by Cecil Castellucci
Summary: The year is 1982, the setting is New York, New York. Rose is in a black period. She loves ballet, but her lack of confidence holds her back, and her social life is in ruins because of her backstabbing ex-BFF. Then one night, the Soviet girl next door comes through her window and takes her o...
This turned out to be one of my favorite books that I have read this year. The words just rolled off the pages and into my brain. I have had this book sitting around since last June and wasn't prompted to read it until I saw Cecil Castellucci read from her entry in Geektastic about how not to act ...
I've really enjoyed some of Ms. Castellucci's previous books, but I was pretty disappointed by this one. It just screamed "I'M TEACHING YOU A VALUABLE LESSON ABOUT THE COMMONALITY OF HUMAN EXISTENCE" from beginning to end. There were some compelling bits, mostly having to do with Rose's internal con...
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