Frank Li is a Korean-American high school senior and he just fell in love. The only problem is that she isn’t Korean. Knowing that his parents won’t approve of him hanging out with a white girl, Frank comes up with a plan to pretend to date family friend Joy, another Korean-American who currently has a Chinese boyfriend, so that they can both sneak out to see their real partners. What could go wrong?
Frankly in Love was an adorable YA read. Frank and his friends easily felt like they could’ve been my friends and I in high school. It’s so fun to read about characters that are worried about SAT scores and college admissions, who go to museums and play stupid dance games and try new foods with their friends.
This book contains a lot of important musings on race and I only wish that we had seen the characters actually talking to each other about these things more instead of just Frank’s thoughts. I know that there are high school kids having these conversations with each other and Frank and his friends were presented as incredibly smart so I wondered why they never actually addressed these things with each other on the page.
Frankly in Love was an adorable YA read. Frank and his friends easily felt like they could’ve been my friends and I in high school. It’s so fun to read about characters that are worried about SAT scores and college admissions, who go to museums and play stupid dance games and try new foods with their friends.
This book contains a lot of important musings on race and I only wish that we had seen the characters actually talking to each other about these things more instead of just Frank’s thoughts. I know that there are high school kids having these conversations with each other and Frank and his friends were presented as incredibly smart so I wondered why they never actually addressed these things with each other on the page.