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Average rating4
wow this was a amazing book and is a debut YA Horror novel. A deal with a pulsating river of blood you've said more that enough. The payoff is really satisfying and plays to well-established themes throughout: power, rejection, loss, loneliness, betrayal, surrender and retribution.
Paris isn't my favorite setting and ballerinas aren't my favorite characters, but I was really interested to see how those things fared in a horror book. And Jamison Shea didn't disappoint! The horror is both supernatural and all too normal. It puts everyone's faults on display, so I wasn't sure how it was all going to work out. I would never have guessed the ending! I just keep thinking about it. So good.
I did not love the scenes in the ballet academy, but that is a personal preference.
And one last praise. The audiobook is so freaking good! It helped me visualize the book and create scenes in my head.
Ballet body horror was not at all a thing I'd have expected to ever find myself enjoying, but I liked this book. This is a shimmering feverdream of a novel - no jump scares here, the frightening bits roll in slowly and organically. Not everyone's topic, but the adventurous stand a good chance at enjoying this.