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A review by punandprose
A Midnight Dance by Joanna Davidson Politano
3.0
Bought this on a whim because I found it for really cheap. The only thing I knew about it was that it was about dance in some way and that it had pretty high reviews.
I admire any author who writes a book, and this book has some lovely passages. But, sometimes a book just doesn't work for you. This one didn't for me. The descriptive dance scenes were too long, and I had no clue what was going on. I ended up skipping all those moments.
The story felt a bit underwhelming. I expected a Phantom of the Dance Ballet type story, and instead, it was rather bland and didn't feel like much happened. Also, the more the author wrote how masculine a man was when dancing ballet the more I felt the opposite as I pictured a man prancing around in tights. Eeehh, no, thank you. That's not masculine to me at all.
Then Ella was quite unremarkable. She has no standout personality or character traits or even flaws. Come to think of it, none of the characters have any personality. Everything about this book is surface level, and we never dive deeper.
Lastly, I appreciate bringing faith and God into stories when it's done right. This felt a bit overdone. It didn't feel authentic, but rather, it felt forced into moments and a bit unnatural for the setting.
Anyway, this book is well-written but maybe a little unmemorable with only surface level everything.
I admire any author who writes a book, and this book has some lovely passages. But, sometimes a book just doesn't work for you. This one didn't for me. The descriptive dance scenes were too long, and I had no clue what was going on. I ended up skipping all those moments.
The story felt a bit underwhelming. I expected a Phantom of the Dance Ballet type story, and instead, it was rather bland and didn't feel like much happened. Also, the more the author wrote how masculine a man was when dancing ballet the more I felt the opposite as I pictured a man prancing around in tights. Eeehh, no, thank you. That's not masculine to me at all.
Then Ella was quite unremarkable. She has no standout personality or character traits or even flaws. Come to think of it, none of the characters have any personality. Everything about this book is surface level, and we never dive deeper.
Lastly, I appreciate bringing faith and God into stories when it's done right. This felt a bit overdone. It didn't feel authentic, but rather, it felt forced into moments and a bit unnatural for the setting.
Anyway, this book is well-written but maybe a little unmemorable with only surface level everything.