Author: Park Hansol
Translated by: Choi Jin
Publisher: Avon, expected Jan 2027
Original title: 러브 알러지, 2023
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With outstanding beauty and a sharp, no-nonsense personality, she appears perfectly fine on the outside, but in truth she’s someone who avoids relationships, unable to trust either herself or others. Fleeing from a breakup with her boyfriend and family conflict, she escapes abroad to study. While searching for housing due to a dorm issue, Hwihyun ends up moving in as a housemate with Eden, who happens to take the same advertising class as her. During a meal with Eden, she suddenly suffers difficulty breathing and collapses. At the hospital, she’s given a diagnosis she’s never even heard of: “human allergy.” On top of that, in order to treat the allergy, she’s told she must undergo clinical trials together with the very allergen itself — Eden.
Allergic to Love is a healing novel about youth, forgiveness, and recovery — the love story of Hwihyun, an avoidant person who rejects intimate relationships, and Eden, a steady and warm-hearted man, as the two of them work to cure their “love allergy” and come to realize what true love really is.
Source: Kyobo bookstore blurb translated by Claude AI
The brief blurb on Amazon describes it as “the perfect grumpy sunshine romance for fans of Jenny Han.”