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A review by biblio_mom
Frankly in Love by David Yoon
3.0
I thought it was just going to be another high school romance kind of thing with a Korean-American as the main character until its not. It discussed a lot about racism and standards. City mouse-village mouse, cinta antara benua, cinta antara dua darjat kind of thing.
It follows Frank Li, who came from a highly racist Korean family living in America who marries and live in their own Korean community bubble. His sister Hanna was disowned when she falls for a white guy and as I predicted, Frank too fell for a white girl. Their family have The Gatherings where they spend time in each other houses in rotates each month and let their kids to befriend and even encourage them to build romantic relationships with each other because they want their Korean community to expand.
Joy Song is a girl whom Frank known his entire life and she’s dating Wu, a chinese guy. So they decided to fake-date each other to get time to date their actual dates. Embroidered with humour, especially between Frank and his Black bestfriend Q, I found myself snorting and laughing a lot of times. Their internal racist jokes just gets me.
Conflicts in the story happened when something unexpected happened to his father and when Frank discovered his actual feelings towards someone. The ending are sad and beautiful at the same time. But the disclosure are not surprising because I kinda guess it throughout the story.
It follows Frank Li, who came from a highly racist Korean family living in America who marries and live in their own Korean community bubble. His sister Hanna was disowned when she falls for a white guy and as I predicted, Frank too fell for a white girl. Their family have The Gatherings where they spend time in each other houses in rotates each month and let their kids to befriend and even encourage them to build romantic relationships with each other because they want their Korean community to expand.
Joy Song is a girl whom Frank known his entire life and she’s dating Wu, a chinese guy. So they decided to fake-date each other to get time to date their actual dates. Embroidered with humour, especially between Frank and his Black bestfriend Q, I found myself snorting and laughing a lot of times. Their internal racist jokes just gets me.
Conflicts in the story happened when something unexpected happened to his father and when Frank discovered his actual feelings towards someone. The ending are sad and beautiful at the same time. But the disclosure are not surprising because I kinda guess it throughout the story.