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For the k-drama obsessed and newbies a perfect mix of crazy plans , funny moments and genuine teenage emotions. As a k-drama lover it felt like a drama wrapped up in a book and the ride was amazing.
Fun look at how Kdramas can help you in real life! Yep. It's true. Also, I loved the kdrama list in the back. For future reference. :)
I don't usually go for light and fluffy romantic YA, but this funny and fast-paced story snagged me from the start. Desi's determination to win her dude, take care of her dad and pretty much be the best student ever is both endearing and crazy. The side cast of characters felt a little underdeveloped, which I can forgive since the story was narrated from first person perspective. Plus Desi's voice was authentic, refreshing and totally engaging. :)
It made me cringe.
It made me laugh.
It made me smile, like any good contemporary. Love the Asian rep and how it intertwined a K-drama. It was a cute and quick read, the characters stressed me out sometime (like in most contemporaries) but I enjoyed it.
It made me laugh.
It made me smile, like any good contemporary. Love the Asian rep and how it intertwined a K-drama. It was a cute and quick read, the characters stressed me out sometime (like in most contemporaries) but I enjoyed it.
** Books 89 - 2019 **
Buku ini untuk menyelesaikan Disneyreadathon 2019
3,2 dari 5 bintang!
Horeee! Buku keempat dari Tim Mulan kelar untuk dibaca! Jujur ketika tema buku yang harus dibaca Young Adult Romance ternyata aku baru sadar di timbunan TBRku tidak ada satupun tema yang masuk untuk kategori ini. Akhirnya dikasih rekomendasi sama teman satu tim Mulan juga. Thanks to Fani! karena dia tahu aku belum membaca buku ini dan ada di Gramedia Digital Premium! Sekali lagi terima kasih karena you know me so well ya sist fufufu
Desi Lee seorang gadis super pintar berusia 17 tahun yang belum pernah punya yang namanya pacar selalu saja ada kesialan yang mengikutinya ketika ia menggaet laki-laki incaannya. Suatu saat disekolahnya kedatangan murid laki-laki baru bernama Luca yang menarik perhatiannya. Akankah Desi berhasil mendapatkan hatinya luca?
Seriusan membaca buku ini mengingatkanku akan kisah Trilogi [b:To All the Boys I've Loved Before|15749186|To All the Boys I've Loved Before (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #1)|Jenny Han|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1372086100l/15749186._SY75_.jpg|21442106] by Jenny Han. Tapi kalo bisa dikatakan aku lebih menyukai kisah TATBILB dibandingkan dengan buku ini karena kharismanya Peter Kavinsky benar-benar menjerat hatiku(tengil2 ngangenin keinget masa muda eaak) dan ramai karena lara Jean tiga bersaudara juga jadi konfliknya lebih dapat kalau buku ini Desi Lee kan anak tunggal jadi rasanya ada sesuatu yang kurang atau Lucanya terlalu baik bener ya gak ada cacatnya? Ketimbang Luca yang ini aku lebih memilih Luca Crosszerianya [b:裏切りは僕の名前を知っている 9 Uragiri wa Boku no Namae wo Shitteiru 9 |12706079|裏切りは僕の名前を知っている 9 Uragiri wa Boku no Namae wo Shitteiru 9 |Hotaru Odagiri|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1332437299l/12706079._SX50_.jpg|17838673] wkwk
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Disney Readathon 2019 (TEAM MULAN)
1. Fa Mulan
Read a book with a powerful female lead
Review : https://www.goodreads.com/review/edit/36137954-on-the-come-up
2. Li Shang
Read a book that features of Squad
Review : https://www.goodreads.com/review/edit/1340120.Across_the_Nightingale_Floor
3. The Matchmaker
Read a Young Adult Romance
Review : https://www.goodreads.com/review/edit/36473230-i-believe-in-a-thing-called-love---aku-percaya-pada-cinta
4. Shan Yu
Read a book over 500 pages
Review : https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2769772872
5. Mushu
Read The Group Books
Review : https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2944458842
6. Timon
Read the Group books of Team Lion King
Review : https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1163007401?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1
7. Simba
Read a book featuring a male protagonist
Review : Not Yet
8. Abu
Read the Group Books of Team Aladdin
Review : Not Yet
9. The Magic Carpet
Read a Fantasy Book
Review : Not Yet
10. Maximus
Read the Group Books of Team Tangled
Review : Not Yet
11. Rapunzel
Read a book with glowing reviews
Review : Not Yet
Buku ini untuk menyelesaikan Disneyreadathon 2019
3,2 dari 5 bintang!
Horeee! Buku keempat dari Tim Mulan kelar untuk dibaca! Jujur ketika tema buku yang harus dibaca Young Adult Romance ternyata aku baru sadar di timbunan TBRku tidak ada satupun tema yang masuk untuk kategori ini. Akhirnya dikasih rekomendasi sama teman satu tim Mulan juga. Thanks to Fani! karena dia tahu aku belum membaca buku ini dan ada di Gramedia Digital Premium! Sekali lagi terima kasih karena you know me so well ya sist fufufu
Desi Lee seorang gadis super pintar berusia 17 tahun yang belum pernah punya yang namanya pacar selalu saja ada kesialan yang mengikutinya ketika ia menggaet laki-laki incaannya. Suatu saat disekolahnya kedatangan murid laki-laki baru bernama Luca yang menarik perhatiannya. Akankah Desi berhasil mendapatkan hatinya luca?
