2 Stars
Publisher: MacMillan Children’s Publishing Group, Swoon Reads
Date of publication: October 17th, 2017
Genre: Young Adult, Steampunk
Number of pages: 320
POV: Alternating between 1st and 3rd person
Where you can find The Midnight Dance: Barnes and Noble | Amazon
Book synopsis (from Goodreads):
When the music stops, the dance begins.
Seventeen-year-old Penny is a lead dancer at the Grande Teatro, a finishing school where she and eleven other young women are training to become the finest ballerinas in Italy. Tucked deep into the woods, the school is overseen by the mysterious and handsome young Master who keeps the girls ensconced in the estate – and in the only life Penny has never known.
But when flashes of memories, memories of a life very different from the one she thinks she’s been leading, start to appear, Penny begins to question the Grand Teatro and the motivations of the Master. With a kind and attractive kitchen boy, Cricket, at her side, Penny vows to escape the confines of her school and the strict rules that dictate every step she takes. But at every turn, the Master finds a way to stop her, and Penny must find a way to escape the school and uncover the secrets of her past before it’s too late.
Trigger Warning: None