REVIEW: #37 Honey Mustard
October 22, 2009 by Allison
Filed under Manga, Reviews, Series, Young Adult
Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes
Book Cover
Synopsis: (Taken from back of book)
It’s love at second site! When Ara works up the nerve to ask out the boy of her dreams, she gets all glammed up and boozed up.. and ends up kissing Young-Woo, the wrong guy! The juicy smooch is witnessed by the school’s puritanical chaperone, who tells their strict families. Now everyone is in an uproar, and the only way these angry families will be appeased is if the two get married .. and have kids!
Review:
I don’t know what it is lately – but lately I haven’t been loving the new series I have been trying out. This one was okay. It had it’s moments, but all around a bit choppy. When asked why she named her series Honey Mustard, the author said because she loved the sauce. I don’t know about you – but that seemed kind of a silly reason. As of finishing book 1, Honey Mustard has nothing to do with the content. If you ask me, it’s kind of a silly reason to name a book something because you like a condiment.
Sometimes I found myself sort of confused as to who the people were and how they were all related. I couldn’t figure out who the two men who were living with Young-Woo were. One minute it seems as if the one man is his brother – but then his father? He looks too young to be his father, but there was a comment about what his “son” did. So really – I am a bit stumped. Grandfather/Father/Son? But the “Father” looks so much like a girl, that it drives me nuts and confuses me. So unless I look it up on the wikipedia, I probably will have no idea how to sort that character mess out.
Nothing really happens in the book that you don’t read on the cover – although you start to feel a little sorry for the main character, Ara. She lives in a household where she’s not entirely loved – and she’s put in her place by the hand slapping of her father. I am not really familiar with the Korean culture, or Korean-based/written Manga so I am not sure if that’s pretty common. Ara seemed pretty desperate for love and it was just.. sad. Well, regardless of everything, it still remained an overall cute read.
Popularity: unranked [?]
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Intersting name for a book! lol Sounds cute, though
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It seems weird to me that the families would force them to get married. But I’ll still have to read the book. Thanks for the reveiw.