New Review! Another Sky by Jayne Frost

Another Sky by Jayne Frost
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

4.5 Cranky Stars


Ok stop me if you heard of this troupe. It’s about a down on her luck ballerina with dreams of New York and a rocker with a tortured tragic past. That is what Another Sky is but the way Jayne Frost weaves words it is so much more. More in depth more heart and more aww moments. I couldn’t put it down and it makes me want to jump into her Sixth Street series that everyone raves about.


Gelsey is a ballerina. Her mother was a prima ballerina with an amazing career and her grandmother taught the best dancers around. This is life but sadly it’s not all pirouettes and lifts. Her father has bailed because things got too hard when her mother got ill. She feels abandoned and is struggling to make that New York dream a reality. When she is presented with the opportunity to be an apprentice dancer with the best troupe in NYC she starts to scramble. Down on her luck and needing money fast accepts a job from Miles Cooper that her best friend set her up with to teach him the water aerobics she must do as well. Ballerinas have a short self life and Gelsey’s is even shorter.Their relationship is tentative at best with Miles wanting to help her yet keep her at a distance and her knowing her time in Austin is limited.


Miles Cooper has suffered so much in his life. Death upon death has been a part of his life. High on his success and touring with his best friends and his best girl when a bus accident shatters his leg and hips and the tentative hold he has on his mental health. Life gets very rough and he finds himself in a mental health facility. He doesn’t want to taint anyone with his darkness, so he hides in his mansion and just exists until he bumps into Gelsey and she challenges him back. He starts to think of ways to see her and when the opportunity to offer her a job and even his pool house does, he start to come back to life. Life is still bleak and the darkness still lurks in the corner of his mind but he can’t help but be drawn to the warmth that she radiates.


I really loved that while I’ve read stories with this similar story line this was so deeper. You could see the struggle that Miles endured. That dark voice in our head isn’t fun and its full of self-sabotage. I liked that it took Miles to reach the I am enough phase of his journey and admit being in love and having a mental illness doesn’t mean you have to go it alone. Gelsey was very pragmatic about her illness she knew her years were dwindling and she grabbed the opportunity by the horns. This book isn’t all doom and gloom it’s full of hope and some sexy times. Seriously Gelsey and Miles are adorable and I’m glad I got to read this book!!


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