Tiny Pretty Things
Author: Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton
Publication Date: July 2nd 2015
Publisher: HarperTeen
~A copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review~
Black Swan meets Pretty Little Liars in this soapy, drama-packed novel featuring diverse characters who will do anything to be the prima at their elite ballet school.
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.
Well, Tiny Pretty Things is not pretty, and not in the way
you think. Tiny Pretty Things is a dark, twisted and honestly, completely
cutthroat. I avoided all reviews of Tiny Pretty Things going in, I think I only
read one a week before it, which made me worry about the drama, because you
know me and unnecessary drama, so I was surprised by how much I actually loved
the drama, and I think that is mainly because the drama in Tiny Pretty Things
isn't unnecessary and is completely realistic in its setting, because Tiny
Pretty Things shows the dark side of ballet, how competitive and ruthless it
is.
