Tiny Pretty Things by Dhonielle Clayton, Sona Charaipotra

Tiny Pretty Things (Tiny Pretty Things, #1)

by Dhonielle Clayton and Sona Charaipotra

Black Swan meets Pretty Little Liars in this soapy, drama-packed novel featuring diverse characters who will do anything to be the prima at their elite ballet school. Gigi, Bette, and June, three top students at an exclusive Manhattan ballet school, have seen their fair share of drama. Free-spirited new girl Gigi just wants to dance-but the very act might kill her. Privileged New Yorker Bette's desire to escape the shadow of her ballet-star sister brings out a dangerous edge in her. And perfectionist June needs to land a lead role this year or her controlling mother will put an end to her dancing dreams forever. When every dancer is both friend and foe, the girls will sacrifice, manipulate, and backstab to be the best of the best.

Reviewed by Chelsea on

4 of 5 stars

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LIKES
- First of all, I love dance books/shows/movies so this was a great book for me.
- I loved all the dance drama. Ballerinas are vicious.
- I also loved how each character had different stuff going on but they also interacted together at some points.
- At the start I was a little annoyed with the three different POVs but I got used to it and ended up really liking it.
- There was a lot of diversity in this book! Which is great because ballet isn't a sport we see a lot of diversity in!

DISLIKES
- My only real issue here is that NOTHING WAS RESOLVED. Normally the plot has a climax and then you find out some stuff and yay you know who did stuff but that wasn't the case here which drove me crazy. I know there's another book but we don't know what even happened in this book.
- The book was a little long, it could have been cut down a bit. Mostly on June's parts because her storyline didn't feel like it fit like the other two did.
- It also bothered me that there was a lot of bullying happening and the school clearly didn't care. The only time they made a little effort was when someone got hurt.

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