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A review by boisdelaire
Frankly in Love by David Yoon
1.0
★ ─── 1.5 star read.
i was probably not the public this book was aiming at. i am maybe too old to read such childish books, but man, the synopsis was not that bad, it could have had potential and good things to evoke, to point at. but it all fell SO flat, that’s definitely the worst book i’ve read in 2023, i almost dnfed it everytime i picked it up but it helped me going through some days at my job when the shift was boring, i’ll grant it that.
i understand some people will know what frank is going through and i’m definitely not evoking this part of the book, it’s everyone’s own experience, especially if you deal with what he is dealing. but the author made it so hard to identify with the frank, because frank was a vision of young people that was… very old-fashioned. not true at all. not even remotely CLOSE to reality. there are not 50 synonyms for the word phone but strangely, the author found all of them ?? the main character was SO boring, SO irritating, he was just insufferable most of the time, i hated being in his point of view to be honest. he was not like the other kids, he didn’t want to receive his university’s acceptation through his computer because it made him entitled to its screen. he did not use social medias because it rendered him passive and not intelligent. he always associated to the sister of his best friend the word sexy and it’s.. omg stop it at one point, we got it the first time.
i was probably not the public this book was aiming at. i am maybe too old to read such childish books, but man, the synopsis was not that bad, it could have had potential and good things to evoke, to point at. but it all fell SO flat, that’s definitely the worst book i’ve read in 2023, i almost dnfed it everytime i picked it up but it helped me going through some days at my job when the shift was boring, i’ll grant it that.
i understand some people will know what frank is going through and i’m definitely not evoking this part of the book, it’s everyone’s own experience, especially if you deal with what he is dealing. but the author made it so hard to identify with the frank, because frank was a vision of young people that was… very old-fashioned. not true at all. not even remotely CLOSE to reality. there are not 50 synonyms for the word phone but strangely, the author found all of them ?? the main character was SO boring, SO irritating, he was just insufferable most of the time, i hated being in his point of view to be honest. he was not like the other kids, he didn’t want to receive his university’s acceptation through his computer because it made him entitled to its screen. he did not use social medias because it rendered him passive and not intelligent. he always associated to the sister of his best friend the word sexy and it’s.. omg stop it at one point, we got it the first time.