Title: The Midnight Dance
Author: Nikki Katz
Publisher: Swoon Reads
Release Date: October 17th 2017
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Synopsis: When the music stops, the dance begins.
Seventeen-year-old Penny is a lead dancer at the Grande Teatro, a finishing school where she and eleven other young women are training to become the finest ballerinas in Italy. Tucked deep into the woods, the school is overseen by the mysterious and handsome young Master who keeps the girls ensconced in the estate – and in the only life Penny has never known.
But when flashes of memories, memories of a life very different from the one she thinks she’s been leading, start to appear, Penny begins to question the Grand Teatro and the motivations of the Master. With a kind and attractive kitchen boy, Cricket, at her side, Penny vows to escape the confines of her school and the strict rules that dictate every step she takes. But at every turn, the Master finds a way to stop her, and Penny must find a way to escape the school and uncover the secrets of her past before it’s too late.
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My Thoughts
This book jumps right into the action. I definitely found myself flipping through the pages, curious how everything would turn out and what had happened to make Penny go to this school, but because it started so fast, I didn’t find myself understanding a lot and had more questions than answers. Penelope is a dancer at a ballet school ran by the mysterious Master. As she spends her days dancing with the other girls, she starts to notice some gaps in her memories and irregularities. She starts to investigate the school and her past with the help of Cricket, the kitchen boy. But as she delves deeper, she finds herself not in control of her own thoughts and needs to break away from the manipulations of the puppet master in charge of it all. Read More »
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