Dancers Quitters and Garden Gnomes eBook Emily Evans
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Fun young adult romance novel.
Game of gnomes….who’s taking Grandma’s gnomes?
Why is the hottest guy in school such a jerk?
These are the questions Alyssa will answer this fall.
Alyssa’s a dancer who loves choreography. She’s new to town and she’s done with mean dance teams, and dance instructors who insult to motivate. She’s out to prove that an appreciative, supportive choreographer can win the Willow Dance Championship. When handsome, witty Thayer asks her out, the lights of New York shine even brighter. She doesn’t know he’s lying about his last name, thinks she’s a poor scholarship girl, and is on a date with her as an experiment. And when she finds out…
Thayer’s sick of dating the girls at Shay Prep who use his family’s influence to get ahead in society. He decides to date a girl from the prep school across town. That’s when his best friend offers him a challenge, “Stop with the prep school girls. Go out with a regular girl, not someone paying 100K a year in tuition.” It’s one of those ideas that hits him as right. Thayer musses his perfect hair, ditches his Shay Prep blazer and accepts the challenge. Twelve dollars will buy him a bit of truth – will a Manhattan girl go out with a guy who only has twelve dollars to spend on their date? He finds Alyssa, the pretty scholarship dancer.
Love and payback collide in this standalone fun YA romance.
Standalone, Happily Ever After, single female point of view, upper YA.
Dancers Quitters and Garden Gnomes eBook Emily Evans
YA at its best has a deep core. It speaks about maturity and what that actually is, about choices and how they define a person -- until that person chooses different possibilities and works to become someone new instead. This is a very fine YA novel. It has appealing characters who are sometimes profoundly unsure of themselves. They can be completely wrong, and sometimes choose to do the wrong thing, but when their hearts are in the right place, they're magnificent. Alyssa especially is a wonderful and wonderfully flawed person. At her old school she was a follower, got hurt because of it, and said nothing while others were hurt, so at Shay Prep she's decided to be herself and see what happens. That turns out to be a lot harder than she'd imagined, especially because of Thayer, a boy who attracts and repels her in almost equal measures. I really liked that their relationship was hard for them both for so long. Easy fixes aren't real. People don't change overnight, especially when they have such good reasons to be negative. Thayer has been used his whole life, and that's made him a very guarded jerk who's sure everyone is out for his money and his family's influence. Alyssa sees something more and stronger in him. She's determined to get him to see those same possibilities for himself, and to correct his false assumptions about her. Their relationship follows a much more realistic trajectory than in many books. There's no insta-love or cliched about-faces with one particular moment changing a person forever. Instead, their relationship gradually shifts through Alyssa's hard work and Thayer's slow learning to trust, despite setbacks, disappointment and personal attacks. And Thayer isn't the only one changing -- Alyssa, too, learns to stand up for herself and her own way of seeing, both as a person and as a choreographer. It's a lovely, satisfying story and I'm going to read Emily Evans' other work.Product details
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Dancers Quitters and Garden Gnomes eBook Emily Evans Reviews
was ok
Here is a strong female lead character, Alissa, who comes in to a new situation and does her best to do things the right way. Instead of beating down the dancers in her troupe, she encourages and motivates them. Instead of returning the rude behavior she sees in Thayer, the boy who interests her, she turns the other cheek and works on building trust and a friendship with him. One interesting side plot addresses economic status can a boy from one background make a go of things with a girl from another background? The author draws a parallel between these teenagers and Romeo and Juliet, whose families were equally prosperous rivals. The new money/old money discussion, thankfully, does not make an appearance. Hard work, talent and diligence do feature prominently and are rewarded.
This was a good page turner, It seemed a little rushed in the end and I felt that with the content it could have been placed within multiples books if the author would have chose to.
I have read and loved all of Emily Evans' Accidental series books and Dancers, Quitters, and Garden Gnomes is equally pleasing and refreshing. I loved Alyssa's strong character. I loved the dance and math brainiac aspects. I loved the usual Emily sarcasm. It was a quick, clean read that any fan of Emily's will enjoy!
I like this story. People see what they want to see. (How he sees her.)Some people give to others because they want to share happiness. (The last student dance.)
This is a beautifully written book for young adults and mature high school students. Although close to retirement, I loved every minute of it too. The main characters are wonderfully depicted and evolve in a natural and delightful way. The heroine is a dancer and math geek -- this makes for a lot of amusing situations as the different parts of her life, and the people in it, jockey for a comfortable place. Lots of subtle lessons about class, compassion, and leading with your heart are woven into the tale.
I loved this story. As soon as I saw this new book, I preordered it without even reading the synopsis, and I've read it from start to finish twice now. Emily Evans is one of my all time favorite YA author's.
Some of the characters are from the boarding school books, but you don't have to read them first.
I loved the characters, their chemistry was great, and their interactions were fun to read about.
YA at its best has a deep core. It speaks about maturity and what that actually is, about choices and how they define a person -- until that person chooses different possibilities and works to become someone new instead. This is a very fine YA novel. It has appealing characters who are sometimes profoundly unsure of themselves. They can be completely wrong, and sometimes choose to do the wrong thing, but when their hearts are in the right place, they're magnificent. Alyssa especially is a wonderful and wonderfully flawed person. At her old school she was a follower, got hurt because of it, and said nothing while others were hurt, so at Shay Prep she's decided to be herself and see what happens. That turns out to be a lot harder than she'd imagined, especially because of Thayer, a boy who attracts and repels her in almost equal measures. I really liked that their relationship was hard for them both for so long. Easy fixes aren't real. People don't change overnight, especially when they have such good reasons to be negative. Thayer has been used his whole life, and that's made him a very guarded jerk who's sure everyone is out for his money and his family's influence. Alyssa sees something more and stronger in him. She's determined to get him to see those same possibilities for himself, and to correct his false assumptions about her. Their relationship follows a much more realistic trajectory than in many books. There's no insta-love or cliched about-faces with one particular moment changing a person forever. Instead, their relationship gradually shifts through Alyssa's hard work and Thayer's slow learning to trust, despite setbacks, disappointment and personal attacks. And Thayer isn't the only one changing -- Alyssa, too, learns to stand up for herself and her own way of seeing, both as a person and as a choreographer. It's a lovely, satisfying story and I'm going to read Emily Evans' other work.
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