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    Bright Burning Stars
    Bright Burning Stars
    Bright Burning Stars
    Audiobook7 hours

    Bright Burning Stars

    Written by A.K. Small

    Narrated by Nicole Wood and Saskia Maarleveld

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    About this audiobook

    "Bright Burning Stars is the compulsively readable story. I was breathless and battling tears up until the very last stunning turns onstage and beyond. A dazzling, heart-wrenching debut." -Nova Ren Suma, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Walls Around Us Best friends Marine Duval and Kate Sanders have trained at the Paris Opera Ballet School since childhood, where they've formed an inseparable bond forged by respective family tragedies and a fierce love for dance. When the body of a student is found in the dorms just before the start of their final year, Marine and Kate begin to ask themselves what they would do to win the ultimate prize: to be the one girl selected to join the Opera's prestigious corps de ballet. Would they die? Cheat? Seduce the most talented boy in the school, dubbed the Demigod, hoping his magic would make them shine, too? Neither girl is sure. But then Kate gets closer to the Demigod, even as Marine has begun to capture his heart. And as selection day draws near, the competition-for the prize, for the Demigod-becomes fiercer, and Marine and Kate realize they have everything to lose, including each other. In Bright Burning Stars, debut author A. K. Small pens a stunning, propulsive story about girls at their physical and emotional extremes, the gutting power of first love, and what it means to fight for your dreams.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMay 21, 2019
    ISBN9781980037804
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    • 3/5
      On one hand, this was a good, well-written book about two teenagers studying ballet. On the other hand, maybe I'm more of a well-adjusted adult than I realized, because an environment in which girls starve themselves into eating disorders, drug themselves to perform better, and relationships are determined by who dances bests strikes me as unhealthy and toxic. I realize this is also a book about mental illness and that the two narrators are likely not perceiving everything quite right, but I kept wondering why the adults were encouraging these actions and not stepping in to put a stop to some of these behaviors. To be fair, there also wouldn't be much of a plot if that happened. Overall, a good read, just know what you're getting into.
    • 2/5
      I fell in love with this cover and was eager to read this book. I love books with dance in them and thought this would offer a good glimpse into the competitiveness of ballet. However, I have never been a fan of toxic female relationships; there are few books I've read where I thought that was done successfully. Unfortunately, there was a lot of problematic issues that stemmed from Marine and Kate's friendship and not all were handled well.Bright Burning Stars touches on ballet culture, eating disorders, abortion, and toxic relationships (both friendship and romantic). It was a lot of serious topics, probably too many to tackle in one book, and I wasn't a fan of how many were handled. I wish they would have been explored in more detail and fleshed out better. I received an advanced copy from Algonquin Young Readers in return for an honest review.
    • 1/5
      I wanted to like this book but I found myself losing myself within the pages of it and not in a good way. The book started out good. In fact, I stuck with it for about the first several chapters but than the winds shifted and my interest changed. There was nothing interesting about the characters In addition, the story seemed to stall and move really slowly. The style of this book to me came off as juvenile. This may because the book is written for the young adult. After getting half way into the book, I put it down. I could not even tell you what happened previously as I fell asleep and there was nothing memorable about what I read.