Winter in Sokcho

2.5:

There's not a lot I have to say about this book, really. I'd read it was similar to Convenience Store Woman, which I loved because I resonated with it; but I don't see the similarities, other than having a female protagonist with a “menial” job.

I like how descriptive Elisa was of Sokcho, its sights, its inhabitants, and their food. I felt I was walking around with the MC. The dreariness of a tourist location in its off-season made me think of my own home.

I feel like we didn't really get to know the MC that well, and for me it takes away from the story, which doesn't seem to have a plot at all. If her relationship with the Frenchman was a romance, albeit a seemingly unrequited one, it wasn't very convincing. There were different paths the story could have taken, maybe she could have delved deeper on the topic of body image, and beauty standards.

To me it wasn't all that memorable in the end, but it flowed nicely and was easy to read.

I wanted to like this book but it was so boring and all of the characters were so unpleasant and all of their interactions were bad.