Bright Burning Stars

Name: Bright Burning Stars
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: A.K. Small
ISBN: 9781980037804

Author: A.K. Small

Narrator: Nicole Wood, Saskia Maarleveld

Unabridged: 7 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/21/2019

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Performing Arts, Romance, Contemporary Romance, Social Themes

Synopsis

"Bright Burning Stars is the compulsively readable story. I was breathless and battling tears up until the very last stunning turns onstage and beyond. A dazzling, heart-wrenching debut." -Nova Ren Suma, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Walls Around Us Best friends Marine Duval and Kate Sanders have trained at the Paris Opera Ballet School since childhood, where they've formed an inseparable bond forged by respective family tragedies and a fierce love for dance. When the body of a student is found in the dorms just before the start of their final year, Marine and Kate begin to ask themselves what they would do to win the ultimate prize: to be the one girl selected to join the Opera's prestigious corps de ballet. Would they die? Cheat? Seduce the most talented boy in the school, dubbed the Demigod, hoping his magic would make them shine, too? Neither girl is sure. But then Kate gets closer to the Demigod, even as Marine has begun to capture his heart. And as selection day draws near, the competition-for the prize, for the Demigod-becomes fiercer, and Marine and Kate realize they have everything to lose, including each other. In Bright Burning Stars, debut author A. K. Small pens a stunning, propulsive story about girls at their physical and emotional extremes, the gutting power of first love, and what it means to fight for your dreams.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer ~ TarHeelReader on May 15, 2019

Marine and Kate have attended the Paris Opera Ballet School since they were tiny. The two are the best of friends and have bonded over tragedy and dance. Just before their final year of school, a student is found murdered. This makes the girls question how far they would go to win. Winning means bei......more

Goodreads review by Amy on May 21, 2019

3.5 stars Happy Pub Day! Bright Burning Stars is compelling, feverish, and claustrophobically competitive—but its trigger warnings and character arcs were hard for me. This is the case of a story that was written well, described well, and covered a unique place setting in YA....but ultimately did not......more

Goodreads review by Renata on July 22, 2019

ok. ok. I love a dance movie/book, so when I skimmed the description on NetGalley, my brain understood "French ballet boarding school" and downloaded it immediately. This was...fine. I liked the ballet stuff, though there's not much here that's groundbreaking if you've ever seen/read any other dance......more

Goodreads review by Howard on April 29, 2020

4 Stars for Bright Burning Stars (audiobook) by A. K. Small read by Saskia Maarleveld. This was a great story. Ballet school in France — what’s not to like? I might be biased but I love ballet. I enjoy any chance I get to see what it’s like in that world. The narration was good too.......more

Goodreads review by Ashlee » libraryinthecountry on May 18, 2019

View blog tour post on my blog Library in the Country Bright Burning Stars is a tumultuous, dramatic and frenzied read that shows the dark side of a competitive ballet school, in the vein of Black Swan. Best friends Marine and Kate would do almost anything to win the coveted Prize … to become one of t......more