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Always Second Best

(Broken Dreams)

Elodie Nowodazkij (Goodreads Author)

4.09 · Rating details · 101 ratings · 37 reviews

Sometimes being first isn’t what you expected.

Seventeen-year-old ballerina Emilia Moretti is tired of always being second best. And she’s going to prove the world she deserves to be first. In her upcoming School of the Performing Arts showcase. In the eyes of her birth parents. And in the heart of the guy she loves. She spends hours rehearsing, hours dreaming about becom ...more

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Sep 08, 2015 Elodie added it · (Review from the author)

Shelves: 2015-books

Companion novel of ONE, TWO, THREE...

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Oct 01, 2015 Cynthia rated it liked it

Shelves: read-for-review, young-adult, netgalley, contemporary, 3-stars, read-in-2015, 2015-released

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This is the kind of book that I wanted to love but couldn’t nevertheless. There were some points that I found good but I had problems with majority parts of it. Please know that Always Second Best is part of a series but you could enjoy it anyway as a standalone.

Sixteen years old Em had her heart broken by a boy last summer. That summer should’ve been the summer she earns the ‘pr ...more

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Sep 11, 2015 Riley Edgewood rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

There are so many things to love about Always Second Best. This is a multifaceted story if ever there was one. It broke my heart, halfway attempted to put it back together, and then broke it all over again.

Always Second Best has Romeo & Juliet vibes for the modern YA audience, with a very different ending. It's a novel of love and of loss that shows us it's okay--even important--to question the things we feel so certain that we want. And same with relationships. Familial, romantic, platonic... There are so many things to love about Always Second Best. This is a multifaceted story if ever there was one. It broke my heart, halfway attempted to put it back together, and then broke it all over again.

Always Second Best has Romeo & Juliet vibes for the modern YA audience, with a very different ending. It's a novel of love and of loss that shows us it's okay--even important--to question the things we feel so certain that we want. And same with relationships. Familial, romantic, platonic... Sometimes relationships seem solid in their standing, whichever that standing may be. Love. Hate. Distrust. But by the end, nothing's exactly where it began. Forgiveness and perspective and knowledge are powerful things.

This is a book about discovering that no family is perfect and sometimes what may seem unforgivable is, actually, possible to let go of. Or at least to try.

Nick and Emilia. Nick and Em. I already loved them from A Summer Like No Other--which, you don't have to read to enjoy this book, but you should read it anyway.

"You're scared. But you don't need to be. Use this fear to show them who you are."

Nick is a hell of a guy. I loved him in the prequel and I love him even more now. Even when things between Em and he are rocky, he remains a rock in the way that he's there for her. This is a second chance romance you'll be rooting from from page one. (Or, if you've read the prequel, from before the book even begins.)

And Em. Man, life throws Em everything it can in this story and she stays on her feet. She's strong and determined and is given to gentle infusions of humor that make even the hardest scenes a little easier to bear.

The plot twists and winds through unexpected loops, one after another after another. Grief piles on top of grief. This book will slay you at times, but it will also put you as close to back together as it can. Which won't be all the way. Because Always Second Best is the kind of book that will stick with you, deep in your chest, for a long time after reading. ...more

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Jul 11, 2016 Rê rated it liked it

Shelves: 2015, young-adult-contemporary

**Review for A Summer Like No Other & Always Second Best ***

3 “Best friend's sister romance” STARS

I’ve always been a fan of any variation of the “best friend to lovers” trope. In the Broken Dreams series there's a good combination of that because Emily is not only Nick’s best friend’s little sister, but Em is also one of the people he trusts the most. Em & Nick’s relationship is not only linked to Robert (Em’s brother), but they have history together. They’d been there for each other since they ...more

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Jan 13, 2019 Melo rated it liked it

A story with an ending.
Not like the prequel, not perfect, but definitely better.
I still hope to see more introspection on the characters but at least I found some closure.
Anyeays, YA love stories will always be one of my favourite genres, and this book was about one of them.

