✨Book Review✨

Variation - Rebecca Yarros

📖 Hudson is a Coast Guard rescue swimmer. Allie is an elite ballerina who just suffered a major injury. When Allie returns to her summer home to recover she finds herself face to face with Hudson - and a past she doesn’t want to remember. Childhood best friends, until they weren’t - their past is endlessly complicated. Will they be able to be pulled back together, or will they be driven apart forever?

📚 Rebecca Yarros is the antithesis of, “I’ll stop when I get to the end of this chapter.” Her cliffhangers are unable to be ignored and left me turning pages well past my bedtime. I really enjoyed this plot, the characters, and the intricate family dynamics that were included. While there were a lot of ballet references, Yarros did an excellent job weaving the information into the story in a way that felt natural and easy to understand. The twists were serious but utterly believable and the bedroom scenes are sizzlingly hot with a door that’s wide open.

I was so lucky to read an Advanced Readers Copy! Thank you to @rebeccayarros and @NetGalley for the opportunity to review early!

🌟 When this hits shelves on November 19th you’re going to want to pick up a copy! This is a contemporary romance you don’t want to miss.

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I swear, everything this woman writes is pure gold. Rebecca Yarros has a knack for pulling you in with drama and suspense while simultaneously wrecking your emotions. I loved it and I loved Variation. I felt all the feelings from Allie and Hudson with this Dual POV. Despair, anger, hurt, love, fear, joy, more despair... I understood both of their situations and their feelings for each other, and there was still plenty of mystery for all the plot twists at the end. I love that they owned their feelings and didn’t play immature games with each other throughout the whole book and I adore that he fell first within the first chapter. The nod at the “one bed” trope had me cackling. Just when I thought I could predict what was going to happen, I was taken another direction. ALSO - the spice was *chef’s kiss.* The barre scene?? DAMN..

Seeing their reunion after 10 years based around a little girl trying to find out who her birth parents are hit home for me because I was adopted as a baby too, and reading Juniper’s curiosity and her feelings brought me back to my own curiosities about my birth parents.

Overall, I loved how the title “Variation” had so many meanings in this book, from the initial ballet term, to the variations of stories told and believed (of Lina’s death, Allie and Hudson’s relationship, their mom’s “institution, Eva’s quarter life crisis) It was so well done.

By the end, my mind was completely blown, my heart shattered, stitched back together, resulting with me ugly crying.
5 stars!

Hudson & Allie are are really interesting characters that you instantly warm to, as always with Rebecca Yarros it is a perfect book to lose yourself in. Without giving too much away it is not as devastating as The Last Letter, so it is possible to read in public! A superb addition to the romance genre.

I grew up in ballet so this was an interesting read. There is a lot of nuance related to the dance world, and a sweet romance on the side. There is some miscommunication at the center of the plot but the great characters make up for it.