My Shameless Fan Casting of And Break the Pretty Kings (English edition)

KRYSTAL JUNG as Mirae JAMIE CHUNG as Captain Jia KI HONG LEE as Minho CHOI WOO SHIK as Siwon PARK BO GUM as Kimoon LANCE LIM as Hongbin AUBREY ANDERSON-EMMONS as Yoonhee MEGAN LEE as Jisoo ASHLEY PARK as Areum JIHAE as Suhee DANIEL HENNEY as The Villain PATRICIA JA LEE as Mirae’s Mother SUNGContinue reading “My Shameless Fan Casting of And Break the Pretty Kings (English edition)”

The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea: Green Frog Reviews

The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh is a NYT Bestselling retelling of a traditional Korean folktale. Full of charm, romance, and the whimsy of a Studio Ghibli film, it’s easy to see why Oh calls this gorgeous, feminist tale “the book of [her] heart.” Summary: Deadly storms have ravaged Mina’s homelandContinue reading “The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea: Green Frog Reviews”

Kingdom of the Blazing Phoenix: Green Frog Reviews

Kingdom of the Blazing Phoenix is the sequel to Forest of a Thousand Lanterns, completing this duology by Julie C. Dao, whose masterful retelling of Snow White is inspired by East Asian mythology. The first installment followed the rise of the Evil Empress Xifeng, cunning and beautiful, while the sequel shows the empowering journey ofContinue reading “Kingdom of the Blazing Phoenix: Green Frog Reviews”

The Green Frog Blog: An Introduction

There’s a story my mother used to tell me about a disobedient green frog. No matter what his mother told him to do, he would always end up doing the opposite. Because of this, on her deathbed the mother frog tried to outwit her contrarian son by telling him to bury her body in theContinue reading “The Green Frog Blog: An Introduction”