by Maurene Goo
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Published: May 2019
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Genre: Romance, YA, Asian American, Korea
Hardback: 320
Rating: 5
First sentence(s):
When you have a face that's recognizable by an entire continent, you have zero room to make mistakes.
10 00 p.m.: Lucky is the biggest K-pop star on the scene, and she's just performed her hit song "Heartbeat" in Hong Kong to thousands of adoring fans. She's about to debut on The Tonight Show in America, hopefully a breakout performance for her career. But right now? She's in her fancy hotel, trying to fall asleep but dying for a hamburger.
11 00 p.m.: Jack is sneaking into a fancy hotel, on assignment for his tabloid job that he keeps secret from his parents. On his way out of the hotel, he runs into a girl wearing slippers, a girl who is single-mindedly determined to find a hamburger. She looks kind of familiar. She's very cute. He's maybe curious.
12:00 a.m.: Nothing will ever be the same.
My two-bits:
Loved the Kpop/Kdrama kind of romance in this story. I wanted to continue to hang out with this couple well after I closed the book.
Also loved escaping to Hong Kong for a day and experiencing the food, sights, passions of this duo.
Got me thinking of passion for pursuing an artist/creative life.
I was taken with the hamburger mentions.
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