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Somewhere Only We Know
by Maurene Goo
A light a fluffy read, this book is something you’d read when you want to get a little giddy over a cute romance.
As an Asian-Canadian, I love seeing reps of different Asian countries in literature. I’ve also been incredibly obsessed with Kpop and knew I’d fall in love with this book.
Although it wasn’t my favourite book of all time, it was a fun and cute read.
I love how they dive into the negative aspects of Kpop, and the Kpop industry (such as exhaustion, starvation - which I found so depressing to read. I mean, the main character literally snuck out of her room at night just to find food to eat.)
I found this a lot in reviews, but this book does have Americanized main characters (I mean, both main characters, although residing in Korea, were basically raised in America) and although it wasn’t much of a bothersome to me because there was a bit of the Korean culture in there, like certain words and phrases, I do wish both - or at least one character was born and raised in Korea.
Other than that, I really did enjoy it. And there were moments that did make me laugh.
As an Asian-Canadian, I love seeing reps of different Asian countries in literature. I’ve also been incredibly obsessed with Kpop and knew I’d fall in love with this book.
Although it wasn’t my favourite book of all time, it was a fun and cute read.
I love how they dive into the negative aspects of Kpop, and the Kpop industry (such as exhaustion, starvation - which I found so depressing to read. I mean, the main character literally snuck out of her room at night just to find food to eat.)
I found this a lot in reviews, but this book does have Americanized main characters (I mean, both main characters, although residing in Korea, were basically raised in America) and although it wasn’t much of a bothersome to me because there was a bit of the Korean culture in there, like certain words and phrases, I do wish both - or at least one character was born and raised in Korea.
Other than that, I really did enjoy it. And there were moments that did make me laugh.