As a child, I took ballet for several years. I am pretty sure my parents were trying to find some way to make me graceful…oh well. I do enjoy stories and films about ballet and ballerinas, and love watching dancers perform well. In any case, the premise of Rachel Kapelke-Dale’s The Ballerinas sounded like just the thing: a story about ballet, friendship — and a thriller type of mystery for good measure! 

Unfortunately, I didn’t come to care about any of the characters. And it wasn’t really a thriller. So I am grateful to St. Martin’s Press and NetGalley for an advance copy of this title in exchange for my honest review, and totally admit this may just not be for me — or possibly I was having a bad week? Seriously, pandemic and threats to democracy have brought me down…but I am a fairly easy grader so I am giving it three stars and will recommend it to people who I think will appreciate it.