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✨REVIEW✨ 
Hazel and Josh have known each other since college, when she said some really embarrassing things to him while drunk at a party and then threw up on his shoes. As adults, they cross paths again and wind up setting each other up on a series of blind double dates. Of course, it's obvious to all their dates that Josh and Hazel should really be the ones going out with each other. 📚
Hazel, in most other stories would be a generic manic pixie dream girl, there for Josh to learn about himself. Instead, she's her own person with an internal logic to her actions, and a central part of the story is about how men toss her aside when they get tired of her personality. I appreciated that she was allowed to be over the top and Josh protected her right to simply be herself. 📚
I will say that Hazel acts kind of weird about Josh's Korean name. I don't know if any Korean readers had a problem with this but it seemed out of step with the rest of the message of acceptance in this book. 📚