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A review by rogoreads
The Sense of Wonder by Matthew Salesses
4.0
Disclosure that I won this book for free in a Goodreads giveaway. (That's right, those are actually real!)
This isn't my usual genre: it's contemporary literary fiction, but it's a fast read and I found myself getting sucked in pretty easily. The characters are interesting and have distinct voices. There's commentary on race and racism, adoption, and it was cool to dive into the worlds of professional basketball and K-dramas, neither of which I know much about. The one thing I wasn't totally sold on was the sections describing the K-drama plots. I preferred hearing about the "real"-people characters, though maybe the stories were supposed to inform each other or be parallel and I missed it. Despite that, it was a good read.
This isn't my usual genre: it's contemporary literary fiction, but it's a fast read and I found myself getting sucked in pretty easily. The characters are interesting and have distinct voices. There's commentary on race and racism, adoption, and it was cool to dive into the worlds of professional basketball and K-dramas, neither of which I know much about. The one thing I wasn't totally sold on was the sections describing the K-drama plots. I preferred hearing about the "real"-people characters, though maybe the stories were supposed to inform each other or be parallel and I missed it. Despite that, it was a good read.