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The Redpoint Crux
by Morgan Shamy
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Book: The Redpoint Crux
Author: Morgan Shamy
Book Series: Standalone
Rating: 3.5/5
Recommended For...: Phantom of the Opera retelling lovers and mystery readers
Publication Date: June 9, 2020
Genre: YA Mystery
Recommended Age: 16+ (violence, death, gore, verbal abuse TW, mental health)
Publisher: The Parliament House
Pages: 290
Synopsis: When Megan Van Helsburg gets kicked off the U.S.A. Climbing Team, she has no choice but to return home and leave her climbing career behind. With no coach, no money, and no prospects, she joins the corps de ballet determined to improve her strength and agility. But the ballet theater is in dire straits. Not only do a series of murders break loose, but the ballerinas are becoming deathly thin and brain-dead. As Megan investigates, she meets Bellamy, a tortured young man who lives beneath the depths of the theater. Megan falls hard and fast for Bellamy, who becomes her mentor, but something is off about him.
It isn't until the company announces they're doing Giselle for the fall performance that Megan realizes the parallels between the ghost story and the lives around her. Megan must find a way to not only save her climbing career, but balance her feelings for Bellamy, and stop the murders and dying girls before she, too, is numbered among the dead.
Review: For the most part this was a good book. The characters were well developed and world building was well done. The book did well to discuss the sensitive topics of mental health in my opinion and the murders definitely held my intrigue.
However, I thought that there was too much telling the reader what happens instead of showing it. The book also had funky writing. Like, some of the sad moments didn’t feel sad? It was kinda weird. The book also was a bit too fast for me. I also felt like there was a lot going on for this type of book and felt like it either neither to be expanded and slowed down or broke up into other books.
Verdict: It was a good book!
Book: The Redpoint Crux
Author: Morgan Shamy
Book Series: Standalone
Rating: 3.5/5
Recommended For...: Phantom of the Opera retelling lovers and mystery readers
Publication Date: June 9, 2020
Genre: YA Mystery
Recommended Age: 16+ (violence, death, gore, verbal abuse TW, mental health)
Publisher: The Parliament House
Pages: 290
Synopsis: When Megan Van Helsburg gets kicked off the U.S.A. Climbing Team, she has no choice but to return home and leave her climbing career behind. With no coach, no money, and no prospects, she joins the corps de ballet determined to improve her strength and agility. But the ballet theater is in dire straits. Not only do a series of murders break loose, but the ballerinas are becoming deathly thin and brain-dead. As Megan investigates, she meets Bellamy, a tortured young man who lives beneath the depths of the theater. Megan falls hard and fast for Bellamy, who becomes her mentor, but something is off about him.
It isn't until the company announces they're doing Giselle for the fall performance that Megan realizes the parallels between the ghost story and the lives around her. Megan must find a way to not only save her climbing career, but balance her feelings for Bellamy, and stop the murders and dying girls before she, too, is numbered among the dead.
Review: For the most part this was a good book. The characters were well developed and world building was well done. The book did well to discuss the sensitive topics of mental health in my opinion and the murders definitely held my intrigue.
However, I thought that there was too much telling the reader what happens instead of showing it. The book also had funky writing. Like, some of the sad moments didn’t feel sad? It was kinda weird. The book also was a bit too fast for me. I also felt like there was a lot going on for this type of book and felt like it either neither to be expanded and slowed down or broke up into other books.
Verdict: It was a good book!