![]() ![]() Kyuri works as a room girl at a top room salon – kind of like a hard drinking geisha meets top call girl. Wonna has her own problems with her workplace and her husband and doesn’t begin to interact with the others until a moment of need later in the book. Three are single and good friends and the fourth is married and pregnant. Set in South Korea, the book is about four women in live in the same apartment building in Seoul. There was a lot of characters and a lot to get through, so some parts of the plot didn’t get as much page time as I’d like. While I enjoyed it, I didn’t spectacularly fall in love. Coming back to this book was like reuniting with someone from ‘before’ with a sense of familiarity. ![]() ![]() Then a snap lockdown occurred and I lost interest in reading anything except news for a couple of days. I was at a bit of a loss as to what to read, so I thought I’d try this. If I Had Your Face is a book I saw on many ‘best of 2020’ lists by people whose bookish opinions I respect. Why I chose it: Read many excellent reviews. The not-so-good: Wasn’t as shocking as other reviews had led me to believe. The good: Different setting, different troubles. ![]() In brief: Four women are trying to keep their heads above water in their competitive lives in Seoul. ![]()
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