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A review by gossamer_lens
Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon
Did not finish book. Stopped at 0%.
Nothing in me wants the first book I picked up this year to be a DNF... I had heard it was cute, fun, and full of great diversity. Maybe it is those things, but nothing about the main character's inner monologue during the first 5% of this book jived with me. She is so done with love, goes on and on about not getting that other people can react differently to the same event, and then goes on a slut shaming of her sister.
*mild spoilers* I had to put down the book though when the main character says her sister has had "8 different boyfriends, which is an average of 0.667 boyfriends per month, or 0.154 boyfriends per week." Like... girl. Be fing for real. That isn't how math word problems work. No test would ask how many boyfriends Danika has had per month... one cannot have 0.667 a boyfriend in a month. One could be asked how many months each boyfriend lasts on average. But nobody can have 0.154 of a boyfriend a week. You either have 1 boyfriend, more boyfriends, or no boyfriends. One can only have a whole number of boyfriends... not a partial. Unless one cut up a boyfriend and only had 0.154 left of him... but that would be a more interesting story and not what this one was clearly going on to be.
*mild spoilers* I had to put down the book though when the main character says her sister has had "8 different boyfriends, which is an average of 0.667 boyfriends per month, or 0.154 boyfriends per week." Like... girl. Be fing for real. That isn't how math word problems work. No test would ask how many boyfriends Danika has had per month... one cannot have 0.667 a boyfriend in a month. One could be asked how many months each boyfriend lasts on average. But nobody can have 0.154 of a boyfriend a week. You either have 1 boyfriend, more boyfriends, or no boyfriends. One can only have a whole number of boyfriends... not a partial. Unless one cut up a boyfriend and only had 0.154 left of him... but that would be a more interesting story and not what this one was clearly going on to be.