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Tiny Pretty Things by Dhonielle Clayton, Sona Charaipotra Series: Tiny Pretty Things #1
Published by HarperTeen on 7/12/16
Genres: Contemporary, Mystery & Detective, Young Adult
Pages: 464
Format: Ebook
Source: Reviewer Purchase
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Gigi, Bette, and June, three top students at an exclusive Manhattan ballet school, have seen their fair share of drama. Free-spirited new girl Gigi just wants to dance—but the very act might kill her. Privileged New Yorker Bette's desire to escape the shadow of her ballet-star sister brings out a dangerous edge in her. And perfectionist June needs to land a lead role this year or her controlling mother will put an end to her dancing dreams forever.
When every dancer is both friend and foe, the girls will sacrifice, manipulate, and backstab to be the best of the best.
Short and Sweet Review
At the American Ballet Company our main characters Gigi, Bette, and June just want to be Prima Ballerina, and they’ll do whatever it takes to get to the top even if it includes sabotage and backstabbing.
In this book we get the POVs of each girl and there wasn’t one I liked more than the other. I can honestly say I wasn’t attached to any of the characters. Gigi is a sweet girl and during the course of this book she gets most of the lead roles. Roles that Bette thinks belong to her. Bette is known as the top ballerina and is somewhat of a bully. Bette will do a lot of things to make people question themselves and want to quit. June on the other hand is basically an understudy she doesn’t get lead roles or solos. June doesn’t have a lot of friends and she pushes people away.
Each of these girls has problems, Gigi with her health, Bette with her pill popping, and June with her bulimia. We learn more about each girl when we read from their POVs, but the only one I felt sorry for was Gigi. A lot of messed up things were happening to Gigi and she really is a sweet girl and at some point this stuff does take a toll on her and she does have a few breakdowns. I’m not even going to get into the romance because I found it irrelevant.
I felt like some of the things that were happening were just too much but I will read the next book just to see what will happen.
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