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Manhwa Monday: Spring Slump - Manga Bookshelf
Welcome to another Manhwa Monday! It's been a quiet week for manhwa, with just a couple of series stealing most of the focus from reviewers. I'll lead off with a review of my own, featuring YoungHee Lee's You're So Cool, complete in six volumes from Yen Press. This review is also my first guest spot at Brigid Alverson's MangaBlog, which is quite an honor for me. You're So Cool is a series that benefits greatly from being read straight-through, particularly in its first half. Though its heroine is spunky and adorable from the start, the romantic premise is so problematic, it would be easy to abandon just two volumes in. "Fortunately, midway through the series’ third volume, Lee forgets that she’s writing a hopelessly clichéd, emotionally-backwards romance and gets caught up in the real heart of the story: how people (especially families) shape each other, for better or worse."