MixedThe New York Times Book Review...delivers what its title promises: struggles and intrigues, crimes and punishments, imperial jewels and Soviet medals ... That this is a backstage view, a look through the keyhole, is both this book’s strength and limitation...The insider look in Bolshoi Confidential is incredibly rich and makes this book a page-turner; the moment it steps outside the Bolshoi, Mr. Morrison’s narrative becomes somewhat cruder and less compelling ... Some of the book’s characters, especially those cast in secondary roles, seem unrealistically flat ... its central figures, like Plisetskaya, jump off its pages complex and alive.