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I Believe in a Thing Called Love
by Maurene Goo
So here's the deal:
I Believe In a Thing Called Love is a super-cute and genuinely funny YA contemporary romance and I'm looking forward to checking out Maurene Goo's next book! I am genuinely interested in K-Dramas now (I even started one on Netflix!). It was feel-good and happy.
Still, it was kind of hard to look past the fact that Desi was being manipulative to get the guy. It's one thing to show up at a place you know your crush will be and hope to bump into them. Planting nails on a road so that he can pop his tires and get into a minor car accident? I think that might have been the thing that kept me from giving this more than 3 stars.
Again, K-Dramas have a formula that Desi sticks to and they aren't real. And sure, this book isn't "real" either. But it takes place in the real world and she is using things that happen in a controlled environment due to a script in a way that can be more harmful. I sound like a total square, but if I were Luca, I would be upset that I was put in danger or had to pay for damages and that it was sort of the plan the whole time. Not the kind of relationship I want.
I liked Goo's writing and, like many others, I adorrrrrrred the relationship between Desi and her father - super cute! It's just that I couldn't look past the plan as anything more than lies. Wah wahhhhh.
I Believe In a Thing Called Love is a super-cute and genuinely funny YA contemporary romance and I'm looking forward to checking out Maurene Goo's next book! I am genuinely interested in K-Dramas now (I even started one on Netflix!). It was feel-good and happy.
Still, it was kind of hard to look past the fact that Desi was being manipulative to get the guy. It's one thing to show up at a place you know your crush will be and hope to bump into them. Planting nails on a road so that he can pop his tires and get into a minor car accident? I think that might have been the thing that kept me from giving this more than 3 stars.
Again, K-Dramas have a formula that Desi sticks to and they aren't real. And sure, this book isn't "real" either. But it takes place in the real world and she is using things that happen in a controlled environment due to a script in a way that can be more harmful. I sound like a total square, but if I were Luca, I would be upset that I was put in danger or had to pay for damages and that it was sort of the plan the whole time. Not the kind of relationship I want.
I liked Goo's writing and, like many others, I adorrrrrrred the relationship between Desi and her father - super cute! It's just that I couldn't look past the plan as anything more than lies. Wah wahhhhh.