomes addicted to pills. Only she does initially, then it is ignored for a month or so when she understudies, then she needs them again.
Overall the ending and partner switching didn’t make sense.
Still searching for a good ballet YA that is well written and doesn’t go off the rails.