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    Shiny Broken Pieces: A Tiny Pretty Things Novel
    Shiny Broken Pieces: A Tiny Pretty Things Novel
    Shiny Broken Pieces: A Tiny Pretty Things Novel
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    Shiny Broken Pieces: A Tiny Pretty Things Novel

    Written by Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton

    Narrated by Laura Delano, Nora Hunter, Imani Parks and Greta Jung

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    Now a Netflix TV show! Featuring a diverse cast of characters, plenty of gossip, lies, and scandal, Shiny Broken Pieces continues with the soapy drama readers loved in Tiny Pretty Things.

    June, Bette, and Gigi are competing one final time for a spot at the prestigious American Ballet Company. With the stakes higher than ever, these girls have everything to lose…and no one is playing nice.

    June is starting to finally see herself as a prima ballerina. But being the best could mean sacrificing the love of her life. Legacy dancer Bette is determined to clear her name after she was suspended and accused of hurting her rival, Gigi. And Gigi is not going to let Bette—or the other dancers who bullied her—go unpunished.

    It all comes down to this last dance. Who will make the cut? And who will lose her dream forever?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJul 12, 2016
    ISBN9780062448545
    Author

    Sona Charaipotra

    Sona Charaipotra is the author of Symptoms of a Heartbreak and How Maya Got Fierce and coauthor of The Rumor Game and Tiny Pretty Things, now a Netflix original series. She earned a master’s degree in screenwriting from NYU and an MFA in creative writing from the New School. A working journalist, Sona has held editorial roles at People, TeenPeople, ABCNews.com, MSN, several parenting publications, the Barnes & Noble Teen Blog (RIP), and, most recently, as senior editor of trends and features at Parents.com. She has contributed to publications from the New York Times to TeenVogue. She is a former We Need Diverse Books board member, and she cofounded CAKE Literary, a boutique book packager focused on high concept diverse titles. Find her on the web talking about books, Bollywood movies, and chai. 

