A review by liralen
Leaping at Shadows by Megan Atwood

2.0

Eh. Girl of undetermined age from an undetermined part of an undetermined country (for what it's worth, she reads as about twelve or thirteen and the setting is presumably Canada or the US) goes off to a highly prestigious dance school that...does nothing to prove that it deserves that prestige, basically. The focus of the story isn't dance, though—it's a mystery (something about ghosts or a cult or both; it's not fleshed out well enough for me to understand). There's not really enough space for the characters to develop much or the mystery to be fully explained (and the entire book takes place over what, less than a week?). I suppose the author wanted to leave space to explore the 'haunted' aspect in future books, but it just didn't do much for me.