Evie Thomas doesn’t believe in love anymore. Especially after the strangest thing occurs one otherwise ordinary afternoon: She witnesses a couple kiss and is overcome with a vision of how their romance began . . . and how it will end. After all, even the greatest love stories end with a broken heart, eventually.

As Evie tries to understand why this is happening, she finds herself at La Brea Dance Studio, learning to waltz, fox-trot, and tango with a boy named X. X is everything that Evie is not: adventurous, passionate, daring. His philosophy is to say yes to everything–including entering a ballroom dance competition with a girl he’s only just met.

Falling for X is definitely not what Evie had in mind. If her visions of heartbreak have taught her anything, it’s that no one escapes love unscathed. But as she and X dance around and toward each other, Evie is forced to question all she thought she knew about life and love. In the end, is love worth the risk?

Yoon does it again with a swoon-worthy contemporary romance. I found Evie to be very relatable during this period of transition in her life. She’s cynical about love due to her father cheating and divorcing her mother. But it’s less anger and cynicism as feelings of loss, and nostalgia. She misses the person she used to be, the one who believed in love, and who thought her father was infallible. Also due to graduation coming, she doesn’t want her friendships or other relationships to change.

Evie also fears the pain as is common after these types of events. Heartache can be worse than a broken bone because with a broken bone there is a set time for when it will heal. Heartbreak can be forever.

The newfound curse she has to see the fate of other peoples’ love lives always end in heartbreak, fueling her desire to stay alone until X comes, and omg X is such a great romantic interest. I wanted him to be real. He’s funny and sweet and charismatic, and Evie with all her romance novel knowledge knows she’s falling for him after the patent one eyebrow smirk. Plus all the dance lessons together bring on the heat. Tango is the dance of lovers after all, and the cover illustrates that so well.

They were sweet together, but readers may be disappointed that their romance is more of a side story to Evie’s internal journey of seeing loving in the moment is worth it by itself.

My nitpick is more than her friends, while entertaining, felt a bit one-dimensional, but again, everyone was shut aside because this was Evie’s story. Not theirs. Even son, Evie’s Dad and Mom did have some great chapters that added insight to how they’re dealing with the divorce and add to Evie’s revelation about the importance of love even if love ends in heartbreak.

Another thing I enjoyed out of the book is that Yoon sidesteps the chapters focusing on minor characters or events that were present in The Sun is Also a Star, and Everything, Everything. This was purely focused on Evie and I think helped keep the narrative centered on her, her thoughts and reactions and how they shape her perspective.

It’s a light, thoughtful read that has nice moments of humor with lots of character development for Evie. Perfect for any romantic readers who want to remember why love is so important, and how scary, crazy, beautiful, uncertain, worth it, it is.

4 stars.