so-soFULL REVIEW IN MY BLOG: http://abookandateacup.blogspot.com/2020/09/review-i-believe-in-thing-called-lov...
I have mixed feelings about this book. Sure, it made me laugh, and had a lot of heartwarming moments, but it also made me remember why I don‘t usually read YA contemporaries. It wasn‘t even on my TBR, although, as you know, sometimes you need a dose of romcom to leave the world outside and forget what a mess everything is around you.
Desi is our female lead in the story and she's a bit of an over-achiever, straight A student who has never been successful in any of her advances on getting a boyfriend. But that all changes when she meets Luca, a hunky, mysterious, artist who she completely embarrassed herself upon their first meet, yikes. That doesn't stop Desi though as she creates a list of steps based on kdramas to achieve her first boyfriend- if all doesn't backfire for her.
pick4/5 for this ya romcom! I thought this book was adorable. There were so many hilarious and cute parts. I loved Desi. She is a flawed over achiever. Her dad is just so awesome. Luca is a cutie. I love the kdrama! I definitely recommend this and will be reading more by this author.
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Rating: 4/5 ⭐
I can say that this book is a light book really like a cloud ☁️🌻
And it's a perfect summer read 💙☁️
I liked the relation between Desi and her father, the cozy family time they spend watching KDramas just like we do 😂
If you are a K-Drama fan this book is for you else it will introduce you to the K-Drama world.
Loved it¡¡
Also I'm so in love with the cover 😍🌻
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This book is fun! I love Maurene Goo and this one is probably my favorite. The main character tries to use lessons from K Dramas to improve her love life. (All of the author‘s titles come from pop songs) #Believe #BiblioMAYnia
pickI haven't watched K-drama, but this would be a great way to introduce younger students to the notion of genre. The protagonist's touching relationship with her dad is something else that strikes me as setting it above the average YA.
pickI unintentionally had a Korean-American book marathon as this book and Frankly in Love came off hold at the same time. It was a relief to have such a wonderful & adorable father-daughter relationship in this novel after the tension of Frankly in Love. I appreciated Goo's concept where a perfectionist student comes up with a step-by-step solution to getting a boyfriend based on K-Dramas. Plenty of cutesty moments, but it was also over the top. 👇🏼
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Desi Lee was a disaster at flirting with guys, especially Lukas. Until one day, her father introduced her to K-drama, which she quickly became obsessed with. She saw it as guidance, and formulated a plan to hopefully win Lukas heart.
pickOMG This book was just adorable. I have been a fan of telenovelas for a while now and this one based on K Dramas was just as good if not better. This reminded me of the TV show Jane the Virgin and I would love this to hit the tv screens as a movie or short series. If you are looking for a great read to enjoy at the pool side or beach look no further than this one right here.
panBook 1 in Asian readathon-5 challenges. This challenge was to read a book by an Asian author. The story is about a 17y/o person who used to control everything in her life including to get a boyfriend & to be loved. She will learn that you cannot control everything. I liked the cultural traditions mentioned, relationship between daughter-father & concept Flailure (do I have that🤔)But story was poor, superficial, forced.2⭐️from so-so to pan.
pickThis was such a cute and fun YA Romantic Comedy! Desi believes that everything has a plan. She knows what she wants to do. But when she meets the hottest guy Luca she knows she wants to get to know him better but she doesn't know how to go about it. So she studies the Korean dramas that her dad loves to watch. But when the fun in games of getting to know him turns into real feeling she finds what it really means to find true love!
In this book, the MC tries following rules she's learned watching Korean dramas to turn an #infatuation into something real. This is a fun book. #literarylove
pickOkay okay, second book from author and i like it!
I love Asian dramas, and i have been watching mostly Korean dramas. So this book intrigued me.
What does a student body president with dreams of becoming a doctor do her final year of high school? Why get a boyfriend of course! So she studies the dramas, she didn't understand why her dad loves, to find a way. But does it actually work?
so-soThis YA rom com was so over the top at some points I just couldn‘t fully get behind it. Which I guess is the point since main character Desi Lee uses tropes of K dramas in order to snag her first boyfriend before she graduates high school. It was a cute & funny read mostly & I could relate to the college application stress. It also had a wonderful depiction of a father/daughter relationship which is something I don‘t see a lot of in this genre.
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so-soSo... I thought I would love this book with the start being so promising but the longer it went on the less love I felt. The main character Desi is trying to win the guy using K Dramas to plot out a path to love. It‘s a cute concept until there‘s a ton of manipulation causing a accident and dangerous situations. The most endearing part of the story was the father/daughter relationship but it couldn‘t make up for her actions in the end.
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Shoes is getting his cuddling time with me while I read.
pickThis was such a great, funny and sad read! I loved a lot of topics and silly KDrama mentions - it was wonderful! #ibelieveinathingcalledlove #maurenegoo
I believed, and still believe, that you can build your dreams brick by brick. That you can accomplish anything with persistence.
Even falling in love.
So I decided to read this lazy cheesy YA romance based on korean dramas( I love kdramas) to put me out of my reading slump! Hope it works! Thank you @Beckykearns for the suggestion ❤😘
so-soI wanted to add a picture because I love the cover, but it wasn‘t loading on my Kindle. Anyway, this book was funny, but Desi‘s plan was rather manipulative and I‘m not into that. I feel like she could have really grown as a person, but she just says “I love you” and suddenly everything‘s alright again? It just doesn‘t seem like a healthy relationship... But now I really want to watch a K Drama.
panI did not care for this book. The main character was struck me wrong. The plot was full of tropes, which it seemed like it was trying to play on but it actually just played to. Predictable and sort of cringey.
so-soFinished this on a car ride to go buy some furniture! It was cute, but a little too predictable for my tastes. I did like learning about K dramas though!
For #Heartsandhardcovers #kidsinlove I thought about posting Romeo and Juliet, but really, that's a terrible example of love! Take a breath, kids! Instead, here's the most recent YA romance I've read. This one is fun and a lot more psychologically healthy! @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
so-soOh man, I really wanted to like this more. I liked the diversity and Desi‘s relationship with her dad was so sweet, but I don‘t think her character grew as much as I had hoped. I think I wanted more focus on her grieving her mom‘s death that loomed over the story.
These are all my January reads. It was a great month for reading, thanks to two snowstorms, a holiday, and a readathon. I read 13 books total, 4 were nonfiction (I guess Fire and Fury counts here!), 4 were audiobooks, and 4 were YA or children's. I enjoyed most of these, but the tagged book was the most fun so I'm choosing it for best of the month. #PopSugar18 #MMDchallenge #Nonfiction2018
The books I read for the #24in48 Readathon! My favorite was I Believe in a Thing Called Love by Maurene Goo. 😍📚👍🌟🎉
Probably my last read of the #24in48 #readathon since we‘ve got folks coming over to watch wrestling in a couple of hours. 50 pages in and its so cute and funny already! 😍📚
For #THEWALLSARECLOSINGIN giveaway by @Liberty I couldn't pick just one book as the best I've read so far this month. January has been a great month for reading! These are both YA novels that I loved. The tagged book was just really fun, and the other one was a more serious, but still great, read. Then I threw in a picture of one of my cats side-eyeing the idea that I need more books! Just for balance. #catsoflitsy
Starting to put my To-Read pile together for this weekend‘s #24in48 Readathon!
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