A review by tlindhorst
Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park

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

3.0

This book is about the friends and lovers of the MC. As a gay man in Korea, he has lots of casual sex, and relationships with two men who are 1) homophobic our 2) distant. It may be that books by US young gay men have similar themes - IDK because I don’t read them. But this book felt like it could have been written in the 1980’s - lots of conservative, self-hating takes on being gay with all the characters. I am ambivalent about this book.