He's cute, he plays guitar and he's offering a whole future that Hannah never considered. Hannah doesn't mind, until a chance encounter in a restaurant brings Jacob into her life.
And while she might not be a prima ballerina yet, she's moving up the ranks and surely if she works hard enough she can make it happen.īut devoting her whole life to ballet leaves very little time for anything else: friends, family, school have all fallen by the wayside. She gets to be up on stage in front of adoring crowds every night. All things aside, it's a lesson to the reader of the complete exhaustion and intense scrutiny of the body that a ballet dancer will go through.As a dancer with the Manhattan Ballet Company, nineteen-year-old Hannah Ward is living her childhood dream. I took ballet as a child (I felt fairly confident that Mikhail Baryshnikov and I were meant to marry one day), but I soon found I wasn't as coordinated as I needed to be and dropped it soon after, so I don't remember anything but the basics (plìe, pirouette, etc.) But even if the terms for the movements are confusing, it's not necessary to have the accurate image in your mind, as you can pretty much ascertain that it's a lot of amazingly difficult twists, turns, pirouettes, and leaps. While there are several ballet terms in the book, you don't need to be an expert in the craft to grasp it. It is extremely well-told, with characters that genuinely bounded off the page with their dedication, discipline, and sometimes, dramatic and gossipy sides that was quite believable for a group of people so closely working together.
For lack of a better way to phrase it, I was pleasantly surprised by this story.
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