My Summer In Seoul

My Summer In Seoul

2021 • 478 pages

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 I won this book in a Goodreads giveaway last April.
I wish I could say I loved this book because it's about one of my favorite things in the world: K-pop. But I didn't like Grace at all. She was so annoying and immature. And (OMG!) she was so unprofessional. I cannot believe she would get the chance of a lifetime and then show up so unprepared. And it's fine that she didn't know the industry, but why didn't she research it before showing up for work? She didn't research the company she was going to work for. She didn't research their artists. What is wrong with her????
And let's not start on how unrealistic it is that the company would trust the most popular K-pop group to an intern. An intern that is constantly messing everything up. Not even if her uncle was the CEO. If SWT were as big as the book wants us to believe they were, they would probably have more than one manager.
I'm not even going to talk about the ending because by that time we had already passed absurd.
This book was clearly written by someone who recently discovered K-pop but really doesn't know the industry. It's obvious that she did research but then, wanted to include absolutely everything, whether it made sense or not in the story. That's why there are so many random facts just thrown at us throughout the book. It was very distracting.

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