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Oct 10, 2015 Cátia rated it really liked it

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I read A Summer Like no Other a couple of months ago and because of that as soon as I saw this book available for request on NetGalley I knew I needed to read it especially after the way that A Summer Like no Other ended. I wasn’t disappointed with this book. I loved the characters and seeing their development through the book. One thing I especially loved was that once Em and Nick were together there were no problems in their relationship that we are used to see ...more

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Jul 03, 2016 Esther Haddie's Haven rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, interesting-reads, blog-tours, reviewing, read-again, crush-swoon-worthy, heart-stabbingly-amazing, sweet-romance

DISCLAIMER: I received a copy of this book in exchange for honest review.

Getting to read the books back-to-back, one right after the other helped still my aching heart. If I did not have this book to continue Em and Nick's story, I think I might have had a heart attack. I am joking, but I am also very serious. I seem to take some things far too seriously, and my heart just throws me to the ground. My mom saw me pounding at my chest, I had just finished reading this, and she looked at me with bul ...more

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Dec 05, 2018 Lisa Bentley rated it liked it

Ooh I do love a good romance and in Elodie Nowodazkij’s novel Always Second Best we get a damn good romance. It is the will they/won’t they tale of Emelia and Nick and how they have decided to not be together but nothing seems to be able to keep them apart. Not their potential futures, not other partners and certainly not their families.

Always Second Best is only a short novel but it is packed full of drama. I couldn’t put it down as with the turning of each page I became more and more desperate ...more

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Dec 26, 2016 Chelle rated it really liked it

Shelves: yabc-challenge

I thought it was the perfect ending for these two, even though I was hoping for a wedding... lol But I love how Elodie writes and she brought Em and Nick together in a great way.

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May 24, 2019 Anushka rated it it was amazing

This book is awesome, there are many twists and secrets but there is a lot of love and understanding.
Love this story of Em and Nick,love them

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Jul 05, 2020 DD Hulbert rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Love it love the storyline

A sad but happy story. Also some excitement.

I also love romances and things like that so I read the caption, and I was interested.

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Aug 30, 2018 Misty rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Sooooo good!

You know those books that make you ugly cry and people just don't understand how you can love something so much that evokes such an emotion from you? Well this is one of those books. I lol'd and I cried big, fat ugly tears. Such a good, heart warming story with a lot of layers. Simply put this book moved me and I loved every minute of it. ...more

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Jul 10, 2016 Katherine Paschal rated it really liked it

Shelves: contemp-romance, teen, read-to-review

Em and Nick had one summer together, where they both knew that their relationship would have an expiration date. It has been months since that summer, which was both amazing and heartbreaking. Em has to face the rejection of her birth mother and too many secrets to keep track of. Nick has to deal with his father controlling every aspect of his life, including who he dates, so he can keep going to the dance academy. They both have so much baggage, but together they just might be strong enough to Em and Nick had one summer together, where they both knew that their relationship would have an expiration date. It has been months since that summer, which was both amazing and heartbreaking. Em has to face the rejection of her birth mother and too many secrets to keep track of. Nick has to deal with his father controlling every aspect of his life, including who he dates, so he can keep going to the dance academy. They both have so much baggage, but together they just might be strong enough to face the truth.

I have read book one in this series, One, Two Three, as well as the prequel novella, A Summer Like No Other, before reading this book. I would recommend reading the prequel novella before this story, but book one could actually fit anywhere since it is a different character who’s story takes place during and after this book. I have enjoyed this series; the books are cute, sweet romances filled with family dramas and hard life choices. Pretty much growing up teen books.

