"Being Asian I’ve become very concerned with AAPI people being the villain and being fetishsized in books and in film. I see this happening in a lot of AM/BW romance novels. one book constantly talked about the shape of eyes even described the guy’s skin colour as “yellow”( cringe) . Family and honor is very important to most Asian families. The conflict that author Sydney Arrison created in Summer & Joon is very realistic. Jin reminded me of my own sister. She had me ROTFL. Summer’s friendship with Scottie was very endearing It does take a village to get by. Summer was fine moving along in life with her goals set and then during a hectic time she meets Joon KWon. The chemistry between the two of them jumps off the page. This was a very well -written good book and I appreciate not using stereotypes to tell the story."
-Hei
