Happy pub day to What’s Yours Is Mine by Jennifer Jabaley! Thank you Booksparks and Jennifer for the #gifted copy for the #summerpopup!
If emotional trauma served you up by a manipulative, domineering, and cut throat dance mom is your jam, this is the book for you. I know I had some of you at dance mom! Besties Collette and Kate are vying for entry into a prestigious and lucrative dance competition. The friendship turns ugly when Collette’s mom Elise, a former prima ballerina, decides that Kate is too much of a threat to her daughter’s career. Here’s the full summary from the publisher:
Valerie Yarnell is a hardworking single mother who’d do anything for her daughter, Kate. Kate is a dancer with dreams of stardom, just like her talented best friend, Colette. Despite Valerie’s sacrifices, it’s Colette’s mother, former prima ballerina Elise, whom Kate adores. And Colette has become like the practically perfect sister Kate never had. How can Valerie not feel frustrated, ineffectual, and a little jealous of the queen bee of dance moms? Not only has she hijacked her daughter, but Elise is married to the man Valerie pines for.
Rivalries are forming. Tension is mounting. In preparation for an elite dance competition, Kate outshines the more promising Colette onstage, and the pressure is on for Colette to keep her position in the spotlight―and especially to keep her demanding mother happy. Who could have foreseen the violent attack that sabotages everything? Anyone who’s been watching closely.
As ruthless and sinister ambitions are exposed, a media firestorm and an explosive town scandal erupt. Before it’s over, two mothers and two daughters will learn just how fierce and dangerous a rivalry can still get.
This is an over the top and tension filled dance mom behaving badly story and was so entertaining to read. The lengths Elise went to keep her daughter Collette in the spotlight were ridiculous. Kate’s mom Valerie wasn’t going to win a prize for mother of the year either. Valerie’s almost the exact opposite of obsessed Elise. Valerie is so nonchalant about Kate’s love of dance that she’s perplexed why Kate has shut her out and barely even speaks to her.
After reading this, I’m glad my daughter wanted to play basketball throughout her school career instead of dance. (And I swear I definitely wasn’t one of those crazy sports moms! π). Pick this one up if you’re looking for a besties to frenemies story, or you love dance, or you enjoy a good mom’s gone wild story. Come for all the emotional trauma and stay for the twist at the end.
Let’s play predictive text What’s yours is mine _______. What’s yours is mine and I don’t care what anyone thinks about me. π²
About the Author
Jennifer Jabaley grew up in Bridgewater, New Jersey, and when not writing teen books she’s busy being an optometrist. Jen lives in Blue Ridge, Georgia. Lipstick Apology was her first novel.
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