by Martha Schabas
Note: The review below was taken directly from my Goodreads account. First, I want to say that Georgia is probably one of the stupidest protagonist I've ever read. She is thicker than bricks and denser than the water pressure in the Mariana Trench. Besides being completely air-headed, I'm so displ...
Various Positions is the story of a deeply misguided girl and her attempts to find a little meaning in life through sex.If you just imagined that Georgia turns into a nymphomaniac, congratulations, you totally missed the point. Then again, so does she. So does the entire book. Fair warning: This rev...
Disappointing. It started out very strong--emotional, powerful, and difficult--but faded as it had room to reveal inconsistencies, a dated feel, an overly simplistic setup, and unbelievable actions on the part of the adult characters.Also, terrible cover--that's not the way romantic tutus hang, her ...
Martha Schabas’ debut VARIOUS POSITIONS has had a less-than-stellar reputation amongst my friends and other online reviewers, with a lot of hatred going towards it. I went into it not knowing what to expect other than ballet and sex. But something about the premise intrigued me, even though I am nor...
Also appears here.Various Positions is the story of a deeply misguided girl and her attempts to find a little meaning in life through sex.If you just imagined that Georgia turns into a nymphomaniac, congratulations, you totally missed the point. Then again, so does she. So does the entire book. Fair...
See more of my reviews at Once Upon a Prologue Debut author Marsha Schabas catapults the reader into Georgia's world - the powerful, stressing, seductive world of the ballet. I took ballet for five years, so I remembered some of the terms, the positions, and the charged atmosphere of the dressing ...
Since the beginning of time (okay, so maybe not that long), there has been a great debate of "What is YA?". I mean, really? What makes a YA book different from a Middle Grade book and a different from an Adult book? I feel like most people would automatically assume it would be the age of the protag...
Read This Review & More Like It On My Blog!That was... odd. Weird. Uncomfortable. Utterly not what I thought I was getting: a book about ballet dancers at an exclusive academy. This made me think quite often of last year's movie Black Swan except the whole thing where ballet is not the focus at all:...
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