Dance the Night Away

*"Scream so loud they will hear you across the ocean." - Dance the Night Away tagline*

## **Official Description**

### Author

Cj Sanchez, Jace Blanchett, Amree Aguinaldo, & Kaela Giddings

### Publisher

HM

*"There's no problem with dancing the night, darkness, and problems away with your friends, but are you ready for the great consequence it costs?"*

**Dance the Night Away** (often abbreviated as **DTNA**) is the second installment of HM's TWICE Songfix Series, succeeding MORE & MORE, which also serves as its direct sequel. Its story is written by **Cj Sanchez**, **Jace Blanchett**, **Amree Aguinaldo**, and **Kaela Giddings** on July 31, 2020. The book stars **Belle Bello** as Louise Hillman- its protagonist, with **Michael Williams** as Rei Sotaro, **Stefan Sanchez** as Ethan Morales, and **Stefen Sanchez** as Nathan Cortez.

## **Plot**

Picking where MORE & MORE left off, DTNA now tells the story about survival and murder mystery through the next protagonist, Louise Hillman's eyes. The prodigies win the Spelling, Math, and Science competition, earning them a trip to Gloomwater Isle as a prize from the contest officiants. While they're on their way to Gloomwater Isle with **Harper Waters** (the owner of the yacht they're on), a bad storm suddenly catches them. Water starts to get in the yacht, breaking windows and doors in the process. With Ethan Morales' help, Louise notably tries to swim to go back to the yacht but still loses consciousness as she hits her head on a post, making her pass out.

Louise wakes up, realizing that she and her friends have crash-landed on an unknown shoreline, all of them safe, except for Harper, who's later revealed to be dead. Later, they learn that they're indeed in Gloomwater Isle, but there are no amenities nor facilities present, so they try to make do of what they have and survive. Louise gets skeptical about the place and situation they're in and heads out with Ethan to investigate around, leaving the others. She and Ethan confirm that Gloomwater Isle isn't even supposed to be a get-away vacation spot, and they've just been set up by someone. Their investigation gets interrupted by screaming, and by the time Ethan and Louise get back on the camp, Gavin Young is dead via shark attack, and Brandon Samuels passes out because of poison ivy.

Back at the camp, Louise and Ethan try to tell the others about how they should get out of the island. Twix Fey gets distracted by a poisonous water snake that eventually bites Ingrid Yuikawa, making Louise break down to tears for her friend. The next day, they hike on top of the island's mountain to signal or flag someone down for help, but the prodigies get trapped, revealing that Brandon isn't even Brandon- it's Hiro Takumi's dead soul who possessed him and is now working for the alive Harper, who turns out to be Althea Anastasakis' sister, Hera. Hera kills Briar Hawthorne with Ingrid's weapon, and Ingrid shoots another arrow at Hera and Hiro in return. Louise manages to get ahold of an anesthetic to inject it into the antagonists, and they leave the island on a helicopter Hera uses.

A week later, as the friends hang out by the pool on Serene Cove Resort, they wonder where Ingrid and Ethan are. As the most competitive duo in the series, Ingrid and Ethan are competing against each other in a small contest of skating, where Ethan bumps his head on a pole, resulting in Ingrid's head start. The prodigies catch up to the both of them, leading to Ingrid's closing narration of the book, passing the protagonist role to her for YES or YES.

## **Cast**

* **Belle Bello** as Louise Hillman, a singer, and the daughter of **Dr. Madelaine Hillman**, who Louise gets the medical knowledge from.
* Rei Sotaro is played by **Michael Williams**, and Rei is a smart prosecutor prodigy who often clashes with **Noah**, as he's a defense.
* **Stefan Sanchez** is Ethan Morales, Louise's love interest who's athletic, and won several competitions along with **Ryder**, **Emma**, and especially **Ingrid**.
* **Stefen Sanchez** as Nathan Cortez, an aspiring young chef who knows a lot of dishes, and is aiming to be one of the top chefs in the world.
* **Parriss Bell** is Hera Anastasakis, **Ana**'s vengeful younger sister who dedicated her life to killing the prodigies to avenge Ana.
* **Haruto Miyano** as Dr. Hiro Takumi, a young doctor handling most of the prodigies' class, and Ana's love interest.
* **Amree Aguinaldo** as Ingrid Yuikawa.
* **Cj Sanchez** as Noah Dalton.
* **Luci Sakuragi** as Twix Fey.
* **Kaela Giddings** as Briar Hawthorne.
* **Lucas Hale** as Gavin Young.
* **Jace Blanchett** as Brandon Samuels.

## **Trivias**

* MORE & MORE, DTNA, and YES or YES have 10 chapters in total; a prologue, 8 chapters, ending with the epilogue. The first letter of each chapter's name (excluding the prologue and epilogue) reads out its book title/initials: chapters 1-8 of MORE & MORE spell out "MOREMORE", Dance the Night Away has "DTNADTNA", and YES or YES' chapters spell out "YESORYES".
* TWICE's DTNA was released on July 9th, 2018, which is **Amree Aguinaldo**'s birthday. On a similar note, TWICE's YES or YES was released on **Belle Bello**'s birthday, November 5. Ironically, Belle's counterpart, Louise Hillman, is the main protagonist of DTNA, and Amree's counterpart, Ingrid Yuikawa, is YES or YES' main protagonist.
* The setting of all the stories is in Serene Cove, a small fictional city where the characters live in. It's mentioned that Serene Cove is a place in the States, but it was never specified where it could be. Although this is the case, it was hinted once by Ingrid in DTNA's ending that the sun sets on the east by Serene Sea's horizon, which means they're in a state by the left side of the United States map, namely the outskirts of either Oregon or California.
* In the draft of DTNA, Hiro Takumi wasn't supposed to be an antagonist and will just be the victim, as portrayed in MORE & MORE. Eventually, writers decided Hera can't work alone, so Hiro was inputted as one of the antagonists in the final version of the story.
	+ In one version of DTNA, Hiro wasn't even supposed to make an appearance, and Hera was a last-minute addition.
* MORE & MORE took place in either June or July, and DTNA is either July or August, since Brandon mentions that it's been five weeks after the epilogue as a time-skip. YES or YES took place in late February, because we witnessed Twix's birthday happening on the story, which is on February 24th.