Somewhere Only We Know by Maurene Goo, 326 pages. Farrar
Straus Giroux (Macmillan), 2019. $18.
Content: Language: PG-13 (59 swears); Mature
Content: PG; Violence: G.
BUYING
ADVISORY: MS, HS – OPTIONAL
AUDIENCE
APPEAL: AVERAGE
16yo K-Pop star Lucky is rising in popularity, but losing her connection to her
audience and her music. 18yo Jack knows he wants to pursue photography, but his family is pressuring him into
banking. Jack takes side jobs of taking
tabloid-worthy pictures of popular people, so when Lucky gets lost evading her
bodyguards in pursuit of a hamburger, Jack sees a story. Jack persuades Lucky to spend the day with
him and he will show her Hong Kong, but what he doesn’t expect is to fall for
Lucky.
This teen romance explores the
idea of following your dreams and respecting others. Jack and Lucky had good banter, but there
isn’t much action going on. They move
from one location to another throughout the book, with the predictable conflict
of Lucky finding out Jack’s motives hanging over them. Cute romance, but nothing new.
Reviewer, C. Peterson
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