Shiny Broken Pieces: A Tiny Pretty Things Novel

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4.5
6 reviews
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384
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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?

Ratings and reviews

4.5
6 reviews
Ritu Nair
July 16, 2016
Tiny Pretty Things was a pit of toxicity and backstabbing, a depressing look into the world of professional ballet, Shiny Broken Pieces focuses on the aftermath of the events of TPT. Their world is shaken by the acts of violence, the threat of bodily harm that moved past beyond regular bullying. The girls who were victims are now becoming aggressors, and the bullies are learning from their mistakes and trying to move on. Focusing on the three protagonists once again, the story takes a brighter turn in this installment. Bette, suspended but not quitting, is out to prove that she wasn’t the one who pushed Gigi; she is also aiming for her future as a principal ballerina at the ABC. June, meanwhile, though now happy with the boyfriend Jayhe, is not out of the woods yet with her lingering bulimic problems, and she starts to reassess what her love for ballet really means to her. She still has her tormenter, Sei-Jin around to give her a hard time, though she lets less of it get to herself now. Gigi, on the other hand, has turned bitter from the events and slightly paranoid and mean. She initially starts to bully the girls who tormented her, but later rises above it. Cassie is however, around, as the proverbial devil on her shoulder, whispering nasty plans. I get that Cassie was bullied, but something about her made me feel she wasn’t always all innocent like Gigi; case in point, her mistreatment of June. While the bullying and sabotaging are still an inherent part of the plotline, the fact that these girls are now in their senior year and looking forward to their future prospects, makes for a simultaneous relief and stressor for them. The guys don’t have all the pressures they have, and all the girls, too, don’t have equal opportunities. There is always a case of casual racism surrounding the air, and also how their bodies are. June, despite being petite and nearly on the side of anorexia, is chastised by her ballet instructor for having an inch of fat. Bette, though being on the outside and seeing what regular bodies look like, falls into the same pattern of desiring that willowy figurine silhouette desired of dancers. Gigi is subtly put down for her skin color. It makes for a heartbreaking story when you realize how body image affects these young impressionable young girls and though this was covered extensively in the previous book, I like that it was not forgotten in the sequel. Overall, the book is a well-written story about passion and drive, and obsession and desperation.
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A Google user
December 18, 2017
This is pt 2 of tiny pretty things Its also amazing and luv it!!
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About the author

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.

Dhonielle Clayton is the New York Times bestselling author of the Belles series and The Marvellers and the coauthor of The Rumor Game and the Tiny Pretty Things duology, which was made into a Netflix original series. She is COO of the nonprofit We Need Diverse Books and the owner of Cake Creative.

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