A review by cass_lit
Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon

3.0

This was an unfortunate read for me personally. I loved the premise and I loved the dancing. I liked Evie, but I also got annoyed by a lot of her choices. And while you can’t normally fault a teenager in a YA for making teenager decisions, I went through a lot of the same situations she’s going through as a teenager which made it a tad difficult to read about. Especially the end — what do you mean you just choose what’s best for your sister and NOT tell her when she directly asks? You’re literally just doing exactly what your mom did to you. And maybe I’m just more stubborn (read: unhealthy, unhealed, etc.) but Evie gave in to both her dad/stepmom and her best friends ruining their senior trip far too easily for me. 

The grief in this book is a whole other ball game as well. There’s a lot of sadness that tried to be hopeful with it, but I just left feeling sad unfortunately. Maybe that’s on me. All in all, I think this book will do great things for a lot of people. It wasn’t for me, and that’s ok.