i'm obsessed with this book and i've reread it at least three times already. i have no idea what kind of drugs susan lee put in this book but i love it so much.
hannah, our mc, has finally gotten the hang of high school and she's ready to take on the summer at lifeguard camp with her boyfriend, nate. when nate unexpectedly breaks up with her, paired with the fact that her mother is making her exit lifeguard camp, hannah doesn't think things could get worse until she finds out that her childhood best friend, jacob, is coming back to visit for the summer.
jacob is a budding, up-and-coming, kdrama actor whose been getting bigger and bigger by the moment, with legions of fans. he really needs a break and hates his lonely but star-studded life where he's in a fake relationship with his co-star that's actually a huge asshole (to him and everyone else). he's in desperate need of a break.
hannah still has a grudge because jacob left her right before high school started without saying anything. he was just gone, with no attempts to contact her again. when their respective mothers put hannah in charge of being a good host to jacob, hannah decides she's going to continue to ignore jacob and sneak off to lifeguard camp in hopes that she can get nate to get back together with her. when jacob catches her sneaking out, he promises not to snitch if hannah agrees to take him around the city and they slowly start to warm up to each other, which is what their meddling mothers want!!!
as the book progresses we can see that hannah never really forgot about jacob despite her grudge, and she remembers his allergies even when he's been cured from them! aaaaa!!! she wants to study allergies and stuff as a career which was because of him!!!
other aspects of the book i liked:
the hold that kpop and kdramas have on white people!! hannah's spent her life whitewashing herself only for all of her friend group to be into the k-anything trend?? nate breaks up with her because she's not korean enough for him (potential fetish i think)??? now that everyone is into kdramas, they have to work extra hard to keep jacob out of the eyes of obsessive fans.
the romance:
i love how begrudgingly hannah was to warm up to jacob at first, especially because she was still fixated on trying to get back together with nate. jacob's a skinny little dude that hannah often had to stand up for when they were younger but the tables have turned and he punches someone for her!! they go to legoland together!! i love it.
hannah, our mc, has finally gotten the hang of high school and she's ready to take on the summer at lifeguard camp with her boyfriend, nate. when nate unexpectedly breaks up with her, paired with the fact that her mother is making her exit lifeguard camp, hannah doesn't think things could get worse until she finds out that her childhood best friend, jacob, is coming back to visit for the summer.
jacob is a budding, up-and-coming, kdrama actor whose been getting bigger and bigger by the moment, with legions of fans. he really needs a break and hates his lonely but star-studded life where he's in a fake relationship with his co-star that's actually a huge asshole (to him and everyone else). he's in desperate need of a break.
hannah still has a grudge because jacob left her right before high school started without saying anything. he was just gone, with no attempts to contact her again. when their respective mothers put hannah in charge of being a good host to jacob, hannah decides she's going to continue to ignore jacob and sneak off to lifeguard camp in hopes that she can get nate to get back together with her. when jacob catches her sneaking out, he promises not to snitch if hannah agrees to take him around the city and they slowly start to warm up to each other, which is what their meddling mothers want!!!
as the book progresses we can see that hannah never really forgot about jacob despite her grudge, and she remembers his allergies even when he's been cured from them! aaaaa!!! she wants to study allergies and stuff as a career which was because of him!!!
other aspects of the book i liked:
the hold that kpop and kdramas have on white people!! hannah's spent her life whitewashing herself only for all of her friend group to be into the k-anything trend?? nate breaks up with her because she's not korean enough for him (potential fetish i think)??? now that everyone is into kdramas, they have to work extra hard to keep jacob out of the eyes of obsessive fans.
the romance:
i love how begrudgingly hannah was to warm up to jacob at first, especially because she was still fixated on trying to get back together with nate. jacob's a skinny little dude that hannah often had to stand up for when they were younger but the tables have turned and he punches someone for her!! they go to legoland together!! i love it.