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A review by _abikewrites
K-Pop Confidential by Stephan Lee
Daebak!!!!!!
This book is awesome. This is my best read of Q2 2022. Seven star read. I really have to shout out to Goodreads for recommending Stephan Lee's book for AAPI month.
This book is great for fans of K-dramas K-Pop and well written YA novels.
The book revolves around Candace Park, a Korean American, with a lovely voice and huge dreams. Her parents are the most practical and staunch believers in the American dream.
"Umma’s drilled it into Tommy’s and my heads that there are only three, maybe four, respectable fields we can go into as adults: medicine, law, business, or academia—in that order. Being a singer is far down the list, probably between murderer and drug dealer."
Somehow, she breaks through to her parents, and they allow her to go to Seoul to become a K-Pop idol trainee, and man, it's as tough as Hunger Games sans the gore and bloodlust. It's standards of beauty, high expectations and soulless rigour that sucks all you have to give.
It's not just the intense exposé that makes this book amazeballs. It's the display of culture in a way that is just beautiful. I love the array of characters. It was like a K drama cast. Gosh!!!
Candace was a fun narrator.
Really, this book should be made into a movie ASAP. It's that awesome. It has a sequel and I'm off to read that next.
This book is awesome. This is my best read of Q2 2022. Seven star read. I really have to shout out to Goodreads for recommending Stephan Lee's book for AAPI month.
This book is great for fans of K-dramas K-Pop and well written YA novels.
The book revolves around Candace Park, a Korean American, with a lovely voice and huge dreams. Her parents are the most practical and staunch believers in the American dream.
"Umma’s drilled it into Tommy’s and my heads that there are only three, maybe four, respectable fields we can go into as adults: medicine, law, business, or academia—in that order. Being a singer is far down the list, probably between murderer and drug dealer."
Somehow, she breaks through to her parents, and they allow her to go to Seoul to become a K-Pop idol trainee, and man, it's as tough as Hunger Games sans the gore and bloodlust. It's standards of beauty, high expectations and soulless rigour that sucks all you have to give.
It's not just the intense exposé that makes this book amazeballs. It's the display of culture in a way that is just beautiful. I love the array of characters. It was like a K drama cast. Gosh!!!
Candace was a fun narrator.
Really, this book should be made into a movie ASAP. It's that awesome. It has a sequel and I'm off to read that next.