Thank you Net Galley, for the copy of this!
I really liked this a lot. There were a lot of different aspects-romance (Sophie finding a match for herself despite herself), the emotional abuse Sophie received from her family, career, and friendship. I loved it that the story started with Sophie’s big leap to starting her business and moving into her home (really nice) apartment. It’s not until details start to come out a little later that you realized just what a huge deal that was. And what at first might seem like just mother daughter conflict becomes clear that her family is completely abusive. It was fascinating. I loved it that Sophie’s professional foray into matchmaking lands with her senior citizens. And I adored watching her become friends with these elderly people. I also really liked how easily some of the matches were heterosexual and some homosexual.
I very much enjoyed this book, though I had one stumbling block–I honestly didn’t know if this was magical realism, or more of a metaphor-a way she described how she felt about the matchmaking. I haven’t read any of her other books so I didn’t know if she always wrote this way. It didn’t really make a difference to the story, but I genuinely couldn’t tell if this was set in a world where matchmakers legit saw strings, had strings, had strings cut, etc. (nothing else in the world indicated that it was a fantasy world.)
Very enjoyable and would definitely read more by Kim.