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A review by spinsterfun
The Ballerinas by Rachel Kapelke-Dale
1.0
DNF at about 30%. I love ballet books and read every one I come across. I love thrillers, I love nasty female leads--I don't need likable characters to keep going with a book. But I do need something interesting to happen, plotwise, and I wasn't finding that here. The writing is also pretty average; no lyrical sentences or thought-provoking turns of phrase.
I really think this is miscategorized as a thriller. The tone, at least in the first third, is more women's fiction. There's not a constant sense of foreboding or a feeling that something awful is just around the corner, which is what someone picking up a thriller is going to expect.
I really think this is miscategorized as a thriller. The tone, at least in the first third, is more women's fiction. There's not a constant sense of foreboding or a feeling that something awful is just around the corner, which is what someone picking up a thriller is going to expect.