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Dancergirl (2011)

by Carol M. Tanzman(Favorite Author)

3.59 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

037321040X (ISBN13: 9780373210404)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Harlequin Teen

series

WiHi

review 1: A video of her was posted online of her dancing, thats when she starts to feel like she's always being watched. Ali has a passion for dancing, she has danced for most of her life and know works at the dance school for free lessons. When her friends catch her dancing at the concert in the park, they start to film.They put it on the internet and her video goes viral, she was know known as 'Dancergirl'. She feels like shes being watched everywhere, even when she's alone in her bedroom. Videos start going up without her knowing she's been filmed. A stalker has video taped her in her own room, then posted it online. This book was great and i loved it. It also shows what can happen if you aren't careful of what you put on the internet. It has a very surprising ending which made... more me not want to stop reading until I finished the book completely. The mystery to who her stalker is keeps you interested throughout the book.
review 2: The book had an interesting premise to it. Good girl ballerina parties with her friends, one of which tapes her dancing and puts it on the internet. Totally harmless, and totally innocent. Until some creep puts his own camera in her bedroom window and tapes her dancing around in her underwear. Cue the girl and her friend trying to crack the case of who is doing this, and why. Cue the paranoia, the distrust of all strangers (and even some acquaintances). Enough paranoia to affect this poor girl's dancing career.The book was in no way bad, but it also wasn't great. It was very much a book about a stalker, and it thoroughly creeped me. I mean, this is something that could, in theory, happen to anyone. The whole time I was reading the book my subconscious was screaming, "REMEMBER OPRAH? SHE SAID PEOPLE HIDE CAMERAS IN MIRRORS!". For years after that episode I refused to get dressed or do anything remotely embarrassing in front of mirrors. That fear turned into, "Wait, what if there are cameras in the vents?!". I was like those old men constantly looking over their shoulders for communists. I grew out of the fear, of course (for the most part, anyway) until recently when my teacher told me that there was a software you could buy to tap into strangers webcams while they're on the computer. The worst part, your webcam light wouldn't even come on. How creepy, right?! Needless to say, this book brought back all of those crazy fears, and so I really connected with the main character, but only with that. Her obsessive need to be a great dancer was understandable, and luckily it didn't take over the story. In fact, it might have even added to it.Beware, spoilers ahead. DUN DUN DUN.The book was in no way predictable, which I love. There were several times that I thought the person taping her was her dancing instructor's weird boyfriend, of the first friend that taped her dancing, and with every doubt that the main character had, I felt it too. When she started looking for help in a former police officer that lived her neighborhood her whole life, I didn't suspect him for a second. He seemed quite helpful, and sincere, and well.... he was a former cop. So when it turned out that it was him, in fact, stalking the girl, I was shocked. The whole confrontation at the end was well done as well. end spoilers>Overall the the book was good. It was a very quick read, which worked out well, because if there was any more to the story it would have become a bit too much. Solid three stars for me. less

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