So at first I'd like to say that I think this book is one of the best of its kind. And what I mean by this genre is hopeful, cozy books that feel like hug. I read few of those in my life and I can certainly state that this one is somewhere close to or at the top. It's really easy to read. I took it to my hands and I don't know when I already read one chapter after another. It felt kind of like a wind feeling on my face.

The first word that is coming to my mind when I think about this book is honesty. It was really honest. There was a lot of topics that maybe sometimes we don't want to talk about, but they were addressed in a very good way with prudence and such care, but at the same time there is no hiding behind the wall. There is so many questions asked in this book that makes you stopped for a second, look at it little bit longer and try to answer it for yourself. It makes you have a conversation with yourself in topics that are really important in our lifes which I think it's great and I feel like I kind of needed that questions in my life right now, but also the ones that I didn't even think to think about which I really liked.

There was a mention of a bookclub in the bookstore and I liked this part a lot! PageBound is giving me vibe of this sort of club and I absolutely love this. In real life I would be too shy and stressed to do something like that and in the book it sounded like a lot of fun, so I'm glad I can kind of experience this here, on PB!

I really enjoyed discusions about work. There was one specific chapter meant only for that and I think it was a masterpiece discussion. I think a lot of us might be struggling with this and have similar thoughts, but also except for that chapter throughout this book we have a lot of conversations and thoughts about jobs and working. How hard it is to find the balance and that sometimes the work space is not even letting us to find the balance. These parts I think will hit a lot of people right were they need it.

I love the character of Min-cheol. He is such a smart teenager. I feel like I could have seen myself in him at that age. Like I was pretty similar and the thoughts he had was hitting me hard. I liked his relathionship with Yeong-ju. I think it was really sweet. Their conversation about life and the feeling that it's meaningless was pricless. I like the conclusions he draws and how we can slowly see his character develops. Not in some big, outstanding way, but in a down-to-earth way, one we know from firsthand experience.

Alsoooo I really liked the romance in this story. It was so subtle that you can barely feel it, but it was portrayed with such sensitivity and warmth that it inspired hope and made it easy to root for them, all while not being the main focus at all.

I highly appreciated conversations about life in this book. Especially one between Yeoun-ju with Min-jun near the end (in my copy - page 323). The way Min-jun in this chapter is talking about the style of life is something that I think would be perfect if it would work like that. Also the conclusion that this book is giving and saying loud and clear that we are all living for the first time and we are all just trying our best. We will make mistakes and probably hurt people on our way to the life we want, but that is part of being human and that's okay.

I love these characters. You can easily find yourself in them, identify with them, their problems, their worldview, or what they say. They are just normal human that are trying their absolute best not to loose it in this world. I wish I could read more about them, because maybe they are not fighting dragons and doing all the time some amazingly exciting things, but I feel like what they are doing is enough and I enjoyed reading about this a lot. Relathionships in this books are so well made. The way it all gave me so much warmth is amazing.

If you need something that will give you some hope and at the same time ask you some maybe not quite comfortable questions I feel like this one will be a good choice. It's easy to pick up, you will read it with pleasure and hopefully you will love these characters enough to want to come back to their usual life just like most of us in this world. Highly recommend.