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DANCE OF SHADOWS by Yelena Black is the first book in the series, with a sequel coming out in Winter 2014. It tells the story of Vanessa Adler, the younger sister of Margaret Adler who attended the New York Ballet Academy and then mysteriously disappeared. Three years after this Vanessa follows in h...
tl:dr | ✭✭✩✩✩ | I didn’t really like this book. Its supernatural, and outside of the opening prologue, it tries to shy away as much as possible from the supernatural until the last minute. I didn’t really care for the characters or their development. I only really liked the bits where she was dancin...
Well this turned out to be nothing like I thought. I was sort of expecting a YA version of 'Black Swan' with this one, but it was nothing at all like Black Swan.I liked it a lot, all the same. Started off interestingly enough, though was a little on the slow side, but I liked reading about Vanessa a...
I’m the last person who would criticize someone’s writing, but I do think I can criticize the moronic plot that the book packagers came up with. (Tinderbox Books LLC came up with the concept, pitched it to Bloomsbury, hired the writer Yelena Black.) It seems like a case where more attention was paid...
It seems that a lot of people didn't enjoy Dance of Shadows. It's set in a tradition first created by Twilight and continued by Fallen, and I read it in the light of this tradition. I didn't expect to be forced to think about anything and just wanted a quick fluffy read, and this was pretty much wha...