{"id":10319,"date":"2019-04-05T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=10319"},"modified":"2019-04-03T12:09:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T17:09:50","slug":"e-everywhere-you-want-to-be-by-christina-june-ya-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=10319","title":{"rendered":"E = EVERYWHERE YOU WANT TO BE, by Christina June (YA book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Be a dancer? No, go to college!
Who will get the lead role? Watch your back!
Play it safe with her heart? Take a chance, Tilly!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It may be her last opportunity to dance, so she’s working hard with the troupe, refining her technique<\/a>, hoping her mother will relent and allow Tilly to keep dancing, instead of immediately attending Mama’s dream college.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A backstabbing troupe member, an old friend who may become a new love, late-night stress baking, all of New York City to explore in this too-short summer! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You might have met Tilly earlier in her stepsister Tatum’s story, It Started With Goodbye<\/em> (I recommended it here<\/a>), and their abuela and Paolo, too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And check out Tilly’s guide to New York on the publisher’s website here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When do you know which dreams are uniquely yours?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info<\/strong>: Everywhere You Want to Be \/ Christina June. Blink YA, 2018. [author site<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My book talk<\/strong>: From her quiet DC suburb to New York City’s clamor, Tilly is thrilled to be with a summer dance troupe, but competition for roles gets vicious!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their choreographer\/director is a genius, telling them that ‘slaying the dragon’ will center their dance in a stunning performance space to end the summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What a summer! Grueling and rewarding rehearsals, exploring the city with her roommate, increasingly irksome pranks, and trying to undo the way she ended things at home with musician Paolo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scouts from major ballet companies will be at their performance. Their families and friends will be there. Will the saboteur strike there, too?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One final summer to dance, to pray that Mama won’t force her to attend college, to dream that her future is all dance (and some Paolo, too) – too much to ask?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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