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Permanent Record by Mary H.K. Choi

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emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

“It took me so much searching to stop searching.” Bilal Rind, page 408

This book was very complicated for me to take in and process. Mainly because… there’s is no escapism. It was like stepping out of my own mind into a mirrored version of it. The depth in which we fall into Pablo’s depression was hard for me to deal with, but the “reckoning”/recovery section that followed was my favorite part of the entire book.

In the beginning, all the introspection was annoying to me, as I was marketed this book as a full blown romance (it was not). But when we got to the romance… I couldn’t bring myself to care too much. Lee was not really a character I could get behind until her final monologue in Seoul, and by then…
she was on her way out of Pablo’s life anyway.
I would’ve liked more about Lee but I know her story was not this story.

In conclusion, I liked this. A bit too heavy for me, well written, marketed oddly, and not my favorite of Chois books. 
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