The books of Megan Abbott's that I’ve read are dark and twisty, and this one was no different. It’s a story about the very dark side of ballet and how a somewhat incestuous family of highly unusual circumstances navigates it. The first ~100 pages are a little slower as it sets up the plot, and then when it picked up, I couldn’t put it down. It is dark, weird, twisty, twisted, and a little creepy. Similar to how the movie Black Swan gave me the creeps about Swan Lake, this one did the same thing with The Nutcracker. I was hoping to develop an unnatural fear of Tchaikovsky, though, so it’s cool 😜