This book was more of a teen-growing-up book than all the rest, or at least the novella since that was almost exclusively on the romance between Em and Nick. The romance here had resolved with almost no drama and moderate amounts of angst by like page 80. The rest of the book dealt with the lies and drama that surrounded Em’s family and her choices on how to cope. This story had some hard truths the characters had to face, such as death, as well as actions that could destroy people, and mental handicaps. I like how the story alternated between both Em and Nick, each with a distinct voice and personality. The story centered on how the two come together to support the other while figuring out if dancing is their real passion. I enjoyed the relationship that Em and Jen developed, it made me happy that they could be something more than bitter rivals. It was also nice to see Nata the dancer instead of Nata the lost and broken from book 1.

The one issue I had with the this book, as well as the wholes series really, is the lack of dancing and the dancing related drama I hoped for. I have learned that the dancing is just a backdrop to emotional growth the characters experience, but I am not going to lie it makes me a little sad. I started the series looking for something similar to a teen version of the movie Center Stage with some Black Swan thrown in, and these are nothing like that. Still good books, and I will read more if something else comes out in the series, but don’t have the same expectations going in that I did. On a side note, I will never think about going to kill zombies the same.

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Jul 12, 2016 Kristyn - Reading to Unwind rated it really liked it

This is a two book series that follows Emilia and Nick who are both dancers at the same school. Emilia is adopted and has a brother named Roberto who happens to be Nick's best friend. Emilia, Nick and Roberto have been close friends and hung out together a lot in the past few years. The story is told from two point of views Emilia and Nick and goes back and forth in chapters.

The first book is about Emilia's search for her mother and answers about her adoption. Emilia's adopted father has lost h This is a two book series that follows Emilia and Nick who are both dancers at the same school. Emilia is adopted and has a brother named Roberto who happens to be Nick's best friend. Emilia, Nick and Roberto have been close friends and hung out together a lot in the past few years. The story is told from two point of views Emilia and Nick and goes back and forth in chapters.

The first book is about Emilia's search for her mother and answers about her adoption. Emilia's adopted father has lost his job so they are also in the process of downsizing. Nick is their to help Emilia with all this change and they start to become more then just friends. In the second book we get a much better look at their relationship as well as Emilia's continued search for answers on her adoption.

The first book is a super quick read that only took me a few hours to read. The story is basically taking place over a short period of time, which is the summer so it moves along rapidly. We do learn a lot of backstory on Emilia and Nick that I think is critical information to know for reading the second book. In my opinion the second book is much more captivating. The story is a lot more complex and again fast moving, but even faster then the first book. The second book spans a longer time period so each character experiences a lot of growing.

Things I loved about the series is all of the changes in relationships that the characters experience. Emilia had a rough time at school with this girl Jen. Jen used to date Nick at on point in the book. Emilia always though that Jen hated her and would be mean to her. Due to a tragedy that happens to Emilia's roommate Jen and Emilia have to room together. In between this time Emilia learns a lot about Jen and they become friends. As they talk things out in the book we learn that Jen is not the person that she seems and Emilia may have been quick to judge her. I love how this friendship grew and the importance of not judging a book by the cover.

Emilia and Nick both grow a lot during the series. Emilia learns everything about her adoption and has to come head first on with all of those feelings. What Emilia learns and in turn does with that information shows how strong of a character she actually is. Nick also does a lot of growing in the book he has learned to stand up to his father.

The ending of the book is amazing! We really get to see the strength in the characters and what the future might hold.

I received a copy of these books from YA Bound Book Tours for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of this book. ...more

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Oct 10, 2015 Tine’s Reviews rated it it was amazing

Shelves: netgalley, contemporary, social-issues, indie-author

( Source: Thanks to Net Galley and for the publisher. This will not affect my reviews. )

This story affect me so much, not in a bad way. They say “Make your Passion be your Profession”. And this story is all about Passion, Second Chances, and Dreams.

When I read this, there’s always a pang of sadness on me every time I read the point of views of Nick and Em and how hard it is for them after what happened last summer. Their wanting to be each other is KILLING ME!! And we can relate to this story be ( Source: Thanks to Net Galley and for the publisher. This will not affect my reviews. )

This story affect me so much, not in a bad way. They say “Make your Passion be your Profession”. And this story is all about Passion, Second Chances, and Dreams.

