Title: Dancergirl (Wihi #1)
Author: Carol M. Tanzman
Published: November 15, 2011
My Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Goodreads Summary:
Ever feel like
someone's watching you? Me, too. But lately it's been happening in my room.
When I'm alone.
A friend posted a
video of me dancing online, and now I'm no longer Alicia Ruffino. I'm dancergirl.
And suddenly it's like me against the world.— everyone's got opinions.
My admirers want
more, the haters hate, my best friend Jacy, even he's acting weird. And some
stalker isn't content to just watch anymore.
Ali. Dancergirl.
Whatever you know me as, however you've seen me online, I've trained my whole
life to be the best dancer I can be. But if someone watching has their way, I
could lose way more than just my love of dancing. I could lose my life.
My Thoughts:
I have to
admit that I was a little hesitant in going into this one, I am a big baby and
I am freaked out by scary realistic things like a stalker, but I wanted to give
this one a try and read something a little bit out of my comfort zone and try
something new. I am really glad that I did because although the idea of a
stalker scares me to death, I didn't have as hard of a time reading this book
as I thought that I would and I enjoyed most of it a lot.
We first
meet our main character Alicia Ruffino or Ali as everyone calls her and her
best friend Jacy, Ali is a dancer, and I a good one at that (or at least that
was the feeling that I got) She is just a normal teenager, going to school and
dance classes and living her life. One of her friends Charlie takes a video of
a concert that they all had went to and see's Ali dancing with her friends and
comes up with an idea. He wants to make videos of Ali dancing but, he wants it
to seem like he is doing it secretly and that she doesn't know she is being
videotaped. Ali agrees thinking it might just be some fun little thing to do.
Charlie posts the video on "Zube" and comes up with a screen name for
himself Shyboy and calling Ali Dancergirl. The idea is that he is Shyboy and
has a crush on Dancergirl who doesn't even know he exists. The video's become
super popular and even go viral on the site with Charlie convincing Ali to do a
few more. As more videos are done Ali becomes somewhat of a star and famous.
Nobody else but Ali and her close friends know that the videos aren't real.
Everywhere she goes people are talking about her, looking at her like they know
her secrets. It was all just a fun idea until Ali finds out she has a stalker
and the posting videos on the internet takes a dark turn.
I really
loved Ali's character, her love for dance is portrayed beautifully by Tanzman
throughout the book. I could really feel what Ali felt when she dances and I
could picture in my head what she looked like while she was doing it. Tanzman
weaves words together so beautifully to give the reader a beautiful picture in
their mind of Ali. I enjoyed learning about all of Ali's friends who were
interesting and going thorough different things in their own rights and I liked
that we learned a little about each of them, something you wouldn't know by
just looking at a person. The idea of a stalker because of these video's was
such an interesting idea for me, I like that it was something that I could
understand actually happening and not a far fetch not possible idea. This
really could happen to anyone who did something similar. The only disappoints for
me was the ending. I don't know what I was expecting at the end, it was
predictable but, I don't know how else it could have been done. I liked that
the whole entire book was not completely focused on the idea that she had a
stalker, there was other events going on that kept your interest and kept the
book from feeling like it was dragging the idea of a stalker out for too long.
If you enjoy
a contemporary book with a bit of thrills and suspense, then this one is for
you. Not overly scary this book does remind me of why sometimes having
everything out on the internet for the world to see might not always be such a
good thing.
Happy
Reading!
Kristin
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