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Cute dogs!  Cute Hae-na!  Cute Hae-na’s family!  Cute couple!  Cha Eunwoo’s cute face! All the dogs deserve praise and of course the two main ones should be singled out for more doggy treats!  However, there was too much use of CGI and the dogs looked too fake in those moments. Park Gyu-young (Han Hae-na) is delightful in this and so is Cocoa, as well as Hae-na’s voiceovers when she is in dog form.  I think there is a template used for actresses people don’t like – it says that so-and-so will never be a good actress, she has only one facial expression the whole time and has no chemistry with the male lead.  I saw a couple of such comments about Gyu-young for this show, but I’ve seen almost exactly the same points made about Shin Se-kyung , Moon Ga-young , Nam Ji-hyun ,  Park Eun-bin  and Jo Bo-ah .  Gyu-young is not at the level of these other ladies but she's doing fine! Eunwoo (Seo-won) is the o...

“The book has a life of its own outside my control.” I had ask – How?  Why?  I wish there was at least a little spin on this.   It was interesting how Marie’s book  Sugar Flowers  becomes the centre of intrigue – a missing author and a near-miss when the book misses out on winning the Prix Goncourt award, a seeming playbook for murder that draws police to the publishing house.  I’m all for intrigue and that’s why I hoped for something more intriguing than it being nothing more than a coincidence that the men die in the same way as the characters of the book.  Sophie and the rest of the police characters weren’t needed, then?  (So why was she given such a major share of the plot, if she was merely part of the red herring?)  The revelation that Marie was the writer was also a bit of a let-down for me.   Violaine Lepage is interesting as the heroine of the story – such a tragic, colourful, strong personality....