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Pun Bandhu
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Kelsey Navarro
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Rachel Van Dyken
About this listen
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Rachel Van Dyken comes a standalone new adult romance set in the competitive world of K-pop.
It’s not all K-dramas and happily ever afters.
Intern with Korea’s number one record label? Yes, please.
Find out there’s a huge scandal I need to help “manage” … not so much.
Add in the fact that I don’t recognize the “superstars” of the label and think they’re interns …
And my dream job quickly becomes more of a nightmare.
But I’m in Seoul, the one place that is beginning to feel more and more like home …
Except it isn’t home, and the drama surrounding the biggest K-pop group in the world, SWT, is consuming my every moment.
Spoiler alert. They hate me.
Everything I do is wrong: wrong clothes, wrong honorifics, wrong manners.
Till the leader of SWT takes pity on me.
But pity is dangerous when it comes from someone as beautiful as him.
Every SWT member is gorgeous, perfect, and cultivated to be an idol … lethal to a girl’s heart.
And sanity.
But fame plus a perfect face and voice don’t equal an easy life. As their comeback nears, the stakes rise higher.
Suicide watch …
Angry fans …
Threats …
All I want to do is survive.
But the price for survival might mean losing my heart.
And like a character in a K-drama, I’m not sure if there will be an actual happily ever after …
Or simply a lesson learned.
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-02-24
Thrilling, wholesome romance!
I very much enjoyed this venture into the KPOP world. As a KPOP fan myself, I felt it stayed true to the experience of idols. It was sexy but not raunchy, playful but not pandering. Overall, a well crafted romance with lovely tension and the sweetness of a KDrama.
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- PeeJ
- 11-20-23
Love Kpop
Great story about the difficulties of Kpop and what performers go through with crazy fans. A little unbelievable that a non Korean speaking American would have been hired and that fans at the end were accepting of a relationship. Narration was just ok, a little whiny sounding.
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- Ashley Hedden
- 01-27-23
Great Read
My Summer in Seoul (My Summer in Seoul #1) was a great read by Rachel Van Dyken. Grace finds herself as an intern with Korea's number one record label. Unfortunately there is a huge scandal that she needs to help manage. Her dream job quickly becomes a nightmare. Unfortunately the drama surrounding the biggest K-pop group in the world, SWT, is consuming her whole life. As their comeback looms closer, the stakes get a lot higher. There is suicide watch, angry fans, and threats. I enjoyed reading this book and can't wait to read more by the author.
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- Miller
- 10-23-24
Summer in Seoul
This book was a great read! I love it! The audio narrators were perfect. The emotion behind every word they spoke made me feel as if I were there in Seoul. And as if I really knew Grace and the band SWT! 😊🥰🔥
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- Monique Camp
- 06-17-23
So Good
I really enjoyed this book. The love story is cute. I also appreciated the realistic and unreasonable expectations for many K-pop idles. As a fan, knowing this is one thing, but hearing at first a person account really hit my heart. great book and story.
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- Mary Avery
- 09-27-22
Welcome (Back) to KPOP / KDRAMA
Whether you are a regular reader or new to it, I highly recommend this book and Audio. I even sent it to coworkers and family/friends to take a listen to. This is my first for the author and KPOP/ KDRAMA and I loved it!
The fluidity of emotions were smooth and realistic, the main characters were ones I could imagine as myself or those around me, and I can’t count how many times I laughed. Even passing my headphones to my husband so he could join in on the fun. What an absolute intro this world, and it’s characters. The slow build of each person helped you create a full being in your head like you were watching a real show. Can’t wait for the next book (sitting on my counter now).
If you find yourself too busy to read just do audiobooks. Recommended to many by my bff, the voice actors on this were great and were able create those different accents, tones and variations for multi-person convos. Truly fun, and saved me for a midnight multi-hr drive.
10/10 read for me, and no I was not paid haha.
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- Bonnie
- 06-11-24
great south Korean story
loved listening to this story. followed k-drama formula pretty well.
was a little fan fetched, but so are most k-dramas. so all good.
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-28-23
Sweet❤️
A great loving, tender, HOT sexy love story.
A MUST listen!
Enjoyed all it. ❤️
So sweet !
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- Ann ferguson
- 02-18-24
Good job!
It was a Good story. I enjoyed the band mates personalities. Especially Sookie. The readers did a good job.
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- PW
- 11-03-23
Fun story for K-pop fans
The female reader did a great job…The male reader’s usage of an accent when portraying a character was just plain irritating because it was not believable. Fortunately, the majority of the story did not include the accented character.
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