Review: Dancers, Quitters, and Garden Gnomes - Emily Evans - November 2016 One of my favorite YA authors that each story, I have enjoyed as they have been quite cutesy and end in a HEA is Emily Evans. In Dancers, Quitters, and Garden Gnomes we meet Thayer and Alyssa. Our story starts with Thayer at a dance school competition for choreographers and dancers where Alyssa is waiting for her dancing picks. Here she meets Thayer who decides to "slum" it and picks Alyssa to go on a date with as for the first time - he is with someone who wants to spend time with him and not for his family name or money. The next week starts and Thayer ends up ghosting Alyssa which is a shame as she thought they connected. Alyssa starts her new school and sees Thayer and realizes that he is another rich jerk and the reason he is ghosting Alyssa is that he thinks she is poor which is far from the truth, she just doesn't believe in flouncing her wealth. When Thayer realizes who Alyssa is and di...