A review by sebrittainclark
Just the Two of Us by Ryu Hyang

Did not finish book.
I really loved the premise of the book. A doctor with few social skills falls for the woman who makes the boxed lunches he loves, but two things prevented it from working for me. First the main character Dr Soohyuk is kind of terrible. He yells at and berates the nurses and residents working around him and clearly has a huge ego. He's depicted as being really dedicated to treating his pediatric patients, but for me that didn't redeem how awful he was to everyone else. 

I also found some of the translation choices kept pulling me out of the story. When people would argue or curse the words didn't really make sense, and at one point a nurse calling a woman "ma'am" was meant to signify something meaningful, but we call everyone ma'am. It's a signifies that you're speaking respectfully to an adult woman, not necessarily that that woman has some sort of elevated status. Little details like that just made it hard for me to enjoy the story itself.

I thought Yuna was a lovely character, and the parts about food were really interesting, but the other issues just made this book not work for me.

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