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A review by bookishblond
Various Positions by Martha Schabas
4.0
Fantastically well written, darkly disturbing, and very adult. Whoever shelved this book as YA must have been the same guy who wrote the synopsis inside the dust jacket. He obviously read a different book.
Like my fellow Goodreads reviewers pointed out, the synopsis is very misleading. This isn't really a ballet book and it definitely isn't a YA book. Georgia is only 14, but she is already a deeply disturbed individual. This might be connected to her home life. She is sex-crazed and it is subtly implied that society made her that way.
This book is beautifully structured and written. The author must have some kind of background in psychology. I can see why this book offended the other reviewers on Goodreads, but the author isn't saying that all 14-year-olds are sex maniacs. Instead, she's painting a gorgeous portrait of ONE individual that we, as a society, created.
Very interesting. Read it with an open mind. If you get a chance, go to your local bookstore and move all the copies of "Various Positions" from the YA section to Fiction.
Also, isn't the cover gorgeous?
Like my fellow Goodreads reviewers pointed out, the synopsis is very misleading. This isn't really a ballet book and it definitely isn't a YA book. Georgia is only 14, but she is already a deeply disturbed individual. This might be connected to her home life. She is sex-crazed and it is subtly implied that society made her that way.
This book is beautifully structured and written. The author must have some kind of background in psychology. I can see why this book offended the other reviewers on Goodreads, but the author isn't saying that all 14-year-olds are sex maniacs. Instead, she's painting a gorgeous portrait of ONE individual that we, as a society, created.
Very interesting. Read it with an open mind. If you get a chance, go to your local bookstore and move all the copies of "Various Positions" from the YA section to Fiction.
Also, isn't the cover gorgeous?