I received this book from NetGalley. Overall this was a very good book and I enjoyed it very much. It was very well written and well researched. I would suggest having some prior knowledge of ballet before reading the book as it could get confusing with all of the technical terms that are used. There is a glossary at the back of the book which does explain these terms (as I do not read the index of books, I only found the glossary when I was finished reading the book)and a lot more terms are explained as well but with no prior knowledge, it might be difficult to imagine the steps. I absolutely did not like the mother, Anna, in this story. She is a selfish, overbearing ballet mom. I could understand why she was like that but she was definitely too much for me at some points. There were a few characters in this book (2 to be exact - I do not want to mention the names of the characters in case I give away a spoiler) who i absolutely loved and I just wish that they could have been in the story a little bit more. I do feel though that if they had been in the story more then the story itself might have been very different and I loved it the way it was. There were some characters that I am not sure if I should have liked or not. A lot of the characters seemed one way and turned into something else and with some of the characters, even after I finished the book, I could not tell if I was meant to have liked them or not. I am unsure about the way that the book ended. That is just a personal preference for me. There are many ways that it could have ended but ultimately, even though it left me a little bit unsure, this was probably the best ending.
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