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I Believe in a Thing Called Love
by Maurene Goo
Can I just saw I love fluffy contemporaries that don't emotionally scar me?? Like, this book was so cute and fun and light anD THANK GOODNESS. My feelings have been played with too many times during 2017 and this was a great book to close out the year.
This was an addicting read that had me laughing out loud and swooning for Luca Drakos. Like. OHMYGOSH HE'S SO CUTE.
Plot
No one's been really talking about this book and I'm really sad about it. Basically, this story follows Desi Lee, a girl who has a plan for everything in order to have a super successful life. She's basically perfect: perfect grades, perfect athlete, perfect extracurriculars, perfect everything. Her over-perfectness is balanced out with her terrible luck with love. The girl just can't seem to catch a break. Whenever she has a crush, she messes up hugely. Then, a really really cute guy comes to her school and she's determined to not mess up this time. She turns to her dad's beloved K dramas as a guide to get the guy.
My Feelings
Okay, so there were a lot of things that I loved about this book and a ton of things that I was iffy on.
Likes: The characters in this were amazing. They were also distinct and *wait for it* DIVERSE. Y'ALL. SO MUCH DIVERSITY. And the Korean rep was awesome! The banter between Desi and her best friends was so funny.
I also loved the romance aspects when *spoilers* Desi gets together with Luca. IT WAS JUST SO CUTE. MY HEART CAN'T TAKE IT. THEY WERE SO BEAUTIFUL. AGGGGGH.
The writing was fast-paced and heartwarming to read. I often found myself grinning as I read about the antics Desi faced.
Dislikes: I have two main things that I didn't like in the book: 1) there was some girl-on-girl hate and 2) some of the things Desi did was not okay, like, at all.
We meet this one girl that just absolutely hates Desi with a passion with a reason that's not very good. Demi also hates Luca's ex and I don't know if it's just me but his ex was written in such a weird way. She isn't written with as much depth as I wish she had and she's just kind of like the stereotypical pretentious white girl. I think more development with her (the ex) and Luca's relationship would've been appreciated.
And Desi does some absolutely crazy things to get Luca to like her. Like, full-on psycho crazy. *spoiler ahead* *end spoiler* I love Desi but sometimes she goes a little bit too crazy for my taste and probably everyone else's.
Nevertheless, I still really enjoyed this book and it was still super cute so 4 stars for this one!!
Rating
When I started this story I thought it would be a five star read but because of the problems I had, I had to knock it down a star.
This book was still a really fun read that reminded me a lot of [To All the Boys I've Loved Before]. There aren't that many similarities between the actual story but the main character is Korean American and the main guy is SUPER cute. Not as cute as Peter K tho. *swoons* I was rereading some of the cute parts from this book and now I need to go read about Peter and Lara Jean again. The writing for the books are also quite similar but they are a bit more distinct. Lara Jean has a more childish voice compared to Desi Lee but that has nothing to do with the authors but more-so because of the characters. Desi is very in-control and mature.
In conclusion, this book was amazing and I recommend it to anyone who is CRAVING fun, light-hearted contemporary!
This was an addicting read that had me laughing out loud and swooning for Luca Drakos. Like. OHMYGOSH HE'S SO CUTE.
Plot
No one's been really talking about this book and I'm really sad about it. Basically, this story follows Desi Lee, a girl who has a plan for everything in order to have a super successful life. She's basically perfect: perfect grades, perfect athlete, perfect extracurriculars, perfect everything. Her over-perfectness is balanced out with her terrible luck with love. The girl just can't seem to catch a break. Whenever she has a crush, she messes up hugely. Then, a really really cute guy comes to her school and she's determined to not mess up this time. She turns to her dad's beloved K dramas as a guide to get the guy.
My Feelings
Okay, so there were a lot of things that I loved about this book and a ton of things that I was iffy on.
Likes: The characters in this were amazing. They were also distinct and *wait for it* DIVERSE. Y'ALL. SO MUCH DIVERSITY. And the Korean rep was awesome! The banter between Desi and her best friends was so funny.
I also loved the romance aspects when *spoilers* Desi gets together with Luca. IT WAS JUST SO CUTE. MY HEART CAN'T TAKE IT. THEY WERE SO BEAUTIFUL. AGGGGGH.
The writing was fast-paced and heartwarming to read. I often found myself grinning as I read about the antics Desi faced.
Dislikes: I have two main things that I didn't like in the book: 1) there was some girl-on-girl hate and 2) some of the things Desi did was not okay, like, at all.
We meet this one girl that just absolutely hates Desi with a passion with a reason that's not very good. Demi also hates Luca's ex and I don't know if it's just me but his ex was written in such a weird way. She isn't written with as much depth as I wish she had and she's just kind of like the stereotypical pretentious white girl. I think more development with her (the ex) and Luca's relationship would've been appreciated.
And Desi does some absolutely crazy things to get Luca to like her. Like, full-on psycho crazy. *spoiler ahead*
Spoiler
She causes his car accident??? She causes him drowning??? She pretends to do so many things??? She manipulates him???Nevertheless, I still really enjoyed this book and it was still super cute so 4 stars for this one!!
Rating
When I started this story I thought it would be a five star read but because of the problems I had, I had to knock it down a star.
This book was still a really fun read that reminded me a lot of [To All the Boys I've Loved Before]. There aren't that many similarities between the actual story but the main character is Korean American and the main guy is SUPER cute. Not as cute as Peter K tho. *swoons* I was rereading some of the cute parts from this book and now I need to go read about Peter and Lara Jean again. The writing for the books are also quite similar but they are a bit more distinct. Lara Jean has a more childish voice compared to Desi Lee but that has nothing to do with the authors but more-so because of the characters. Desi is very in-control and mature.
In conclusion, this book was amazing and I recommend it to anyone who is CRAVING fun, light-hearted contemporary!