There is no way that what you think about them will be correct. It taught me that you can’t judge someone that you just met. It taught me the effect that we can have on others life’s without when realizing it. 'This book was amazing and it taught me so much. I am an irredeemable curmudgeon full of practical concerns and I'm reading this thinking, Natasha, girl, you better go home and pack your things right now instead of traipsing all across town with some stranger-danger boy!' - Karen on Goodreads (opens in new tab) (Both ‘more than I liked it’ and also, probably, more than you would like me). These facts interest me.Īs for the rest, if you can embrace the fantasy of it, you will like the book more than me. It's really fast-paced, served up in short, POV-switching chunks that alternate between our two young lovers, the people that will cross their path/alter their fate over the course of this single day, and some rather more dispassionate interjections from an unattributed, omniscient source popping in to drop knowledge about topics as varied as the multiverse or the evolution of eyeballs or why the African American haircare industry is almost entirely in the hands of Korean-American immigrants. For example, the chapter narrated by the waitress at the Korean restaurant was a perfect bittersweet amuse-bouche.įor the most part, this is a day-long mooshy-sweet meet-cute between the rational scientific mind of a Jamaican immigrant facing imminent deportation and the hopeless romantic heart of a Korean-American poet about to disappoint his parents (yeah, that old story). On the other hand, there’s a good deal here that is unconnected to the romance that I did like. On the one hand, yes, there's lots of goopy, earnest, ‘lalala we just met but it’s true love and fate and destiny’ stuff that’s just not my bag. 'Has this changed my mind about romance novels, YA or otherwise? No.

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