okay??? i read this because i kind of enjoyed lola keeley's other book but i don't think I'll read anything else from her. this is a sapphic romance between a new ballerina and the head of the new york ballet and tbh i think i would have preferred if it was not a romance and instead was these two characters becoming closer in a mentor/mentee relationship. it's not that I'm against age gap romances (in fiction) but this one being in the work place and the fact that the older one (forgot both of their names already, i think one might be called grace and the other one is called clare or morgan or something i think) kept randomly promoting the main girl just so so strange? made it seem like the main girl wasn't really earning anything in my eyes even though the older one wasn't just giving her the good roles or whatever because she had a crush. like I'm serious it was really distracting. not too sure how much anyone knows about ballet but the main girl (we're gonna call her grace) becomes prima/gets the lead role after only just joining the company?? and everyone is rightly angry?? and assume they're sleeping together?? which they are?? i think this would have been a really impactful story for me if it was just about grace making it big in nyc and dealing with all the same problems but it's not negatively coloured for me by this boss/employee romance. I'm literally such a sucker for found family/accidental mentor/mentee relationships. so yeah not a terrible book but nothing I'll ever pick up again. also side note that makes the book get less points is that a hermès scarf is mentioned in the book and the audiobook narrator pronounced it the same way that you would pronounce hermes the god. very off-putting 2.5 stars