Marie’s Nutcracker by Margaret Marie Klenzing
My score: 3 of 5 stars
Maria’s Nutcracker is a contemporary story across the efficiency of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. This story is ready in an American city the place Maria attends the ballet college run by her mom. As the varsity prepares for its annual Christmas efficiency of the ballet, there’s information of a movie firm coming to city to make a unique model of the identical dance.
It’s an thrilling time on the ballet college as a number of the pupils will get to be extras within the movie and the ballet studio is giving rehearsal house to the dancers. Maria and her fellow college students are allowed to coach with and watch the seasoned performers.
I appreciated the thought of this story and the opening pages have been encouraging. Bringing classical ballet to the eye of modern-day audiences and performers was fascinating to examine. There are additionally makes an attempt to speak brazenly about a number of stigmas which were related to ballet over a few years.
Sadly the writing model let this story down, I felt it wanted a superb polish, one thing that recommendation from an skilled editor might kind out.
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Ebook description:
Marie’s Nutcracker is a brand new young-adult novel by up-and-coming writer Margaret Marie Klenzing. It’s totally illustrated with nineteen unique drawings by Rori Alexander.
Marie’s Nutcracker tells the charming story of a seventeen-year-old dancer on the cusp of changing into knowledgeable ballerina. Marie is an efficient dancer, among the best in her native dance studio. But she typically feels insecure, notably round Jasmine, a self-centered prima donna who has the starring position within the yearly manufacturing of the Nutcracker. Surprisingly, a Hollywood film firm involves city to movie its personal manufacturing of the Nutcracker on the native mall. Many dance college college students, together with Marie, are employed as extras for the movie and are delighted to be solid. Throughout filming, Marie bonds with Whitney, a teenage popstar employed to sing within the movie manufacturing of the Nutcracker. As buddies, they discover a path towards reinforcing the love of their artwork.
Thrilling behind the scene motion with many new twists and turns make Marie’s Nutcracker related to at the moment’s youngsters. It’s written for normal audiences and comprises no robust language or sexual conditions. Enjoyable and pleasurable and targeted on dance.
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