A review by thehobb
Frankly in Love by David Yoon

1.0

It's worth mentioning that I wouldn't have read this book if not for a school event... 'cause I am definitely not a fan of romance novels. Aside from that, I went into Frankly in Love with an open mind and decided that I might as well *try* to like it. That failed in a lot of ways.

While it was not the worst book I've read, it did have its flaws. For example, I thought that it was trying to force way too many different plots at once. And frankly, it just didn't work. Beyond this point will be unmarked spoilers.

Spoiler

We were promised a cute fake dating book, but that is definitely not what we got. Frank Li was supposed to fall in love with a Korean girl, so he pretended to date his friend so that they could both go out with the people that they wanted to. Well, then he ended up falling in love with that Korean girl. Like, what? That's seriously how you're going to solve the "main conflict" of your book? Then it switched to something totally different with his dad's injuries and cancer??? Why use this cliche and beaten to death trope? It's so overdone, especially in the way that it was using it so that he and his dad could work out their differences before his death. I recently read a book that did a similar thing, but that was the *focus* of that book. We knew that it was going to be about it. The cancer in Frankly in Love feels like an afterthought.

Also, the audiobook narrator was phenomenal.