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The Flamenco Academy
Written by Sarah Bird
Narrated by Alyssa Bresnahan
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
Sarah Bird's insightful, funny novels about love have won her high praise from critics and a loyal following. Booklist says she writes with "a voice that will resonate like a fine guitar." Rae's life falls apart when her father dies of cancer and her mother joins a religious cult. The only person who understands Rae is local bad girl Didi, who is experiencing a similar loss. Both girls fall in love with handsome flamenco guitarist TomAs Montenegro, whose aunt teaches at the university's flamenco academy. Rae and Didi take the class and become obsessed with the dance. In time, their love triangle plays out on an international stage, when Rae, Didi, and TomAs becoming the rising stars of flamenco. Bird's passionate and touching story will win her many new fans. Alyssa Bresnahan's narration, as fluid as the flamenco dancing it chronicles, beautifully captures the nuances of this tale. "Bird delivers a story brimming with romance and visceral details of flamenco, its music and its history."-Publishers Weekly
Author
Sarah Bird
Sarah Bird’s novel, Above the East China Sea, was long-listed for the Dublin International Literary Award. A Dobie-Paisano Fellowship helped in researching Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen. Raised in an Air Force family on bases around the world, Sarah is the child of two warriors, a WWII Army nurse and an Air Corps bombardier, who met at a barn dance in North Africa. She lives in Austin, Texas.
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Reviews for The Flamenco Academy
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wonderful use of dance as a weapon. Couldn't feel sorry for the lover and his boo-hoo family secret. Get over yourself, dude.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is the fourth Sarah Bird novel that I've read, and I've enjoyed them all. She writes well, creating descriptions that are detailed but not boring, dialog that rings true to her characters, and plots that are not predictable but still have a way of feeling satisfyingly just right. She also achieves a pleasing mix of humor and drama, even in this novel, the most dramatic of hers that I've read. I just wish she would create a protagonist with at least a normal amount of self confidence. I found the obsessions of Rae, the main character of Flamenco Academy, almost within the realm of believability, but her inability to act for herself almost impossible to stomach. I realize that this is the conflict that drives the novel. That didn't stop me from wanting a more realistic and nuanced take on Rae and her relationship with her best friend, Didi. Perhaps it's just that the resolution, when it finally came, was too fast and left me doubting that Rae really understands or even enjoys the life that she has chosen, despite her protestations to the contrary.