The Ballerina and the Revolutionary

Paperback, 310 pages

Published Jan. 21, 2016 by Carmilla Voiez.

ISBN:
9780993533808

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1 star (1 review)

Vivienne realizes she is dying. All she wants to do is see her daughter Giselle one last time and apologise.

But Giselle no longer exists and it is Crow, a gender-queer anarchist who returns to a family home that is plagued by ghosts and violent memories. Crow unravels terrifying secrets, hoping to find closure at last.

But can anyone survive the shadows that lurk behind the fairy tales?

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Incredibly dull despite all attempts to be otherwise.

1 star

The worst crime of this book is how exceptionally dull it is. It's taken so many topics and smashed them into one short novel, and it barely makes any sense or even tries to deal with anything.

The protagonist is aesthetically an anarchist, though most of their actions aren't characterised through any anarchic principles. They are characterised through the most common stereotypes of anarchist actions. They live in a squat (and the squat is stereotypically not taken care of, with the author at some point acting as if you should just mistreat a squat because it's monetarily free rather than do what you can to maintain it... which, from my conversations with people who've lived in squats? the latter is more common than just trashing it, especially as it helps to keep more attention off you... also it creates a realm of responsibility for the space, rather than just treating …