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Love You, Hate You (Ballet School Confidential #1)
by
Charis Marsh (Goodreads Author)
Kaitlyn, Taylor, Alexandra, and Julian are all students at the Vancouver International Ballet Academy where ballet and drama dominate everyone's lives.
Kaitlyn was the star at her old school, but the competition at VIBA is fierce and her reputation as a prodigy is threatened. About to turn 15 years old, Taylor isa bit of a scatterbrain. She's got a lot of potential, but the...more
Kaitlyn was the star at her old school, but the competition at VIBA is fierce and her reputation as a prodigy is threatened. About to turn 15 years old, Taylor isa bit of a scatterbrain. She's got a lot of potential, but the...more
Paperback, 213 pages
Published
November 29th 2011
by Dundurn
(first published October 31st 2011)
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Hmm, an incoherent niche book for wannabe ballet stars. Although this book is really quite disorganized, there is potential in the four lead characters (Kaitlyn, Taylor, Alexandra and Julian) who are all in high school and also attending the Vancouver International Ballet Academy. The reader is taken along their individual journeys as they prepare for a Christmas performance of "The Nutcracker". However, where the books falls down is that it puts the capital "D" in Dysfunctional - dysfunctional...more
Charis Marsh's Love You, Hate You is about the dance world, so it's obviously of interest to young readers interested in dance. For the rest of us, it's entertaining and funny, and it's a deeply disturbing allegory. The young characters in this novel struggle to retain some deep sense of self in a milieu that is relentlessly exploitative. People are valued by others only in the narrowest of ways. Individual identity is reduced to the body, and the body itself is only an instrument to be exploite...more
Oct 03, 2012
Kristen
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This book had potential but ended up being a huge disappointment. I really wanted to like it but I couldn't finish it.
The novel was written by a Canadian author, set in Vancouver and involved ballet - three very solid components for me. Yet it was unorganized, had too much dialogue (and not enough plot development), and had very poorly developed, irritating characters.
The characters were in their late teens who sounded more like nine year old children (especially Taylor who is supposed to be im...more
The novel was written by a Canadian author, set in Vancouver and involved ballet - three very solid components for me. Yet it was unorganized, had too much dialogue (and not enough plot development), and had very poorly developed, irritating characters.
The characters were in their late teens who sounded more like nine year old children (especially Taylor who is supposed to be im...more
Such a weird book!! All the characters were really rude and/or annoying and at the end there was randomly a bit of romance that came from no where. I've read my fair share of dance/ballet related fiction and often one or more characters ends up bulimic or anorexic. She then ends up in the hospital or something which makes her and those around realize how serious eating disorders are, but in this novel the girl with the eating disorder was fine and it gave the impression that having an eating dis...more
I really liked this book :) It like right away brought me into the ballet peoples lives, and it was really cool and neat. Especially since you see so many different perspectives. I liked the intensity the characters had for dancing, it's cool that they're so determined.
I think this book was pretty good. It's worth to buy this book if you're a dance lover like myself. Read my whole review on word press here! http://mariazuppardi.wordpress.com/20...
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I had to DNF this one. I just couldn't get into it.
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Charis Marsh is the author of three novels published by Dundurn Press. She grew up in BC and is currently studying English at Concordia University in Montreal. She is addicted to stories, blankets, and dark chocolate.
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