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jactns 's review for:
The Ballerinas
by Rachel Kapelke-Dale
The writing style and language of this book was incredibly natural and enjoyable, and the author included beautiful and vivid description of ballet movement. It is clear that the author understands the world of ballet very well, but I’m taking a star off because I’m not sure how well the author understood her characters or her plot.
There were quite a few moments where I thought ‘whoa, why would that character do that?’, and not in a surprise plot twist kind of way - more like an out of character, confusing like of way. It’s like there wasn’t enough time to explain enough about each player before they did something shocking, and I think maybe the reason is that there are just too many characters that feel like they would be labeled as secondary characters. There’s one primary and probably 7 secondaries, between 1-3 true tertiaries, and then a few background players, which is just a lot of ‘important’ people in a 300ish page book.
I’m also not sure exactly how one would describe this plot because there are so many pieces and climaxes in the book that I truly couldn’t tell you what the story was about - other than a group of ballet friends and their various crises.
That sounds like a lot of criticism but overall I enjoyed it other than the ‘well that escalated quickly’ moments, so overall 4 out of 5 and thank you NetGalley for the advanced copy.
There were quite a few moments where I thought ‘whoa, why would that character do that?’, and not in a surprise plot twist kind of way - more like an out of character, confusing like of way. It’s like there wasn’t enough time to explain enough about each player before they did something shocking, and I think maybe the reason is that there are just too many characters that feel like they would be labeled as secondary characters. There’s one primary and probably 7 secondaries, between 1-3 true tertiaries, and then a few background players, which is just a lot of ‘important’ people in a 300ish page book.
I’m also not sure exactly how one would describe this plot because there are so many pieces and climaxes in the book that I truly couldn’t tell you what the story was about - other than a group of ballet friends and their various crises.
That sounds like a lot of criticism but overall I enjoyed it other than the ‘well that escalated quickly’ moments, so overall 4 out of 5 and thank you NetGalley for the advanced copy.