Seriusan membaca buku ini mengingatkanku akan kisah Trilogi [b:To All the Boys I've Loved Before|15749186|To All the Boys I've Loved Before (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #1)|Jenny Han|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1372086100l/15749186._SY75_.jpg|21442106] by Jenny Han. Tapi kalo bisa dikatakan aku lebih menyukai kisah TATBILB dibandingkan dengan buku ini karena kharismanya Peter Kavinsky benar-benar menjerat hatiku
Terimakasih Gramedia Digital Premium!
-----------------------------------------
Disney Readathon 2019 (TEAM MULAN)
1. Fa Mulan
Read a book with a powerful female lead
Review : https://www.goodreads.com/review/edit/36137954-on-the-come-up
2. Li Shang
Read a book that features of Squad
Review : https://www.goodreads.com/review/edit/1340120.Across_the_Nightingale_Floor
3. The Matchmaker
Read a Young Adult Romance
Review : https://www.goodreads.com/review/edit/36473230-i-believe-in-a-thing-called-love---aku-percaya-pada-cinta
4. Shan Yu
Read a book over 500 pages
Review : https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2769772872
5. Mushu
Read The Group Books
Review : https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2944458842
6. Timon
Read the Group books of Team Lion King
Review : https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1163007401?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1
7. Simba
Read a book featuring a male protagonist
Review : Not Yet
8. Abu
Read the Group Books of Team Aladdin
Review : Not Yet
9. The Magic Carpet
Read a Fantasy Book
Review : Not Yet
10. Maximus
Read the Group Books of Team Tangled
Review : Not Yet
11. Rapunzel
Read a book with glowing reviews
Review : Not Yet
Desi Lee esta LOCA xD se metía en tantas situaciones tan ridículas que no podía dejar de reír. y el elemento de los k-dramas solo lo hacia mejor, I was living cada vez que mencionaban mis dramas favoritos. Lo único que no me gusto es que Desi pone en peligro varias veces la vida de Luca, odie que no pensara en las consecuencias de sus acciones.
Listen, I love kdramas.
I live for it. I love all the unbelievable things that happen and recently it has been my main source of gushy romance.
I thought I was gonna love this.
But the things the main character did were all inexcusable to me and I couldn't bring myself to want them to end up together. I was rooting against them, which is not something you want to feel in a romance novel.
I also felt like it was very formulaic (although she was following steps so I get it?) and I could not for my life support the main character's decisions.
Had a male character done all these things, would we not be complaining about how abusive the beginning of their relationship was? How manipulative? Staging a car accident which got him hurt? Pretending to drown so he would be worried about her life and forget why he was (reasonably) upset?
It's a bunch of red flags, one after another.
So this wasn't for me, sadly.
If this ended with him not coming back to her and Desi learning a lesson from it it would've probably been a 5 star book.
It was still a pretty fast read and I'm sure many people will like it. I enjoyed all the references to popular kdramas and bits of Korean culture. It just wasn't what I want from a romance book.
I live for it. I love all the unbelievable things that happen and recently it has been my main source of gushy romance.
I thought I was gonna love this.
But the things the main character did were all inexcusable to me and I couldn't bring myself to want them to end up together. I was rooting against them, which is not something you want to feel in a romance novel.
I also felt like it was very formulaic (although she was following steps so I get it?) and I could not for my life support the main character's decisions.
Had a male character done all these things, would we not be complaining about how abusive the beginning of their relationship was? How manipulative? Staging a car accident which got him hurt? Pretending to drown so he would be worried about her life and forget why he was (reasonably) upset?
It's a bunch of red flags, one after another.
So this wasn't for me, sadly.
If this ended with him not coming back to her and Desi learning a lesson from it it would've probably been a 5 star book.
It was still a pretty fast read and I'm sure many people will like it. I enjoyed all the references to popular kdramas and bits of Korean culture. It just wasn't what I want from a romance book.
An utter joy from cover to cover. And it has a Kdrama reclist at the end! <3333
I did not care for this book at all. I typically love YA romances with all the fluttery first love feelings. But I found the MC annoying manipulative. And I didn't feel like there was that much chemistry between them.
Spoilers below:
The premise is she struggles with guys so she decides to follow the formula of how love always works out in K-dramas that actually sounds like a cute premise. But it involves a lot of manipulative stuff, like untying a boat from the dock so they get washed out into the ocean and staging a car accident. Then when the guy finds out about all of it and breaks up with her. Of course there was no doubt in my mind they'd get back together... But she wins him back by pulling another manipulative stunt that almost gets him killed. WTF?
Spoilers below:
The premise is she struggles with guys so she decides to follow the formula of how love always works out in K-dramas that actually sounds like a cute premise. But it involves a lot of manipulative stuff, like untying a boat from the dock so they get washed out into the ocean and staging a car accident. Then when the guy finds out about all of it and breaks up with her. Of course there was no doubt in my mind they'd get back together... But she wins him back by pulling another manipulative stunt that almost gets him killed. WTF?