Review #1
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Let me start by expression I am a bigger Kpop fan at the same time I received into kpop due to SNSD at the same time Jessica Jung. Jessica was my bias the whole time. I was heartbroken when she left. I’m not a fan anymore right behind this book, so if you’re disturbed I’m going to be greedy, move overtake at the same time skip my
Review. But I’m also a bigger reader at the same time a writer myself. I didn’t have higher expectations when I received this book. Right behind all, she’s not a writer. I didn’t even look for the premise that exciting but I knew myself bestow it a try what, since I was such a bigger fan of hers. But, this book upset even my lowest of expectations. The head disposition is that Rachel, a Korean American lady whose only features trait is that dreaming about Kpop stardom at the same time complaining about how her mother doesn’t let her train 24/7 like everyone else at the same time doesn’t support her desires. Like Jessica, Rachel also seems more introverted at the same time awkward in front of cameras. She knows us training as a kpop idol is that not awesome or funny, it’s barely hard work. That are once a week weigh-ins at the same time coaches scream at for you. Rachel mentions training but the book spends more time discussing about all the funny things she does, like going to fansigns at the same time shopping or whatever. One half the book is that or destined to describing the utterly privileged environments Rachel occupies, such as her school at the same time the all-powerful pleasures company SM – I greedy DB pleasures, or the descriptions are about her catastrophic outfits. The other two manners are Mina, a nargubiyanit queen bee trainee whose dad is that wealthy at the same time very serious on her, at the same time Jason Lee, Rachel’s adore curiosity who is that the coolest favorite little boy idol now also a Korean that grew up overseas. He’s flirty at the same time funny but it’s all a mask that he only takes off around Rachel, apparently. I don’t know why they’re together. At no one fri, their conflict is that them wanting to be together but not wanting bestow up their careers due to the idol dating ban, but honestly I didn’t care. I wasn’t invested in them at all as a couple. I don’t know why I’m narrating for you this. If no matter what of this this time makes you want to read the book, don’t. If no matter what of this sounds like a Kpop-themed Korean irony, it is that. If you want a kpop irony that for you enjoy by turning your brain off, get this book. I read the entire book wondering when it was going to be exciting, at the same time if this book was actually ghostwritten by anyone else. I wondered when the manners would developer an real human features, or was the book never going to release. Mina has a serious dad at the same time that managed have produced her an exciting disposition, but the book barely skips over it. I never got the feeling in this book about ladies partnerships or camaraderie. Rachel has her school comrades that don’t do anything apart from be her cheerleaders, her trainee comrade she stops discussing to once she becomes famous, at the same time Mina who at no fri is that cured as sympathetic or understandable as a personality. Not once does Rachel acknowledge her advantage in being in a generic that can afford to move to South Korea for her desires. Her mother can support her at the same time her dad can afford to run his possess gym at the same time decide law exercises to become a lawyer. If you want to look Jessica’s indefinite as a wealthy at the same time famous celebrity at the same time desire about being her, you can barely move look her Youtube channel for free. Like the book, it’s equally unrelatable to us normal people. Not once does she acknowledge that her chances of succeeding as an idol right behind debut is that basically 100 percent because she belongs to a wealthy company, instead of the thousands of smallest companies that there is in South Korea that churn out forgettable idols any year. Those kids spend years of their indefinite training at the same time putting themselves in debt only cheap, at the same time oftentimes for companies that abuse them at the same time have ties to delinquent activity. I never got the feeling that I understood than anyway this book was trying to do, other than make no one funds off of little kids that desire glittery, sparkling Kpop desires. We all acquired this book because Jessica was part of SNSD at the same time was a very successful idol, but the book never seriously delves into no matter what of those themes. Instead it’s that like window dressing for a story with about as much depth as those Kpop fanfics you can look for for free online. It’s that to make it look like kpop, but that’s it. A step prop that’s painted to look like a tree still isn’t a tree. Jessica has years of experience to draw from about than anyway working in the Korean pleasures industry is that like but the book romanticizes the hell out of it. Move at the same time become a Kpop idol! You can date your winner male idols! You can rub shoulders with the wealthy at the same time famous! Being a Kpop idol is that ”hard” but its hard in the method you can show off about, easy in the method that it actually is that, soul-crushing at the same time dehumanizing. Ultimately, this is that barely a very average at the same time