So, to start off, I seriously love Nicola Yoon’s writing. She has beautiful prose and her dialogue is so effortless that I find myself reading the book like I’m watching a movie. Not to mention her characters are just so realistic. I ended up loving them all—except her dad, don’t get me started on that—especially FiFi, the dance instructor.

The plot all tied together very well, and it was very fairytale-esque in the beginning and more contemporary further in the book. The romance parts were cutesy but never butterflies-in-my-stomach type. What my favorite was, though, is that it was so wholesome. Adult content was obviously mentioned but never explicitly, so the book continued to be PG rated in my opinion.

Spoilers ahead.

Now with the spoilers. I’m not sure if I know what I should say about the ending. I think it was poetic, yet surprisingly unexpected. However, I do think that the ending was necessary to follow through with the themes and issues of the novel. I think Evie’s aversion to love was only able to be solved by her accepting the risks involved with giving someone all of you. That includes unexpected deaths.

I’ve also seen a lot of people ask why she never did anything to help X, but it was even mentioned in the novel that she had no idea what he died from. All she saw was his obituary. So, I think that she just didn’t know what he was going to go through, so therefore, she couldn’t help him. I think her accepting the risks of love, knowing that one day she would lose it, is a more powerful lesson that it would have been had she just accepted X for who he was and the future that they held together.

Overall, I was genuinely impressed with this novel, and I loved it a lot. I think the light-heartedness of the tone, but the heaviness of the themes gave it a good balance in terms of light reading. Nicola Yoon gave us another beautiful novel to put on our shelves and keep in our hearts.

Source: Audiobook from Audible