Clementine Chan is a girl who knows everything about tea. Besides her school work and work for the school paper, and her college applications, she runs a popular blog where she reviews tea shops under the pen name Hibiscus. She has a loyal group of followers, except for follower BobaBoy888, who leaves critical and not so nice comments on her blog posts. Clementine learns that a local strip mall is to be destroyed, and that Kale corporations has bought it to build chain stores there, she joins the Chinatown Cares community movement to try to stop Kale corporations.
Danny Mok works in the Chinatown tea shop of his parents after school. Besides school, he comments frequently on the blog of Hibiscus (as BobaBoy888) to comment on every review she writes of tea shop He hates change, so when his parents announces that someone from Kale Corporations has visited them with interest to buy the shop from them for a large sum of money, he hates the idea of the tea shop where he spend most of his live being gone forever maybe soon. He joins the Chinatown Cares community movement, to save the community they both love so much.
Together they are going through Chinatown to make as much people as possible sign their petition to save the community and the local shops. Clementine and Danny become friends, and later on, more then just friends. But then Clementine finds out that Danny is BobaBoy888, and they find out that all there hard work for the Chinatown community seems to be for nothing....
This is such a cute and sweet read, with a very fierce community sense as a red line through the book. I loved the two characters of Clementine and Danny. They where kind and both very realisticly portrayed, and both are characters you immediately like and relate to as a reader. I loved that they bonded, and fell in love in the end. The setting of the book, a Chinatown in a not further specified city (altough it felt like San Francisco's Chinatown). I loved the setting of Danny's parents tea shop, which has been there for decades, and seems to fall to prey to gentrification by the Kale Corporation. This also felt very realistic, as this is happening in many cities around the world, endangering mom and pop stores that truly serve the community.
I truly liked reading this entertaining YA novel with a fantastic and realistic storyline, and this is a book I truly recommend!!
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