Love Languages

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC!

The beggining pages might be a little confusing, with all the speech bubbles in all the different languages; you might feel like you have to read or pay attention to everything. This is done on purpose to make you feel like the characters, who are living in a foreign country where they don't fully understand the language, and I think it was a super clever thing to do.

I absolutely loved the romance between the two main characters, I think it was very believable and very well written. You can totally feel their chemistry and you can see how they get closer and closer each page. I also loved the portrayal of these awkward moment that happen again and again between them trying to make the other understand dialogue or certain jokes told in a language the other doesn't speak or that makes no sense in their own language. And the way that both characters share their very own mixed language that only they really understand might just be THE sweetest thing I've read in a long while. It's a very tangible way to experience the connection and closeness they share.

The representation of the struggle when you learn a couple of languages, where you kinda become more fluent in the new language(s) but also start to lose your fluency in your native language is soooooo real, I laughed hard at that.