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Instructions for Dancing
by Nicola Yoon
Evie is stronger than me.
I will not excuse the execution, which started to fail towards the end, but I really appreciate what this book tries to promote. Reading this, I kept thinking "How is it going to resolve itself?" and I like that it did not use magic to make everything make sense.
Evie, by all accounts, was a tragic character. She had to go through her dad's cheating and divorce and having to see so many people's love endings. My heart went to her so many times and for me it even made little sense how easily she fell for X with barely thinking all that she knows.
But Evie grows and goes back and forth in a relatable way, though in some ways I wanted more deep exploration into some situations that were complicated. Towards the end, we get a more human look to everyone and that is when you understand that life is life and you have to move along with it.
Yet, there is still this power. How can you trust again if everywhere you look, you see the end? The main focus of the book was to look jnto the now, if you are enjoying yourself now or if you enjoyed yourself in the past, does this disappear when it is all gone?
No. But if you can see the end, can you truly commit yourself? Can you truly give yourself away to something with guaranteed ending date? I don't think I can and I don't think the book handled it as good as much as I would like, but I envy people that could really relate to this book.
I did not talk much about the characters and stories, but somehow I feel it is not needed as the core of the book lied elsewhere. But I will say that most characters were very realistic one way or another, even if the plot of the book is just too random to hold out.
I will not excuse the execution, which started to fail towards the end, but I really appreciate what this book tries to promote. Reading this, I kept thinking "How is it going to resolve itself?" and I like that it did not use magic to make everything make sense.
Evie, by all accounts, was a tragic character. She had to go through her dad's cheating and divorce and having to see so many people's love endings. My heart went to her so many times and for me it even made little sense how easily she fell for X with barely thinking all that she knows.
But Evie grows and goes back and forth in a relatable way, though in some ways I wanted more deep exploration into some situations that were complicated. Towards the end, we get a more human look to everyone and that is when you understand that life is life and you have to move along with it.
Yet, there is still this power. How can you trust again if everywhere you look, you see the end? The main focus of the book was to look jnto the now, if you are enjoying yourself now or if you enjoyed yourself in the past, does this disappear when it is all gone?
No. But if you can see the end, can you truly commit yourself? Can you truly give yourself away to something with guaranteed ending date? I don't think I can and I don't think the book handled it as good as much as I would like, but I envy people that could really relate to this book.
I did not talk much about the characters and stories, but somehow I feel it is not needed as the core of the book lied elsewhere. But I will say that most characters were very realistic one way or another, even if the plot of the book is just too random to hold out.