When I read this, there’s always a pang of sadness on me every time I read the point of views of Nick and Em and how hard it is for them after what happened last summer. Their wanting to be each other is KILLING ME!! And we can relate to this story because it faces the struggle of wanting to make your family proud of you and knowing and to follow your dreams.

” Being first doesn’t always mean the first place on the podium. Being first should be about learning what it is that makes you happy and pursuing that dream and not giving up and staying true to yourself. Being first should be about journey”

Em and Nick OHH!! I LOVE THEM BOTH, BUT IF I WOULD CHOOSE WHO I LOVE BETWEEN THEM, IT’S NICK. I love the characteristics of Nick, especially when he strive to do better and to prove to his dad that dancing is what he really loves. Even though his dad wants something for him. At first, I thought Nick is some kind of arrogant and stubborn son, but he is not. He easily switch girls from time to time because he follows his dad whenever he told him to date someone just for the sake of their business. But Nick changed because he loves EM.

We’ve known EM in the “A Summer Like This” that she found her true mother. And it’s been hard for her especially when she thought that her true mom don’t like her and it has a lot of revelation when her father revealed that he is her true father. But she has to be strong, and Nick is always on her side. Somehow, I relate to her about her passion. She may not be a lead to the showcase but she found what she really loves to do, it’s cooking. I admired her step mom, Amanda, because she’s a sweet, supportive and strong mom. It’s hard for her to accept the revelations of her husband. It was shocking revelation even to me.

Always Second Best follows a story of Nick and Em after their summer romance. A Summer Like No Other is the first part of the story. ...more

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Sep 07, 2015 Moa (The Reading Faery) rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, swoonworthy-guys, romance, heartwarming, heartbreak-and-loss, good-hearted-bad-boys, kleenex-tissues-needed, 2015-releases, family, young-adult

*I recieved ARCs from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not in any way affect my opinion, and all thoughts expressed in this review is unbiased and my own.*

Emilia is struggling with making her parents proud of her, and she feels like she’s never good enough. This has a lot to do with the fact that she is adopted. She is also trying to get her birth-mother to talk to her. At the same time, she’s struggling with her feelings for Nick, especially after their summer together, and *I recieved ARCs from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not in any way affect my opinion, and all thoughts expressed in this review is unbiased and my own.*

Emilia is struggling with making her parents proud of her, and she feels like she’s never good enough. This has a lot to do with the fact that she is adopted. She is also trying to get her birth-mother to talk to her. At the same time, she’s struggling with her feelings for Nick, especially after their summer together, and trying to figure out who she really is and what she wants to do.

I found Em really relatable. She reminded me a bit of myself, which made it really easy to relate to her. Everything about her felt real and genuine. I felt everything she felt. And her relationship to her grandmother was really sweet and touching.

Nick is totally swoon-worthy. He’s so protective of Em, and it’s really sweet.

The plot was great. I was actually surprised that it was taking place around the same time as One Dream Only and One, Two, Three, I thought it would be after, but I’m not complaining. It was actually interesting to see what happened at School of Performing Arts after Natalya had her accidents, to see how it affected everyone, especially Em.

And the plot twists – especially one – were really unpredictable. I did not see it coming. I was so shocked when all was revealed. And the ending was also pretty unpredictable, although it didn’t really shock me, but it wasn’t what I’d expected, either.

And I cried so much at one part of the book, you who have read it probably know which part I mean, but I won’t write it, because it’s a big spoiler. But I will say that I haven’t cried this much since I read The Fault in Our Stars.

I would definitely recommend this, even if you didn’t like the first book, because I totally loved this. It was such a sweet, moving, interesting book filled with awesome, relatable characters, and packed with a lot of emotion. It was an emotional roller coaster. ...more

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Sep 20, 2015 Angelica Mae rated it did not like it

Shelves: not-so

(I received a copy from Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.)

