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4.01 AVERAGE
4.01 AVERAGE
3 for most of the book buy 4⭐ by the ending. Tough emotional topics handled incredibly well for teens. I didn't like the mysticism of the book keeper because it pulled away from the other storyline but agree something needed to give Evie the visions, just would have done it differently somehow.
Cute I would love to see this one turned into a good movie.
Nope. Not going to finish this book. It's a DNF. Read 13% of it and I am not going to force myself to read this.
I was not prepared to give this book four stars. And yet here we are.
First, it took me a week to read this when it should have taken me a day or two at most. This does not have the depth of Shakespeare, after all.
And yet, I also wouldn't say it's superficial -- though I might have said that if you had asked me what I thought of the story about 180 pages in. Yes, that's how long it took for this to really get going for me. But surprisingly, get going it did. Yoon actually ended up crafting an unexpectedly insightful coming-of-age story about love and life and yes, even dancing.
Now bear with me here, because I'm about to share something particularly cringey, but also very relevant to Yoon's message here. After a painful breakup, I got a quote tattooed on my bicep that says, "Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how...We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark." The difference here, of course, is that Evie didn't have to guess -- but she still took the leap. Because that's what life, and love, are all about.
Take the leap.
Side note: That quote? It's from Agnes de Mille, an award-winning dancer and choreographer.
First, it took me a week to read this when it should have taken me a day or two at most. This does not have the depth of Shakespeare, after all.
And yet, I also wouldn't say it's superficial -- though I might have said that if you had asked me what I thought of the story about 180 pages in. Yes, that's how long it took for this to really get going for me. But surprisingly, get going it did. Yoon actually ended up crafting an unexpectedly insightful coming-of-age story about love and life and yes, even dancing.
Now bear with me here, because I'm about to share something particularly cringey, but also very relevant to Yoon's message here. After a painful breakup, I got a quote tattooed on my bicep that says, "Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how...We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark." The difference here, of course, is that Evie didn't have to guess -- but she still took the leap. Because that's what life, and love, are all about.
Take the leap.
Side note: That quote? It's from Agnes de Mille, an award-winning dancer and choreographer.
*Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an e-arc in exchange for an honest review*
I think I was expecting a super cute romance that included some personal growth within the main characters. But I was delighted to see that along with the main characters' Evie and X's love story, we also get select others that really move the story along. Evie and X were so wonderful together. I loved their dynamic with each other and how they are able to create this chemistry in such a short amount of time. I loved seeing Evie's growth from not necessarily reverting back to the version of herself that everyone else was missing, but a new version of herself that she was proud to be. I also thought it was especially interesting to see her perception of love change from how she started at the start of the novel to the end. That being said, I think I wanted more. Especially from the big twist that shows up in the novel. I felt like I read about it, we cared about it for three chapters, and we were ready to move on. I would have loved to see the inevitable third act break up a tad longer. I think what sets this novel away from others is that you can really feel their chemistry in such a raw way which in this case would be their dancing. They were able to create this tension between each other on the dance floor, it almost made me want to learn how to ballroom dance. Nicola Yoon always creates such beautiful stories, and everyone should check this one out.
I think I was expecting a super cute romance that included some personal growth within the main characters. But I was delighted to see that along with the main characters' Evie and X's love story, we also get select others that really move the story along. Evie and X were so wonderful together. I loved their dynamic with each other and how they are able to create this chemistry in such a short amount of time. I loved seeing Evie's growth from not necessarily reverting back to the version of herself that everyone else was missing, but a new version of herself that she was proud to be. I also thought it was especially interesting to see her perception of love change from how she started at the start of the novel to the end. That being said, I think I wanted more. Especially from the big twist that shows up in the novel. I felt like I read about it, we cared about it for three chapters, and we were ready to move on. I would have loved to see the inevitable third act break up a tad longer. I think what sets this novel away from others is that you can really feel their chemistry in such a raw way which in this case would be their dancing. They were able to create this tension between each other on the dance floor, it almost made me want to learn how to ballroom dance. Nicola Yoon always creates such beautiful stories, and everyone should check this one out.
I have to admit, I was skeptical when I first got into this. By the end, I was in love. I wasn’t in love with the love story. That part was good and all, but the message about time continuing on was nearly too much to handle.
I don’t cry at books, and I cried at this: “Mom said just because a thing ends doesn’t make it any less real.”
Hold onto good things because you never know how long they’re going to last.
I don’t cry at books, and I cried at this: “Mom said just because a thing ends doesn’t make it any less real.”
Hold onto good things because you never know how long they’re going to last.