#booktour Instructions For Dancing by Nicola Yoon #bookreview

 



Hello and welcome back to the blog, or if you are new here; Hello and welcome to the blog. Today I have a book tour for you via TheWriteReads 



Publisher: Penguin
Length: 304 Pages
Publishing: 3rd June 2021
ISBN: 9780241516911

Blurb

#1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything and The Sun is Also a Star Nicola Yoon is back with a new and utterly unique romance.

Evie is disillusioned about love ever since her dad left her mum for another woman - she's even throwing out her beloved romance novel collection.

When she's given a copy of a book called Instructions for Dancing, and follows a note inside to a dilapidated dance studio, she discovers she has a strange and unwelcome gift. When a couple kisses in front of her, she can see their whole relationship play out - from the moment they first catch each other's eye to the last bitter moments of their break-up.

For Evie, it confirms everything she thinks she knows about love - that it doesn't last.

But at the dance studio she meets X - tall, dreadlocked, fascinating - and they start to learn to dance, together. Can X help break the spell that Evie is under? Can he change Evie's mind about love?

Praise for Nicola Yoon:

'Gorgeous and lyrical' New York Times

'Powerful, lovely, heart-wrenching' Jennifer Niven

'This extraordinary first novel about love so strong it might kill us is too good to feel like a debut' Jodi Picoult


And on to my review:

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So I read this in a day. It was a cute book. I love bookish characters as a bookish person myself. When Evie was making her list of her "former" favorite romance genres and got to the vampire part, I was like same. Mind you romance is not my go to. It was once upon a time one that I picked up more, but like Evie something tainted them for me but I grew to like them from time to time again. Enough about me, back to why you all came here. 

When the story opens we meet Evie as she is going through her books to get rid of many of her beloved romance novels because they just don't do it for her anymore. She can't escape into the anymore. Ever since her parents divorce and what she saw in her fathers office, him kissing a woman that was not her mother. Due to the library being a closed she ends up bringing them to one of those little free libraries, where like magic a older lady seems to appear out of no where. They talk about Evie's books and she convinces her to take a book of her own, as it's leave a book, take a book. So she does, the book 'Instructions for Dancing'.  When Evie turns around the lady is gone. 

This is where things start to get a little strange for Evie. She see's her sister and her newest boyfriend kissing and bam she can see how this relationship started, special moments as well as when and how the relationship will end. Evie unsure of what she as experienced kind of thinks it could be her imagination. Until not long after her sister tells her that they broke up and it was how Evie envisioned it.

So back to the book, Evie's 'Instructions for Dancing' is what the title suggests, a book on learning dances and it belongs to a dance studio that Evie has past by so many times but never noticed before. A friend of hers convinces her to bring it back to the studio and see what happens from there.

Some how Evie get's roped into dance lessons and competing, her partner is the sexy dreadlocked boy X. Who just happens to be the grandson of the dance studio's owners.  The dance teacher wants them to get to know each other more, to build a chemistry, because some dances need that sizzle. Clearly we know where this is headed as it's a romance novel.

She learns X is in a band, they work on songs together. They practice the dances, he meets her friends. They kiss.

Evie seeing future break ups, isn't a one off. After she confides in her friend they test it and when a paring kiss that seems to be when it all get's revealed. She just hopes she never sees her and X kiss. Because it seems to Evie it's always them ending in heartbreak. So why do people even bother.

Evie, in her senor year of high school is dealing with this new "power", her father, her friends, X and dancing. As well as healing or rather trying to.

Evie has some issues to work through, like realizing that love and relationships they might not always work out and sometimes the outcome can destroy you, but to never even try, to enjoy the time you have. Enjoy the journey, worry about when and where and if it ends when that time comes

Like I said it was a cute book, read it in a day. It's a quick read, the chapters are done in what that will keep you swiping/turning them. I enjoyed the text/group chat conversations. Surprisingly less dancing then I thought there would be when I first picked up the book to read. Also I think Martin is my favorite character in the bunch, with is tweed loving. Maybe Nicola Yoon can write a book for him. 

I teared up a little, won't lie.

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Let's meet our author:



Nicola Yoon is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Instructions for Dancing, Everything, Everything and The Sun Is Also a Star. She is a National Book Award finalist, a Michael L. Printz Honor Book recipient and a Coretta Scott King New Talent Award winner. Two of her novels have been made into major motion pictures. She’s also co-publisher of Joy Revolution, a Random House young adult imprint dedicated to love stories starring people of color. She grew up in Jamaica and Brooklyn, and lives in Los Angeles with her husband, the novelist David Yoon, and their daughter.

You can find her:

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