margardenlady 's review for:

Snowglobe by Soyoung Park

4.5

dark emotional funny medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Dystopia. Doppelgängers. Climate change. Reality TV.  All of these play a major role in this creative imagining of a future world that is bitterly cold, except within the snow globe.  The globe, is a man made environment, with weather modulated on live stream broadcast by  a lottery-like drawing of weather characteristics for the coming day. The person responsible for these drawings is the weather reporter. This prized position is filled by Goh Haeri, a young actress whose entire life has been documented on the snow globe's live stream. Then tragedy hits.  Haeri dies and a young girl from outside the globe who happens to look identical to her is secretly asked to take her place. Then the plot thickens deliciously.