"The elite ballet school setting provides opportunities for examining race, class, and privilege, and provides a backdrop for high-stakes plotlines [...]. Gory descriptions of injuries come together with dramatic behind-the-curtains plotting to create a tense, foreboding atmosphere [...]"
--Kirkus Reviews

"Yu's intense ballet drama is as much a critique of class divisions as it is an adolescent melodrama of ambition and moral conflict, and the feints and flourishes will keep readers riveted. Present alongside other visceral stagings of elitism and entitlement, such as A. K. Small's Bright Burning Stars and Erica Ridley's The Protégée."
--Booklist

"A riveting exploration of ambition, cruelty, and desperation set against the gilded backdrop of a cutthroat ballet academy, The Devil's in the Dancers is as horrifying as it is mesmerizing."
--KELSEA YU, Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author of It's Only a Game and Bound Feet

"Decadent and sinister. It's tautly paced, delightfully messy, and cutting in its takedown of so-called meritocracy. I couldn't stop reading."
--P. H. LOW, Rhysling- and Locus-nominated author of These Deathless Shores

"This harrowing book artfully dances between themes of success, isolation, sacrifice, and family with the deft grace of a ballerina."
--AM KVITA, author of An Unlikely Coven

"The Devil's in the Dancers cracks the terrifyingly thin veneer of civility to reveal the sickening inside of those whose only desire is to maintain their status at the top."
--EDEN ROYCE, award-winning author of Root Magic and Hollow Tongue

"Alluring, addictive, and admirable--Catherine Yu's The Devil's in the Dancers is a powerful and compelling masterpiece of dancers' desperation, rivalry, and ambition."
--MADELINE DYER, editor of These Bodies Ain't Broken