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A review by isitcake
The Dancer by Elin Peer
emotional
sad
fast-paced
4.0
This is easily the saddest book in this series. We saw Willow and Solo grow up together in the experimental school and their young love. But in the time skip something happened that has Willow hating him and Solo was banned from contacting her or being near her. It's just tragic how they were pulled apart and then Willow's emotional journey to reframe what happened to her and Solo finally allowing himself some hope again.
I read this awhile ago so my recap from memory:
When Solo was about to age out of the school at 15 he convinced Willow to run away with him as he thought it was the only way they could be together. He's trained to survive in the wild but Willow is younger and not trained. She nearly dies and spends week/months in recovery when they're finally caught. Solo is banned from ever seeing her again and is kind of forced to be a rookie for elite Doomsman training where he's also nearly killed for the shit he has to go through for endangering a woman. Since they're separated, Willow is essentially brainwashed into thinking that Solo tried to kill her and she goes back to the Motherlands for years.
Now years later the Motherlands is sending an artist tour of musicians, dancers, etc to the Northlands. Willow is part of the dance troupe. Khan and Magni think Solo's ban has been long enough and they assign him and his best friend / fellow Doomsman Zasquash and police officer Leo to guard them. Willow treats him like absolute shit and at the time I really hated her. She fucking threatens to falsely accuse him of rape at multiple points, GRRRR!! Of course she does some internal soul searching and finally realizes he was also young and mistaken but he loved her. During their time running away they had gotten married in their own little ceremony in a field. At the end ofthe book they build a cabin in that same field where they plan to live together.
Zasquash gets with musician Darlene (darn I wish they had a book!), Tristan gets with legendary singer Sabrina or something?, and Hunter gets his heart broken by Alice who just wanted casual sex when Hunter thought they would get married.
I read this awhile ago so my recap from memory:
Now years later the Motherlands is sending an artist tour of musicians, dancers, etc to the Northlands. Willow is part of the dance troupe. Khan and Magni think Solo's ban has been long enough and they assign him and his best friend / fellow Doomsman Zasquash and police officer Leo to guard them. Willow treats him like absolute shit and at the time I really hated her. She fucking threatens to falsely accuse him of rape at multiple points, GRRRR!! Of course she does some internal soul searching and finally realizes he was also young and mistaken but he loved her. During their time running away they had gotten married in their own little ceremony in a field. At the end ofthe book they build a cabin in that same field where they plan to live together.
Zasquash gets with musician Darlene (darn I wish they had a book!), Tristan gets with legendary singer Sabrina or something?, and Hunter gets his heart broken by Alice who just wanted casual sex when Hunter thought they would get married.