I loved Desi Lee and found her awkward overachiever self very charming and relatable. Which is good--for a book with this storyline, it's super important that we like Desi because otherwise once she gets going with her K-Drama Plan to Get a Boyfriend.....well, if we didn't like her, she would kiiind of be the villain, because this Boyfriend Plan is really intense and could have caused some serious injuries!!! (This is me reading as an Adult.)

I've never seen any K-dramas but they're explained enough in the book and also I feel like I get the concept enough from other things in pop culture to see where Desi's coming from--the imperiled heroine, the big true love moment when the hero realizes she's in danger, etc....that's all so pervasive and seems so appealing.

Her plan is still super wack but I believed it and I still believed the relationship that formed from it. At some points I was feeling so much secondhand embarrassment I had to read like, a paragraph at a time and stare at the wall for awhile between paragraphs to recover my senses. I was in very deep.

All in all a great YA romance with a lot of funny bits and great side characters (including a lesbian couple), great for fans of Sarah Dessen etc etc etc.

Spoiler

for awhile I was afraid she was never going to reveal her plan to Luca and I felt so bad about it!!! spoiler it all comes out tho!!!