Orginally posted at The Wandering Fangirl.

Bunheads is a surprisingly slow, calm story. We follow the life of Hannah, a dancer in the prestigious Manhattan Ballet Company and all that entails. For a novel about ballet dancers, it's obvious Sophie Flack knows what she's talking about with all the little details, the emotional highs and lows, the pressure and ambition. Thing start to falter a little when it turns out that the entire novel is based around Hannah's growing realization that there might be more to life outside the ballet. It's a decent character growth novel, but ultimately, Hannah didn't seem to be a strong enough character for that to be all it is.