Tales-of-a-bookworm23: The Anti-Fan and the Idol- Review and Excerpt!!

The Anti-Fan and the Idol, an all-new spicy, must-read My Summer In Seoul novella from New York Times best selling author Rachel Van Dyken and 1,001 Dark Nights, is available now!

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Make it or break it...

Or maybe just break them?

Ai-Ri has been training under YK Management in Korea for two years without any results. She doesn’t fit the typical mold for a successful K-POP idol image, literally down to her blood type. She has six more months before college entrance exams which means she only has six months to make it as an idol before her dreams are crushed.

Things take a turn when two of the most famous male idols break away from their group and decide to form their own co-ed group, a rarity.

And wonder of all wonders, they need one more girl.

It would be the perfect opportunity, except she hates them.

They are arrogant, entitled, rich little snobs who want the world to worship the ground they walk on. To make matters worse, the only reason they came to her was because they are desperate, which means she needs to prove herself even more.

Tempers and personalities collide when she’s forced to either accept the position or give up on her dream.

But what happens when you suddenly go from anti-fan and enemy number one to stuck in a love triangle between two boys you were born to hate but are somehow falling in love with? And will the group survive the heartbreak that follows when she finally makes her choice?

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My Review:
My Rating: 3.5 Stars

Ai-Ri has been training and trying to make it as a K-pop star for two years, however she isn't the typical K-POP trainee. Her parents have given her 6 more months to make it before she has to try a different path. Ai-Ri's enemy Haneul and his best friend Ryan have an idea to form a co-ed group and need another girl and they ask Ai-Ri. Knowing that Ryan and Hanuel were in a famous K-POP band and knowing her time is running out Ai-Ri decides to try it out. Now Ai-Ri is working with both boys and tempers are flaring, but truths are also starting to come out. What happens when you start liking your enemy?

Honestly, I don't follow K-POP or know much about it except from what I read from Rachel's "My Summer in Seoul." If you follow K-POP you will understand everything that happens to Ai-Ri in this book, however, if you are new to K-POP I would recommend reading My Summer in Seoul to fully understand what it means to be a K-POP star. Even if you do know K-POP I would recommend the book too because I just love Rachel's writing. This novella could definitely be read as a standalone as there's just one recurring character. I love how Rachel brings the world and characters she creates alive and I loved reading about Ai-Ri and the guy she chooses. If you are looking for a short, enemies to lovers, little bit of angst and a lot of heart in the writing this is the book for you this summer.

Keep reading for a look inside The Anti-Fan and the Idol!

We both start to sing the chorus, and then she breaks apart from me and takes the higher harmony.

It sounds how I imagined it would, and I want to keep going because it feels good being in here with her, so I motion for her to keep singing her part.

She does it flawlessly.

We hit the chorus again before it goes into my rap line. I get lost in the words.

Music always has a way of distracting me. The chorus pops up again.

Ah-Ri joins in and starts to dance a bit next to me.

I smile and keep singing.

We do four more takes, all of them perfect yet slightly different. By the time we finish the last one, I have so much adrenaline pumping through my system that I could record all day.

She pulls off her headphones and holds up her hand.

I make a fist and punch it lightly.

Ah-Ri throws her head back and laughs. “I guess I deserved that.”

“You really did.” I smirk, then hold up my other hand. “One last chance?”

She sets her headphones on the stand, moves in front of me, and then slowly presses her palm against mine.

Instinct takes over. My fingers slide into hers. Her smile falters as she stares at our joined hands. “Looks like our palms like a seriously long kiss.”

“A lingering kiss,” I tease, licking my lips.

“Lingering, huh?” Her eyes focus on my mouth.

This is a bad idea, my brain screams. Do not fall for your bandmate, the very one you could hate later or have to see on tour every day. In the history of bad ideas, this would be the worst.

Slowly, I pull my hand away from hers.

It falls empty at my side.

It doesn’t hurt, but it doesn’t feel good, either.

It feels like she’s missing when she’s standing right in front of me.

She stares down at her hand, then over at mine before slowly grabbing it again and pressing a kiss to my palm.

Her lips burn a hole through my skin. They create a memory with zero effort, one I’ll never escape from unless someone chops off my hand.

“You guys alive in there?” Haneul’s voice comes through the sound system. I jerk away from Ah-Ri, look through the glass, and leave the booth.

It was a moment of temporary insanity, brought on by high emotions, close proximity, and touching.

No more high-fives.

No more palm kissing.

Am I a toddler or something?

I wipe my hands on my black sweats and casually run a hand through my hair as I walk toward Haneul. Jisoo is in the corner on her phone.

Haneul smirks like he caught me making out.

It was just our hands.

About Rachel Van Dyken

Rachel Van Dyken is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestselling author of regency and contemporary romances. When she's not writing you can find her drinking coffee at Starbucks and plotting her next book while watching The Bachelor.

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