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A review by tagoreketabkhane31
Heart and Seoul by Jen Frederick
5.0
This was such a good book! I appreciated, right off the bat, that Frederick had this book end on a cliffhanger (the second book comes out in January 2022) and for a romance book, even one that will be in a series, I appreciated that this was intentional. I believed that I was reading a K-Drama, because it contained the elements that I have come to see and love in the K-drams that I have seen in the past.
Right off the bat, this book stands out because of the #OwnVoices nature of story. Jen Frederick is a Korean adoptee, and her character is also a Korean adoptee who returns to Korea and find herself caught up in an act of destiny that can only be discovered in Seoul.
Hara Wilson is a Korean adoptee who lives in Iowa, and while she hasn't always felt disconnected from her adoptive family and home, it isn't until the funeral of her adoptive father Pat (along with the snide comments about her not being the "real" child) and an email from her birth father after conducting a DNA test enables her to take the trip to Korea to discover her family.
What happens in Seoul once her plan lands is nothing short of a K-Drama, and the ebb and flow that Frederick brings to the novel keep you engaged and reading. While this is def a romance, the mystery of finding the birth parents of Hara Wilson, while also balancing her dual identity as an American and Korean in Korea and everything else that is combined makes for an amazing novel and new adult romance debut for the author.
I highly recommend this, and I can't wait to get my hands on the sequel!
Right off the bat, this book stands out because of the #OwnVoices nature of story. Jen Frederick is a Korean adoptee, and her character is also a Korean adoptee who returns to Korea and find herself caught up in an act of destiny that can only be discovered in Seoul.
Hara Wilson is a Korean adoptee who lives in Iowa, and while she hasn't always felt disconnected from her adoptive family and home, it isn't until the funeral of her adoptive father Pat (along with the snide comments about her not being the "real" child) and an email from her birth father after conducting a DNA test enables her to take the trip to Korea to discover her family.
What happens in Seoul once her plan lands is nothing short of a K-Drama, and the ebb and flow that Frederick brings to the novel keep you engaged and reading. While this is def a romance, the mystery of finding the birth parents of Hara Wilson, while also balancing her dual identity as an American and Korean in Korea and everything else that is combined makes for an amazing novel and new adult romance debut for the author.
I highly recommend this, and I can't wait to get my hands on the sequel!