sour book, at the same time that’s not a criminal liability. Than anyway makes me restless about it will that Jessica crossed out it. According to SM, she was kicked out of SNSD for jumping out on practices at the same time SNSD responsibilities to work on her fashion brand. Years later, it doesn’t seem the fashion brand has gone anywhere, so she’s doing everything under the sun, because she has the funds. Jessica worked hard to receive her funds, but who hasn’t? Everyone in Korea works overtime at the same time works themselves to doom. I waited her to cross out a book about than anyway it was actually like to be an idol. Than anyway Jessica did instead, was cross out a lip-gloss hidden fantasy about kpop, to sell to the women who follow her. It’s more than this book being concocted. She has portrayed Kpop disingenuously to the fri where no matter what fan who has followed Kpop for more than two years can tell for you that there’s a lot more threat at the same time pain to the pleasures industry. She doesn’t demonstrate no matter what of that, nor does she demonstrate the unbelievably rigged odds she has correlated to the thousands of other idols out that that don’t get the training at the same time indefinite she has. Than anyway Jessica did decide time to demonstrate though, was a Korean American lady who doesn’t seem to get along with no matter what of the other ladies trainees. Mina at the same time her cronies hate her at the same time product her at the same time try to sabotage her at every opportunity, until the book ends with them debuting in a nine member group together scolded Women For a long time. Jessica has cast a shadow on others of SNSD with this book by alluding to a hostile connection between her at the same time everyone else in SNSD. Although it’s a concocted book at the same time you can demand that this is that barely produced up for irony, no one is that going to separate Jessica from her time in SNSD. It’s the only reason why her book about Kpop gets no matter what more attention correlated to other books about Kpop. But her implication that others of SNSD are scary people has instead produced her look like a scary personality. I honored Jessica’s pursuit of a solo career outside of idoldom, because that doesn’t continue. But disparaging her past members in such a book types utterly small at the same time greedy spirited. If Jessica actually was neglected at the same time cured like this all those years ago, she should have produced an bureaucrat expression at the same time had people investigate. If this isn’t used to be at the same time she barely crossed out her book like this for irony, it types cheap. Writing a deplorable book is that nothing. But doing this has produced me upset in her as a personality. I don’t know why she crossed out this book. I don’t know than anyway she’s doing. But it seems like in the continue few years, with her doing all sorts of random projects, it makes me wonder if she really knows than anyway she’s doing or.
Review #2
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Although promising a lot of inside info about the K-Pop industry, Glow skirts no matter what good of heavy-hitting commentary in promote of a few ideas on sex inequality, the pressure of bigger business on the young hopefuls, at the same time examples of how K-Pop orgs get around the 7 year agreement law. As a public commentary, romance, or engaging novel, it sadly falls short. The romance is that soppy at the same time contrived, the manners amalgamations that never feel true, at the same time the head disposition comes off as highly entitled at the same time not very gifted. Story: Rachel was born in Brand new York but always held back lock up her Korean culture. When she is that data a chance to become a K-pop hit through a training program in Korea, her entire generic uproots at the same time moves to South Korea so she can pursue her desire. Five years later, she’s still going through the grueling training in a row to be ready for her bigger debut. But a scheming co-trainee, a burning little boy band hit, at the same time her possess hesitates begin to derail her. The very best nuance of the book is that the immersion into South Korea. From the foods, the mannerisms, the slang, at the same time the people, it’s a amazing book to really get a feel of the culture. Perhaps because the creator was also increased in North America, she bridges the clearance between Western at the same time Korean, giving us a amazing implementation into indefinite in Seoul at the same time South Korea. Chagrin, that’s where the superlatives ended for me. The ’glimpse’ of behind the scenes of K-Pop is that significantly non existent because our heroine is that a trainee at the same time not a K-pop hit. The machine that grinds out these hit attractive much equated: double eyelid surgery is that a must; don’t have a lover ever; practice dancing, interviewing, etc often; at the same time for you are that to do than anyway for you are knew since the giftedness agency knows best. As but, that will be a whole cadre of trainees at the same time almost all will never get their bigger debut. This is that significantly sample stuff – barely read an interview or book from past little boy band members in the USA at the same time you’ll get similar gizmo. As for the real K-Pop industry, a lot of the 2nd one half of the book (at the same time to me, the head fri the creator