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littlepepperguy 's review for:
Instructions for Dancing
by Nicola Yoon
coming from One of Our Kind this tonal shift was so jarring. I loved One of Our Kind and kinda hate this.
The magical realism didn't feel like it fit in this world. Everything else is so grounded in reality and then all of a sudden there is an old women who curses teenager with the power to see the entire story of love between couples when they kiss. Like wtf are you talking about? It's never explained, it's kind of freaky fridayed in there. And then the FMC just decides to not have the power anymore at the end like what?
I didn't like how fast the romance felt, the novel should have been twice as long in my opinion to really build up the relationship brick by brick rather than the book version of a movie montage at least 3 different times in a 250 pg novel.
Also idk why it's so sympathetic towards the cheating ass dad who blew up his family and life to get married to his mistress less than a year later. Like I would never forgive that sack of shit. And why does the FMC refuse to tell her younger sister that, it feels like a betrayal that the sister isn't allowed to know who her dad really is and make informed decisions about his presence in her life.
Idk I just really did not vibe with this anti-romance romance.
The magical realism didn't feel like it fit in this world. Everything else is so grounded in reality and then all of a sudden there is an old women who curses teenager with the power to see the entire story of love between couples when they kiss. Like wtf are you talking about? It's never explained, it's kind of freaky fridayed in there. And then the FMC just decides to not have the power anymore at the end like what?
I didn't like how fast the romance felt, the novel should have been twice as long in my opinion to really build up the relationship brick by brick rather than the book version of a movie montage at least 3 different times in a 250 pg novel.
Also idk why it's so sympathetic towards the cheating ass dad who blew up his family and life to get married to his mistress less than a year later. Like I would never forgive that sack of shit. And why does the FMC refuse to tell her younger sister that, it feels like a betrayal that the sister isn't allowed to know who her dad really is and make informed decisions about his presence in her life.
Idk I just really did not vibe with this anti-romance romance.