Always second best
Typo Error:
- Chapter 37: It should be Roberto who had blood poisoning and not Nick.
- Chapter 44 (page 168): where Nick shared about the last time he went to a hospital:
“…the last time I went to the hospital was when my grandmother passed away. I still remember him taking his last breath.”
First of all, I’m thankful for having the opportunity to read this book before it has been publish.

I love Noona. I love he (I received a copy from Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.)

Always second best
Typo Error:
- Chapter 37: It should be Roberto who had blood poisoning and not Nick.
- Chapter 44 (page 168): where Nick shared about the last time he went to a hospital:
“…the last time I went to the hospital was when my grandmother passed away. I still remember him taking his last breath.”
First of all, I’m thankful for having the opportunity to read this book before it has been publish.

I love Noona. I love her. I love her humility. I love her advice about love and pain and forgiveness.
One of her advices that I love the most is:
“But I don’t regret those loves because they didn’t mean to hurt me.
I didn’t go into those relationships thinking how bad they were for me, but rather how good they made me feel.”

This advice hit the spot for me. I’m the kind of person who focuses on the pain rather than how happy I can be despite the promise of getting hurt. I’d rather not experience being happy when I know in the end I’ll end up hurt and broken. But this advice made me think that sometime, feeling pain makes us human. Feeling the pain makes us cherish all the happiness and love we felt. To cherish those memories.

However, I don’t really like the book. The first chapters were kinda boring and those are the most crucial part for most readers. It depends on the vibes on those chapters whether the readers will read it till the end or toss it to the other side of the room.

While reading the book, it felt like Elodie got a lot of ideas for the book but it’s too much. It end up some of the ideas became unnecessary like the one about Jen’s. There are a lot of ideas cramped up and it’s too heavy and confusing. Too much ideas that some weren’t given details. Like the down syndrome of Hannah, there was no explanation or details of how it affects the father or their situation. How was it important to the story? It felt like it was just added to make the father more of a jerk. It was hanging and confusing.

It was monotomous. Sorry.
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Oct 16, 2015 Cristina (My Tiny Obsessions) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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I received an eArc from the publisher through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

As soon as I was done with A Summer Like No Other, I started with this novel, which I was glad to have received from the publisher through Netgalley (thank you!). I was glad to read more about Em and Nick, I really like them!

This book picks up several months after their failed relationship in the summer and I was pleasantly surprised that although the romance is a big part of the book, it is ...more

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Oct 26, 2015 Sarah rated it it was ok

Shelves: kidbooks

I received an ARC of this book via NetGalley.
This was kind of a Danielle Steele for teenagers: lots of melodrama, plenty of forbidden romance, some who-are-my-real-parents action. It got to the point where it was just a barrage of bad things all happening one after the other, which almost made it comical.
The story is told from two narrators, but their voices are so similar that I would often forget which one was talking and get confused (as they were the male and female romantic leads). Both fea ...more

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Oct 14, 2015 Amber Swinford rated it it was amazing

Seventeen year old ballerina Emilia Moretti has felt second best her whole life, and she has decided that she is going to show the world that she can be the best. (The world mainly being her birth mother and her ex best friend/summer fling.)

"But when everything went crashing faster than a dancer missing his or her landing, I still had hope. I dreamed he'd come and knock at my door, that he'd tell me he was sorry, that he'd fight for me."

Like most teenage girls (and hell, us adults as well!), E ...more

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Oct 12, 2015 Robyn rated it really liked it

Shelves: netgalley

Book three in the Broken Dreams series. Best to read A Summer Like No Other before this to really follow along.

Eight months after their summer together, Emilia and Nick find themselves tiptoeing around each other. For Emilia, being around Nick is just too difficult for her because she's in love with him. Nick flitting from one girl to the next has crushed her. She just doesn't know why they only had one summer. She tries to focus on her dancing, since the showcase is coming up and helping her N ...more

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Oct 08, 2015 Tonja Drecker rated it it was amazing

I've read all books up to this one in the series, so I was excited to see how Em's and Nick's stories would continue.

