The only problem is, Jung Hwa had known Chul Min only while she had been blind, and doesn’t recognize him on sight the way he recognizes her. The fear of losing someone we care about because they start to see us unmasked is exhausting and consumes so much of our mental energy. Despite my meddling siblings and a week in each other's constant company, this trip somehow gets us working through the trouble in paradise. Fiercely independent, strong, and tough, Frankie doesn’t need or want someone to fight her battles for her, or to treat her with kid gloves.

This is the importance of Own Voices books and the knowledge that can come from reading them while enjoying a beautiful story. From the beginning, Ren and Frankie’s chemistry is so palpable that I was on the edge of my seat, waiting for them to finally act on it.This is the second book I have read this year, that featured a character with RA, and the way both characters dealt with their hidden disability just awed me.

Once, when he was unconscious on the ice, so I hardly think that counts, and the other time, when an extreme fan shoved her way through a crowd, yelling that she'd had his face tattooed on her lady bits because, and I quote, "a girl can dream.I hold it over my plate and lean to trap my drink's straw with my mouth, taking a long pull of root beer.