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A review by alibrareads
Frankly in Love by David Yoon
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
4.0
The fake-dating portion of this book takes up only the first half, after which it gets pretty real and melancholy at times. This isn’t what I would call a happily-ever-after book, but it is relatable and raw and a snapshot of one stretch of time in a Korean-American teeanger’s life dealing with love, his future, and his relationship to a culture he wasn’t born in but influences everything he does through his parents.
It was unceremonious a lot of the time. Frank experiences something, and then suddenly it is in the past, and time goes on. Someone who was your everything suddenly becomes a stranger you once knew, someone you thought was just an acquaintance turns into someone you love in the blink of an eye, conversations are full of feeling and subtext and history while the words themselves are mundane.
This had more to say than I thought it would, even if it is just that life is complicated, and it changes, and hearts change, and people change, but sometimes they don’t, and then it just keeps going, and you’re off to experience the next thing. In the end it was ultimately hopeful: life goes on.
I wouldn’t read this if you’re specifically wanting just a light-hearted teenage romance, because this was heavier than the bright colorful cover makes it look. But it was a good book!
It was unceremonious a lot of the time. Frank experiences something, and then suddenly it is in the past, and time goes on. Someone who was your everything suddenly becomes a stranger you once knew, someone you thought was just an acquaintance turns into someone you love in the blink of an eye, conversations are full of feeling and subtext and history while the words themselves are mundane.
This had more to say than I thought it would, even if it is just that life is complicated, and it changes, and hearts change, and people change, but sometimes they don’t, and then it just keeps going, and you’re off to experience the next thing. In the end it was ultimately hopeful: life goes on.
I wouldn’t read this if you’re specifically wanting just a light-hearted teenage romance, because this was heavier than the bright colorful cover makes it look. But it was a good book!