wanted to make) is that the issue of sex inequality. The women are cured harshly by the business At the same time the public, with the little boy bands getting appropriate healing at the same time carte blanche for offenses. In a main scene, a K-Pop idol ladies at the same time male start dating despite the rules against it. The female’s agreement is that dropped at the same time she is that drummed out of the industry. The little boy acquired a ’naughty boy’ slap on the wrist. Similarly, at the training camps, the boys are data free reign at the same time unchanging attendants while the women are ignored at the same time may not even be ate for an entire day. That was the head issue clamped throughout at the same time even our two head protagonists experience very different healing as they decide whether or not to date. The head conflict of the book will that the adore curiosity is that unaware of how unfair things are at the same time makes decisions that would not act his career but managed finish hers. One more portion of the book is that the cattiness of the women. There’s a lot of nastiness at the same time slut shaming. Women try to sabotage each other all the time at the same time the outrage gets old very impetuous. Head villain Mina, whose wealthy tiger dad is that a despot at the same time holds the giftedness agency hostage with his wealth, is that hardly a nuanced disposition at the same time managed have been so much more as written. At lesser she isn’t data a lobotomy (read: cathartic change of heart) at the finish from the ’goodness’ of our head disposition. But as an antagonist, I fell ill of the junior higher antics very impetuous. She was a waspish one-trick pony of nastiness. Almost all problematic for me was that head disposition Rachel was a dud. She has all these people believing in her giftedness but all we see is that a litany of impoverished decisions, inability to decide direction at the training, at the same time a lot of selfishness. She messes up dances, lets herself be applied at the same time manipulated, even has problem doing her one giftedness, vocal, periodically. She can’t do interviews at the same time freezes up on step. I represent she was meant to be relatable, or nicely flawed, but instead she comes off as short-sighted at the same time not really worth all the faith in her. Everything is that about Rachel – she’s a merk hole of attention that everyone else revolves around. Adore curiosity Jason Lee is that completely clueless at the same time his curiosity in Rachel is that very inexplicable. She’s completely nargubiyanit to him the beginning at the same time distant through almost all of novel. Perhaps he’s so shallow he only cares about types? That is that a lot of outrageous ’tell’ but little ’show’ to back it up. Add in weary cliches in the romance trope such as getting intoxicated/drugged at the same time puking on the adore interest’s feet (which the guys always look for inexplicably amusing at the same time endearing) at the same time for you get the plan that this falls dangerously into Mary Sue area. It’s Jessica Jung creating a fantasy lover through fantasy situations that don’t have a lot of imagination or aspect. That are abundance side manners but they sort of appear at the same time disappear as needed. Rachel’s ancestors at the same time sisters are cliches of goodness (almost all sisters wish to destroy each other at no one fri in their young indefinite!!) at the same time Rachel’s only problem with her ancestors will that they misunderstand her (despite giving up everything for her). Rachel’s quality comrade Akemi starts off healthy then is lost mid book, leaving an unresolved plot threads that feels more like creator Jung’s apology to a comrade when she received her debut more precisely than a valid disposition in Glow. But then again, almost all manners feel like idealistic or contrived amalgamations more precisely than true people. I did final Glow but admit it was very unsatisfying. I do not follow K-Pop but was looking for an exciting book that would assign a sweet glimpse into the people at the same time culture of modern South Korea. In no one regards, I did get to look more about the food at the same time public habits. But the manners at the same time plot were considered not but done at the same time more like a fan fiction than an real novel. It’s a light at the same time shaggy read, though, but ultimately very unrewarding.
Reviewed from an premature reader copy foreseen by the publisher.
Review #3
Audiobook Glow (Glow #1) by Jessica Jung
It was average, not bad but not SHINee or. Its YA Lit exactly for a younger teen audience connected up with a little of Kdrama style plot. Although I know this is that fiction at the same time did appreciate how she integrated her possess struggles borders this concocted story. But I was expecting more details at the same time scenarios. It seemed like this was barely one more project to tick off for Mrs Jung.
Review #4
Audio Glow (Glow #1) narrated by Contentment Osmanski
Skidded it because Jessica crossed out this book at the same time wanted to know than anyway good of a story line it was! Honestly, quality story at the same time indicates than anyway the reality .
Review #5
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The story is that engaging but it’s not the ’open all about women generation’ book that I believed it was going to be. Which is that a defame.