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    • 4/5
      Good audiobook actors! 3 person cast. Very animated for side characters as well.
    • 4/5
      This was a great follow-up to Tiny Pretty Things: lots of ballet details, lots of romantic angst, and most of all, lots of shady behavior. This is a quick and propulsive read, with chapters alternating between the perspectives of three female students in their final year at the elite (and fictitious, though based on a real ballet school in NYC) American Ballet Academy. It's a fun read, like Tiny Pretty Things, but it does have some annoying inconsistencies and things that don't really make sense, but they're not too major. The other problem is that the behavior of many of the characters is ridiculously psycho. I know this isn't trying to be realistic fiction, but still! It's great, though, that this book deals quite a bit with eating disorders and what drives them and how they affect peoples' lives.
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed this sequel more than the first book.While there’s still plenty of backstabbing and downright evilness in this one for those seeking melodrama, I felt like there was more focus on ballet than in Tiny Pretty Things. I don’t know if that’s actually the case, but it certainly seemed to me like the authors showed more of the training, the rehearsals, the auditions, etc., which really appealed to me. Ballet is the reason I picked up these books in the first place, to get a glimpse of the grueling work and dedication that goes into this beautifully difficult profession. Gigi and Bette were pushed/chose different roads than they’d been on in the first book and ultimately both characters developed more depth as the story progressed, adding more flaws to Gigi and a little less self-absorption to Bette made both of them more complex and unpredictable. As for E-Jun, her eating disorder, her drive to become a ballerina, her romance, her relationship with her mom and lack thereof with her father, and the feud with her former best friend, all of it escalated at once in emotional and compelling ways, and this may sound odd, but I liked that the ending for her story left me feeling uneasy, both cheering for her and worried, I liked that there’s hope yet at the same time the book makes no promises when it comes to her problems, that seems realistic. I don’t know if there are plans for a third book, but the endings for all the characters certainly leave open the possibility and although I still feel like there’s work to be done as far as crafting interesting male characters, the females grew enough here that I’d be eager to see where their stories go as new adults in the ballet world.
    • 3/5
      Not as good as the first one but still a satisfying conclusion.
    • 5/5
      Ballet. Diverse cast. Writing that moved like dancers. Drama filled, issue filled, but satisfying in the end. One of my faves of 2016!
    • 3/5
      So here we are again, following the vindictive and somewhat sociopathic students at the American Ballet Company. This time, in “Shiny Broken Pieces”, it’s basically senior year and the stakes are higher than ever!!! Which means that, one would think, shit is about to get real, dramatics wise! And maybe we’ll get some answers regarding what happened at the end of the previous book, “Tiny Pretty Things”. Like, who killed Gigi’s butterflies? Who put glass in her shoe? Who shoved her in front of a taxi in hopes that she would be injured for life? We get some answers to all those questions and more. But I’m sorry to say that this sequel didn’t quite live up to the amazingness of the original.But let’s start at the beginning and start with the good. Also, there are going to be spoilers for this book, because some of my issues are about certain plot points and plot twists.I really liked that in “Shiny Broken Pieces”, Charaipotra and Clayton were perfectly comfortable exploring and expanding all of their characters to make them even more well rounded and interesting. I think that it’s a pretty brave move to take favorites and lovable characters from the first book and make them more flawed and potentially unlikable in this one, if only to make the point that damaged people can do crappy things, and that doesn’t mean they’re necessarily evil. I’m talking, specifically, about Gigi. Gigi went through some terrible crap in this first book, no doubt about it. From racism thrown her way to injuries caused by others, Gigi is angry, and rightfully so. But in her anger, she starts to lose herself and starts to make the shift from damaged, to broken, and I believe there is a distinct difference. Now we are worried that she is going to turn into a monster, much like Bette was in the first book. And Bette, too, went through some serious changes through the pain that she suffered in the first one. She’s still entitled and snooty, but in this book you see her trying to find her redemption, and the strengths of her character are drawn out and put on display. These girls, the protagonist and the antagonist, get to grow and show that they are just people, and people make mistakes. But that doesn’t mean that they can’t find atonement.And the dramatics were back in this one, though the ante has been upped and it’s far more life or death for some of the characters. Now that Cassie, one of Bette’s victims from the first story, is back, things start to get especially gruesome at school. From peanut allergies being weaponized to trap doors opening unexpectedly, we do get a dose of the soapy thrills from the first book. But we also get some realistic conflict that maybe and every day teen could have to face. June, for example, is facing the potential of making a choice about her future. She wants to dance, but isn’t sure that she has what it takes to do so. Her eating disorder is running away with her, and many ballet companies won’t take on a girl who could be a liability in that way. Plus, she has her boyfriend now, who wants her to got NYU with him. June has to decide between a potentially unattainable/destructive dream, and a stable and loving but possibly unfulfilling future.But now we come to the big problem I had with “Shiny Broken Pieces”, and this is where the big spoiler guns come out. So in this book, we find out who did some of the most heinous things to Gigi in the previous book: Will is the one who pushed her in front of the car. Sei-jin is the one who put glass in her ballet shoes. And Henri, who is Cassie’s boyfriend, seduced Will and influenced him to push Gigi in the first place as part of a grand scheme to solidify Cassie’s spot as top dog when she returned to school. So, a gay character, a lesbian character, and a bi-sexual (heavily implied) character were the ones who committed the violent acts against Gigi. And they are the only representations of LGBT characters in this book. So let me say right now that as a theoretical debate, I don’t really have a problem with characters from marginalized groups being the villains in stories in general. I think that villains can be from all backgrounds and that a well rounded villainous character is a good thing in a lot of stories. I think that equity and representation can extend to antagonists as well as protagonists. HOWEVER, I think that it’s irresponsible to do this if that is the only representation of that group within the narrative. And I think that it’s irresponsible if all of the characters from a marginalized group are antagonists. So for EVERY LGBT character in this book to have done something REALLY terrible (and gosh, Henri really just kind of fit into the ‘evil and untrustworthy bisexual’ trope in all ways, looking back at it), it didn’t sit well. And yes, people like Bette, June, and Gigi also did really terrible things as the story went on as well. But at least Bette, June, and Gigi all had perspective chapters so that we could see into their motivations and into their trains of thoughts. We may have some implied moments for Will and Sei-jin, but because we don’t get their own personal sides to their stories, they definitely come off as two dimensional caricatures with very little, or no redemption. Which isn’t great. These books are awesome when it comes to portrayals of racial diversity, no doubt. But I was very frustrated with the LGBT portrayals.And finally, the audiobook might not have been the best choice for reading this book. I did it because my stack was so high, but the narrators for the three characters were pretty lackluster. There wasn’t much consistency between them and the accents they gave some characters, and none of them were particularly emphatic or lively. It felt more like they were reading a book, and I think that audiobook narrators really need to embody the book. I wonder if I would have been a bit more forgiving of some of the problems I had with this book (excluding the LGBT representation) if I had read this book in print.So overall, I think that “Shiny Broken Pieces” was a solid follow up to “Tiny Pretty Things” with a fairly satisfactory ending. But the caveats to that kind of overshadowed how good it could have been.