My Summer In Seoul by Rachel Van Dyken is now live!
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Rachel Van Dyken comes a standalone new adult romance set in the competitive world of K-pop.
BLURB:
It's not all K-dramas and happily ever afters.
Intern with Korea's number one record label? Yes, please.
Find out there's a huge scandal I need to help "manage"... not so much.
Add in the fact that I don't recognize the "superstars" of the label and think they're interns...
And my dream job quickly becomes more of a nightmare.
But I'm in Seoul, the one place that is beginning to feel more and more like home...
Except it isn't home, and the drama surrounding the biggest K-pop group in the world, SWT, is consuming my every moment.
Spoiler alert. They hate me.
Everything I do is wrong: wrong clothes, wrong honorifics, wrong manners.
Till the leader of SWT takes pity on me.
But pity is dangerous when it comes from someone as beautiful as him.
Every SWT member is gorgeous, perfect, and cultivated to be an idol... lethal to a girl's heart.
And sanity.
But fame plus a perfect face and voice don't equal an easy life. As their comeback nears, the stakes rise higher.
Suicide watch...
Angry fans...
Threats...
All I want to do is survive.
But the price for survival might mean losing my heart.
And like a character in a K-drama, I'm not sure if there will be an actual happily ever after...
Or simply a lesson learned.
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My Review:
My Rating: 4 Stars
Let me preface this by saying I knew nothing about K-pop before I started this book, however I usually love Rachel's books and she's been super excited by this project for a long time. So when I got the chance to get an arc of this book I didn't hesitate to request. Grace Lee is planning a different type of Summer when her Uncle in South Korea grants her an opportunity as an Intern for his production company. Grace accepts considering she studies production in the States, except the Rockstar's or idols as they are called in South Korea are vastly different than in the United States. There is less freedom, more pressure and more grooming to become an idol because not everyone has the moves and voice and persona to be an idol. There is even a type of schooling to see if you could make it as an idol! Grace steps off the plane not knowing Korean or many of their customs and has to try to navigate a whole new world. Grace ends up working with SWT, the biggest K-pop group around. She has a lot to learn and not a lot of time to do it. As she spends more time with the group she and the reader learn about the different pressures and aspects of K-pop and it's not as fun as it may seem at first.
I'm not going to go too much into the romantic relationship because while at times it almost seems a little love triangleish it is not. Grace only truly feels romantic feelings for one guy in the group. I love how they all become a family. This book does talk about sensitive issues, but does so in a way that if someone you know or you yourself are facing depression there is no shame in talking to someone about it. I did like that Rachel really brought in her mental health background with this story. The reason why I am only rating it 4 stars is that for some reason the first part of the book took me a little bit of time to get into, but once I did the pages flew. I can't wait to see the other guys get their happily ever after.
Meet Rachel
Rachel Van Dyken is the #1 New York Times Bestselling, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of over 90 books ranging from contemporary romance to paranormal. With over four million copies sold, she's been featured in Forbes, US Weekly, and USA Today. Her books have been translated in more than 15 countries. She was one of the first romance authors to have a Kindle in Motion book through Amazon publishing and continues to strive to be on the cutting edge of the reader experience. She keeps her home in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, adorable sons, naked cat, and two dogs. For more information about her books and upcoming events, visit www.RachelVanDykenauthor.com
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