Release Date: May 30, 2017Published by: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux (BYR)
Read from: May 26- May 27, 2017Stand-aloneSource: Netgalley (I received a copy of this book from the Netgalley and the Publisher in exchange for a just and honest review. This did nothing to influence my review.)For fans of: Marginalized Voices, Diverse Authors, Realistic Fiction, Sparkly Covers, Summer Love
Desi Lee knows how carburetors work. She learned CPR at the age of five. As a high school senior, she has never missed a day of school and has never had a B in her entire life. She's for sure going to Stanford. But—she’s never had a boyfriend. In fact, she’s a disaster in romance, a clumsy, stammering humiliation-magnet whose botched attempts at flirting have become legendary with her friends. So when the hottest human specimen to have ever lived walks into her life one day, Desi decides to tackle her flirting failures with the same zest she’s applied to everything else in her life. She finds her answer in the Korean dramas her father has been obsessively watching for years—where the hapless heroine always seems to end up in the arms of her true love by episode ten. It's a simple formula, and Desi is a quick study. Armed with her “K Drama Rules for True Love,” Desi goes after the moody, elusive artist Luca Drakos—and boat rescues, love triangles, and fake car crashes ensue. But when the fun and games turn to true feels, Desi finds out that real love is about way more than just drama.
"I never lost the belief that yoou could will something just by sticking to it, by being unwavering."1%
"I believed, and still believe, that you can build your dreams brick by brick."1%
"Don't you know that if it's true love, even bad beginnings end happy?"11%
"There are worse things than having a relationship fail, you know [...] eventually you have to stop playing games."46%
"You cannot control who you love, Desi, but you can always control how hard you fight, okay?"91%
Labels: Contemporary, Cover Whore, Diversity, e-ARC, e-Book, LOL, POC, POC MC, Realistic Fiction, Romance, Summer Love, YA