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BREAKING POINTE
622 pages, Paperback
Published May 17, 2025
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May 31, 2025
WARNING: SOME SPOILERS
“Breaking Pointe” is a fan-written retelling of The Next Step and Lost & Found Music Studios for an older audience, and as someone who was very active in the fandom as a pre-teen, I have THOUGHTS
First of all, the author began this on Wattpad at fourteen five years ago so I respect the effort she has put into this book. Despite not being an objectively good piece of literature, there was some good writing, and I devoured this.
However, probably the biggest issue with this book is the amount of typos and grammar errors. Having been five years in the making, I assumed there would have been quite a few proof-reads but, either there weren’t, or they were very rushed.
The author has stated on TikTok that she changed the names of some characters, but really, she has just changed the spellings. Riley became Rhylee, Emily became Emilee, and Rachel became Rachelle. The only name that was actually changed was Leia became Leah, which is a very tiny change.
I understand this is a retelling, but the actions of a lot of these characters are completely out of character. Rhylee dating Luke? Luke being a coke addict? James and Luke both being a nasty piece of work? Kate and Mr. T.? If Kate is going to have had a teenaged situationship with anyone, it’d be Lucien. Noah is about thirteen and also a drug dealer? James has a massive “nice guy” complex.
There are 30+ pages of just “I hated it. I hated it. I hated it.” over and over again, and 9+ pages of “No. No. No. No. No. No” repeatedly.
John and Michelle’s storyline being completely in John’s head yet James saw Michelle in John’s van is giving the infamous Margie disappearing into thin air plot in The Next Step.
Some of the plot points were too soap opera-esque for my liking – Luke dying, Mr. T. dying, and John becoming an arsonist were all a bit high stakes for a fan-fiction of 2010s kids show.
While I’m not sure how this wasn’t flagged as being a breach of Intellectual Property law, and I can’t sit here and say that this was “good” in a literary sense, and it’s definitely evident that it is a Wattpad fan fiction, I ate this up, so I have to give it credit for at least being entertaining.
“Breaking Pointe” is a fan-written retelling of The Next Step and Lost & Found Music Studios for an older audience, and as someone who was very active in the fandom as a pre-teen, I have THOUGHTS
First of all, the author began this on Wattpad at fourteen five years ago so I respect the effort she has put into this book. Despite not being an objectively good piece of literature, there was some good writing, and I devoured this.
However, probably the biggest issue with this book is the amount of typos and grammar errors. Having been five years in the making, I assumed there would have been quite a few proof-reads but, either there weren’t, or they were very rushed.
The author has stated on TikTok that she changed the names of some characters, but really, she has just changed the spellings. Riley became Rhylee, Emily became Emilee, and Rachel became Rachelle. The only name that was actually changed was Leia became Leah, which is a very tiny change.
I understand this is a retelling, but the actions of a lot of these characters are completely out of character. Rhylee dating Luke? Luke being a coke addict? James and Luke both being a nasty piece of work? Kate and Mr. T.? If Kate is going to have had a teenaged situationship with anyone, it’d be Lucien. Noah is about thirteen and also a drug dealer? James has a massive “nice guy” complex.
There are 30+ pages of just “I hated it. I hated it. I hated it.” over and over again, and 9+ pages of “No. No. No. No. No. No” repeatedly.
John and Michelle’s storyline being completely in John’s head yet James saw Michelle in John’s van is giving the infamous Margie disappearing into thin air plot in The Next Step.
Some of the plot points were too soap opera-esque for my liking – Luke dying, Mr. T. dying, and John becoming an arsonist were all a bit high stakes for a fan-fiction of 2010s kids show.
While I’m not sure how this wasn’t flagged as being a breach of Intellectual Property law, and I can’t sit here and say that this was “good” in a literary sense, and it’s definitely evident that it is a Wattpad fan fiction, I ate this up, so I have to give it credit for at least being entertaining.
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