Pointe of Pride
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4.3 • 3 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Carly Montgomery has only one goal as she arrives in Sydney, Australia: Be the world's best maid of honor. And then, when she gets back to New York City, she's going to figure out how to get promoted so she doesn't spend the rest of her ballet career in the corps de ballet playing Peasant Maiden #4.
But the second she steps off the plane, she runs into trouble—and into Nick Jacobs, the most uptight, judgmental, inconveniently attractive man she's ever met. And to their mutual horror, Nick is also in Sydney for a wedding. The same wedding. In which he is the best man.
Carly will do anything for her best friend, including running all over Sydney with Nick—Nick who has his life together, Nick who's made the transition out of ballet into photography so perfectly, Nick who has the most irritatingly sharp cheekbones and stormy blue eyes. And when the director of New York Ballet announces that she'll be making her decision about promotions ahead of schedule, Carly chooses to stay in Sydney, even if it means shelving her pride to ask Nick for help.
Nick Jacobs is coming back to Sydney with a secret. His life in Paris, where he recently retired from ballet, has fallen apart. With no girlfriend and no new career to speak of, Nick can't bear to tell his friends at home the humiliating truth. And after fifteen years dancing overseas, what does home even mean anymore?
Nick doesn't want to team up with Carly Montgomery, a human hurricane who creates chaos every time she walks in the room, but sparring with her makes him feel the most alive he's felt in months. When she asks him for help securing her promotion, he sees an opportunity to kickstart his own flagging career. Looking at Carly through his lens all day starts to change how Nick sees her, and soon, he can't stop staring. Carly's a human hand grenade, but suddenly Nick wouldn't mind pulling the pin.
When she finds out the truth about him, though, the explosion might destroy them both.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Angyal turns to the enemies-to-lovers trope in her adorable second ballet romance (after Pas de Don't). New York Ballet corps de ballet dancer Carly Montgomery's trip to Sydney, Australia, to be maid of honor for her best friend, Heather Hays, gets off to a rough start when she accidentally runs a man over with her airport luggage cart—and he's so rude about it! Things get worse when she's later introduced to him as the groom's best man, Nick Jacobs. The pair agree to keep their mutual ire under wraps for their friends' sakes and play nice as they attend to various wedding tasks. They grow closer when Nick, a professional dance photographer and former premier dancer, agrees to Carly's request to photograph her for social media as part of her campaign to be promoted to soloist. Nick and Carly traverse Sydney's one-of-a-kind beaches taking striking shots that cause her social media following to skyrocket—and along the way their enmity transforms into intense attraction. But when Carly learns that Nick overplayed his success as a photographer, their whirlwind romance may be at an end. Angyal's intimate familiarity with the ballet world shines through and it's easy to cheer on her flawed, three-dimensional characters. This is a page-turner.
Customer Reviews
Great enemies to lovers in modern setting
Where do I begin? I was obsessed with this book! The chemistry between Carly and Nick is evident from the beginning. Carly’s friendship with her best friend Heather is super supportive and as someone who didn’t read the first book in this series (yet) I still found it easy to get into.
One of the things that’s stands out in this is the way Angyal deals with Carly’s medical issues and I absolutely loved the representation for women with pelvic floor pain and it made the book feel so much more real.
Another thing I loved is how descriptive it was because I really felt like I could see it in my head like a movie. I know nothing about ballet or photography but you feel excited with the characters because you can feel the passion through the pages.
Overall if you like subtle enemies to lovers vibes, fiery redheads and swoony MMCs you’ll really enjoy this book.