Pas de Don't by Chloe AngyalRating: ✩✩✩✩✩
I absolutely loved Turning Point, so when I saw Angyal had a romance novel featuring ballet I nearly snapped my arm off in my race to hit the NetGalley request button. That was a very a good instinct and this book was exactly as amazing as I had hoped.
The insta/forbidden lust trope played out so well here and the chemistry was so well written that as a reader, you 100% believed that the love at first sight was real (even above and beyond the usual reader agreement that "Sure! In a novel? Seems legit!"). The romance was spicy without sensationalism, as in: these characters are so perfect for each other, of course there is a five alarm fire!
The added element of the ballet world, a topic on which Angyal is an expert, turned the whole plot into a delightfully insulated love story. The supporting cast of characters gets well developed and three-dimensional in part due to the short-hand of all living in this microcosm of the art world. The dances, Heather's finding of a supportive sisterhood and Marcus' physical recovery are all fantastic foils for the main narrative. The HEAs come for all the characters in many different ways, but Angyal nails the topical references to the current culture of dance.
I am hoping from the top of my head to the toes of my ballet slippers that we get more books in this series/from this author.
Published 27 April 2023 by Avon Books UK
Book #8 of 2023
1 comment:
I had not heard of this one. It sounds great. I just read a book about the ballet last week.
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