Review: A cut above the usual NA jaded angst
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 14, 2014
Dovey is the product of a Russian mobster and an addict and whore who leaves her hungry and out of school.  She learns to survive in a bad neighborhood.  One days she decides to take her future in her hands and convinces the poor widow downstairs to give her a chance at ballet lessons for cleaning and help.  Two women become the constant in her life and help her get a scholarship to exclusive Briarcrest Academy and ready for an audition for a local ballet.  She has been battling the heartbreak from a week with Cuba who broke her heart, took her virginity and ruined her life all within a few weeks a year ago.  Since then he does not even look at her.  Sure he has gone through a lot of women, but none of them has he treated like dirt under his feet.  Dovey is not waiting for someday.  Somedays will kill you.  Her motto is now and staying in the moment and trying to get her life free of the bad neighborhood and a father who does not care she exists is what she lives for.  Then Cuba and the past intersect with her future.The Briarcrest series are full of the same new adult angst we find in other novels of the genre, but the author makes this series a cut above the poor little rich kids.  It is a good read.