Peony is a writer from Thailand, best known for her wlw stories. Her most notable work "รินไม่มีวันรัก" (also translated to English, titled "Denied love") has been adapted into a successful TV series.
Peony herself is a part of the LGBT+ community. Following Thailand's same-sex marriage legalization in January 2025, Peony registered a marriage certificate with her girlfriend in March 2025.
Denied love in the title but the denial of love gets too excessive 😨
In the exposition of this book, Rin gets broken up with her ex and she turns depressed. Her father tries to make her move on by setting Rin up with Khem, a girl whom loved Rin ever since she was a kid. This kinda icked me off because if you're heartbroken then you definitely shouldn't get into a relationship instantly. Rin doesn't like Khem and throughout the novel it's just Khem desperately trying to pursue Rin and Rin crying back for her ex. It was repeating throughout every chapter which is really boring since none of the characters really develop and the only thing Rin likes in Khem is sex. I like the pining troupe but it was just too much in this novel. Rin is very aggressive towards Khem and you could even consider it verbal abuse! But of course, like the lovesick puppy Khem is, she eventually bags her which is good for her😁.
I watched the series before reading the book. I didn't know how accurate the show was to the book, after reading it I can say it's pretty much scene by scene the same. I feel like if the translation was better I could give 4 stars to the book, but the way some sentences where translated just kept throwing me out of the book. I'm glad I read it cause I understood some things that weren't too clear on the series or at least I hadn't realized then. One thing I didn't expect was to have Khem move on from his father's death so fast. In the series was the same, but I just assumed it was a bad adaptation from the book. Guess not...