Lily: i just finished yolk and it could be anywhere between 2.5 and 4.5 So we'll be kind in our rating this time.īottom line: Who knows anything! But I think I liked this. And as established, I am capable of loving Mary HK Choi and equally inclined to appreciate suffering. While Emergency Contact is a hard yes from page 1 to page 347, or whatever, this was a yes/no/maybe so constantly and it never changed.īut I love sisters. This book made me go back and forth a lot. There are no two characters in a contemporary YA romance with a cover that sweet and lovely that suffer so much. That's probably why I love Mary HK Choi's Emergency Contact so much. So this book, which is both a) so sad, so filled with suffering, and b) a source of deep and profound confusion to me in terms of what I think about it (and I am someone who cannot feel confused without feeling dumb, and immediately feel angry whenever I feel dumb, in a vicious cycle that makes me seem like an eleven year old boy with a Fortnite addiction and a tendency toward tantrum-throwing).well, it checks the suffering requirement twice over. But it is my sweet spot, my comfort place, what I know. Nobody loves pain and anguish and sorrow except Disney movie villains and people who work at the airport. When I showed Lizzy the concept, I didn’t even know if it would be possible to do and that maybe it would get rejected for complexity or budget.Something about me is that I love to suffer. Like, how can I do a close-up of faces and still communicate all the other aspects of the book like the city and separation-which felt to me to be very important to the story? As I got closer to finishing the book, all of those different directions suddenly seemed to merge together into one idea. Initially, the ideas were so different from each other that it felt like there was nothing to really latch on to.

So when I was reading I had all those options in my mind floating around. A close-up on faces, referencing specific moments, different spaces, etc. Gg: Oh, I had plenty of worries about the technical aspects of the Permanent Record cover as well! Unlike the mood board for Emergency Contact, which suggested one idea for the cover layout, the PR mood board had a bunch of very disparate suggestions.

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