Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I think there's a time, a place and a specific target audience which makes reading Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop a pleasant experience, and it's marketisation as a 'therapy book' means that these conditions are often met. In my case this was true and I got a lot out of indulging in this story, including plenty of book and coffee-related analogies! The story doesn't delve quite as much as it could into the individual lives of all the characters as it's a fairly short read, that said it does focus on their relationships and what unites them- in this, it's very successful!



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