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wawa_m 's review for:
I Believe in a Thing Called Love
by Maurene Goo
Whoo, boy! Funny, unique, and lovable.
Desi is great at almost everything: school, sports, cars, random knowledge except she's a disaster at love. So she devises a foolproof (are they ever?) plan to win over the new guy. The plan is to follow a list of K-drama tropes so that she can ensure a happy ending to rival all others.
Desi is hardly a unique character (what with her being an overachiever with bad luck in love) but her experiences and her romantic failure-to-launch moments were hilarious especially at the beginning. I liked that the story was simple but also majorly packed with sweet moments between the main character and her crush. I also loved the way Maurene Goo portrayed her relationship with her father, not to mention not over-simplifying the depiction of family dynamics and loss for the MC the rest of the characters. Speaking of whom, the other characters were quite the ensemble with their backgrounds explained well. I feel like you got to know them properly at the individual level and how they fit into Desi's life.
So read this if you like a good young adult love story where the MC is a little nerdy and a little awkward, but aren't well?
Desi is great at almost everything: school, sports, cars, random knowledge except she's a disaster at love. So she devises a foolproof (are they ever?) plan to win over the new guy. The plan is to follow a list of K-drama tropes so that she can ensure a happy ending to rival all others.
Desi is hardly a unique character (what with her being an overachiever with bad luck in love) but her experiences and her romantic failure-to-launch moments were hilarious especially at the beginning. I liked that the story was simple but also majorly packed with sweet moments between the main character and her crush. I also loved the way Maurene Goo portrayed her relationship with her father, not to mention not over-simplifying the depiction of family dynamics and loss for the MC the rest of the characters. Speaking of whom, the other characters were quite the ensemble with their backgrounds explained well. I feel like you got to know them properly at the individual level and how they fit into Desi's life.
So read this if you like a good young adult love story where the MC is a little nerdy and a little awkward, but aren't well?