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as an explanation, I am a former professional ballerina, and books and films and other works of art depicting ballerinas at their worst (and usually depicting them as crazy psychos who would do anything for a lead role) just can’t do it for me. I think the thing that disappointed me was that I was expecting a book about ballet, but this was all about sex and emotional spirals.
The author was previously a ballerina, and her firsthand perspective of ballet lent a very realistic backdrop to her story.Hamrick: Well, my mom read the first few chapters and said, “I didn't know it was going to be THAT sexy! Yes, there was an attempt for Black Swanishness (that isn't a word but I just made it into one) but it just lacks the edge unless we count sex clubs, drugs and older men as edge.
And since the author was a long time dancer for ABT, the questions of how much is this is truly based on her experience/knowledge, and which real life people could be the base of her characters are definitely out there. Mick Jagger’s ballerina girlfriend, Melanie Hamrick, is writing an erotic novel, sources tell Page Six. And that was the fun thing about fiction, that you can make it up and it's exciting and make it more dramatic.
With a former career at the American Ballet Theatre and decades of experience as a ballerina, Melanie Hamrick was impeccably placed to use ballet as the stage for her first novel, a Mills and Boon romance. But the ballet world is unforgiving, and a devastating scandal shatters her dreams, leaving her with nothing. It took we ages to read as I felt like there were more sex than an actual story line about the world of dancing and being a ballerina.
It does seem like the book has some uplifting elements in addition to the realistic look at the industry. I can’t judge how realistic this really was, but it gave me the vibes of how it could be behind the scenes? Hamrick makes her debut with this erotic novel that pulses with Black Swan energy…Hamrick offers up a thrilling meditation on the tension between love, desire, and art by combining the artistry of The Red Shoes with the eroticism of Fifty Shades of Grey. Hamrick, 36, had plenty to look to when it came to writing about sex, drugs and ballet in her debut novel First Position (out Tuesday via Penguin Random House). Sylvie is the quintessential ballet dancer – blond, long of limbs and neck, with a honed technique admired by all.The ballet dancer appeared on This Morning on Wednesday to plug her new book and left Holly Willoughby blushing as she told viewers about the plot.
Melanie Hamrick on her steamy novel that makes 'Black Swan' seem tame Melanie Hamrick recently had to wrest a copy of her steamy new novel out of the hands of the curious 6-year-old son she shares with Mick Jagger, replacing it with the more appropriate “The Cat in the Hat. A dancer’s fall from grace ignites a dark ambition in this propulsive novel about the seductive, cutthroat world of professional ballet by debut author Melanie Hamrick. I felt that it was hard, and they didn’t really understand my need to balance being a mother and being in the studio 10 hours a day.His eldest child, a daughter named Karis, is 52 and was born from a brief relationship with actress and singer Marsha Hunt. But there is very little character development with Sylvie making the same mistakes again and again. I did enjoy the sapphic elements and wish that had been cultivated more, with the predatory male lead(s) left out. Recommended for fans of the movie Center stage or books like The ballerinas by Rachel Kapelke-Dale or The turnout by Megan Abbott. Five years in, and she has fallen from potential principal to a backup performer at best, primarily due to her dalliance with an older male star.
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