Wicked Fox

i was gonna give this 2 stars, but jihoon.

i think the k-drama comparisons are accurate but that wasn't a good thing for me, seeing as i can barely get through most k-dramas without wanting to tear my hair out. similarly, this book had me wondering, “is there a point to any of this?” for a grand chunk of the book, with little bits of enjoyable moments of jihoon being a goof who flirts with old ladies.

everyone outside of jihoon and yena felt 2-dimensional, which was frustrating with regards to some key side characters. tons of dialogue, but little description of things like reactions or anything else that would've given side characters some life. even during the most climactic scenes, it felt boring.

additionally, not a fan of the whole miscommunication/lack of communication trend in this book. it was incredibly frustrating and it just felt like after by anna todd (wherein hardin and tessa get in a menial argument, walk away angrily, then return two seconds later and schmang). miscommunication/lack of communication would be revealed, one person would scream at another, but none of that mattered because things would resolve unreasonably in less than two pages. y'all???

this book had so much potential and i was let down by the execution. i think some of the plots points and twists were good but, again, were not executed well and the rest of the book really dragged all the good parts down.