{"id":11752,"date":"2020-09-30T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=11752"},"modified":"2020-09-30T09:34:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T14:34:02","slug":"will-she-shine-as-k-pop-star-by-jessica-jung-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=11752","title":{"rendered":"Will she SHINE as K-pop star? by Jessica Jung (book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Not Korean enough in Seoul,
not American enough in New York City –
does she have enough to make it as a star?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her family’s support of Rachel’s quest to become a K-pop performer is both a comfort and a cage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Umma, Appa, and her little sister left behind their lives in New York City six years ago when they moved to Seoul so she could train with DB Studios<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the 17 year old must live at home instead at DB’s trainee house, attending school full-time, then cramming all rehearsals and lessons<\/a> into the weekends\u2026and doing her homework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No boys, no social media, weekly weigh-ins – competition is fierce as DB plans to announce its new girl group soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amid mounting pressures to excel in singing, dancing, interviewing skills, and poise, snooty heiress Mina leads her crew in harassing Rachel as a camera-shy American princess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rachel’s chance encounter with Jason Lee, internationally famous Korean-Canadian star of DB’s hit boy group, leads to an opportunity to perform with him – can she beat out Mina?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Romantic relationships are forbidden by DB Studios – is her friendship with Jason okay?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One poor decision makes Rachel’s mother furious and disappointed – will the huge disruption of her family’s lives be for nothing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Written by former K-pop star Jessica Jung, this debut novel takes us behind the glitz of costumes, choreography, and luxury travel to the grind, sweat, and tears of the K-pop studios’ trainee system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read chapter one here<\/a>, courtesy of the publisher, to meet Rachel, Mina, and the DB trainees striving for the chance to Shine<\/em> on the international music scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How far would you travel to pursue your dream?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info<\/strong>: Shine \/ Jessica Jung. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2020. [author interview<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher through Edelweiss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not Korean enough in Seoul, not American enough in New York City – does she have enough to make it as a star? Her family’s support of Rachel’s quest to become a K-pop performer is both a comfort and a cage. Umma, Appa, and her little sister left behind their lives in New York City […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,19],"tags":[90,22,4,92,11,45,5,113,16,18,40,43,315,39,184,86,186,330,21,57,297,35,33,3,6,8],"class_list":["post-11752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-canada","tag-communication","tag-competition","tag-coping","tag-dance","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-growing-up","tag-korean-american","tag-love","tag-mothers","tag-music","tag-new-york","tag-ownvoices","tag-self-image","tag-sisters","tag-south-korea","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-teens","tag-travel","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11752"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11758,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11752\/revisions\/11758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}