Bunheads is the first book written by a former ballet dancer, Sophie Flack. It seemed intriguing when I first pulled it off the shelf--but then failed to be so.
Like so many other stories about ballet dancers in a company, this story follows a moderately good/great potential dancer called Hannah Ward, who is in the corps. Of course, all the members of the corps are just strange: diets, dysfunctional families, ridiculous workout regimes, the whole kit and caboodle. Then Hannah meets a non-dancer who goes to NYU, and begins to see the life she doesn't seem to have. She begins dating him on and off, and finally makes a decision about whether to stay in the company or begin a normal life.
The characters were flat, and the fact that this story is told in the present tense didn't help much. I quickly ceased to care for Hannah, and instead ended up liking one of the older corps dancers, who's actually normal, despite her yoga obsession, best instead. The status of this book is not recommended.
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