This book was as much a pleasure to read as the others, and the characters still grabbed, pulled me in and had me wishing life would finally go their way. There's some tension between Em and Nick thanks to their sort of relationship/break-up, and the way both of them build up walls seemed very realistic for people their age.

The story itself moves along at a nice pace...never with ...more

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Oct 14, 2015 Tanya Grech Welden rated it it was ok

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Jul 10, 2016 Christina rated it really liked it

Shelves: romantic-fiction, young-adult, coming-of-age

Romantic yet honest, this is a coming-of-age novel about looking beyond the pressure to succeed and taking control of your own happiness.

Emilia is concentrating on her forthcoming auditions to show the world, her birth mother, her parents, and her ex just how good she is. Nick is determined to dance for himself and get Em to give him a second chance. But when her world starts crashing around her, they both need to dig deep to realise what it is that truly matters.

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Aug 05, 2015 Jenn rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Another great read by Elodie Nowodazkij!!

Picking up eight months from when Emilia and Nick were together, they see themselves as attempting to work around one another. Emilia is unable to be around Nick because she loves him. She has been crushed by Nick going from one girl immediately onto the next. In order to get her mind on other things, she begins focusing all her attention on dancing and the showcase.

I finished this book in a matter of hours. I felt the emotion and pain that Emilia was goi ...more

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Sep 23, 2015 Megan Coppadge rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: author-given, first-read-not-goodreads

I received this book and the previous ones in the series courtesy of the author.

I loved this book. Loved it. Getting to know the characters and watching them go through so much and grow from it is an amazing thing. So many characters in books these days are so flat. No personality, no growth. But Elodies characters are the complete opposite and it's a wonderful thing. The storyline was great, the book moved along almost seamlessly. However there were a few small things, mistakes or some repetiti ...more

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Jul 19, 2015 Ane Mylund Pedersen rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: own, netgalley, kindle-ebooks, young-adult, engelske-bøger, 2015, serie, contemporary, high-school

I am glad, that I got a chance to read this book, so I got a ending to Em and Nicks story. I like the book, it was clear from the start, that Em and Nick still had feelings for each other after their summerromance. I really like how their relationship was in the end of the book. I really don't like neither of Em's and Nick's father's and all their secrets, it was a lot of secrets, but some of them turn out to help Em understand a lot about herself and who she is and nick was by her side all the ...more

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Sep 16, 2015 Harriett Trombatore rated it it was amazing

Great story of a true-to-life romance between two young people who have the same interests -- ballet. Em and Nick are really two typical teenagers, with one exception. Em's father has been fired by Nick's father and Nick's father has forbidden him to continue a relationship with Em. In spite of this, love finds a way and a severe illness of Em's brother leads to a reconciliation of the fathers. Nick also gains the ability to talk to his father about what really matters to him, and gains his fath ...more

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Aug 15, 2016 Sarah rated it it was amazing

Shelves: netgalley

So happy to have the chance to finish reading about Em and Nick! I read their novella this summer and to see their story find it's way to a conclusion was lovely. In the world of ballet, full of twisted relationships and lies, these two find their way back to each other after letting their families get in their way. Beautiful and heartbreaking because of the different challenges that they are facing, I was very satisfied with the way this story went and I hope to find another by Nowadzkij where ...more

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Jul 26, 2015 Jennifer rated it really liked it

After reading the prequel to this book, I was anxious to find out what happened to Nick and Em and to finally learn the truth behind Em's adoption.

I loved Em and Nick's character growth. She's such a sweetheart and I'm glad she found happiness. And kudos to Nick for taking a stand.

There was drama and romance and a hopeful ending and reading this series makes me feel like I'm visiting old friends (Nonna is THE BEST and I wish her restaurant was real so I could go there).

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