The Shadow Girls

Brilliant. Ballet is all about grace, beauty, and perfection—but beneath the surface, it’s a ruthless world of ambition, obsession, and secrets. Nina Laurin’s The Shadow Girls plunges readers into this cutthroat environment, blending psychological suspense with the intense pressures of elite ballet......more

The Shadow Girls is marketed as a thriller/psychological suspense. We follow Naomi, Anna, and their mothers as they prepare for the biggest ballet performance of their young careers. Anna and Naomi attend a prestigious ballet school but live very different lives. Anna comes from wealth and a mother w......more

The Shadow Girls by Nina Laurin is a psychological suspense novel that takes a hard look into the cutthroat world of ballet. Georgina Prescott was once a prima ballerina until a severe metatarsal fracture tragically ended her career. Now she fiercely manages her 16 year old daughter Anna's meteoric r......more

Thank you to NetGalley and Grand Central Publishing for providing this book, with my honest review below. The Shadow Girls appealed to my love for books about the ballet, but I got the added bonus of a mystery which was well balanced as the story alternates between past and present to explain what ha......more

Nina Laurin is an author that just sneaks up on you. All of a sudden you realize that that all of her books have been really good and she becomes a favorite! This story takes place in the ballet world, and I totally loved reading about that! This world is about as far from mine as it can get. Georgi......more