The Comeback
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Lily Chu
For fans of The People We Meet on Vacation and everything K-Pop comes a hilarious and thoughtful story of fame, family, and love."Hilarious and relatable." —Talia Hibbert, USA Today bestselling author for The Stand-InAriadne Hui thrives on routine. So what if everything in her life is planned down to the minute: that's the way she likes it. If she's going to make partner in Toronto's most prestigious law firm, she needs to stay focused at all times.But when she comes home after yet another soul-sucking day to find an unfamiliar, gorgeous man camped out in her living room, focus is the last thing on her mind. Especially when her roommate explains this is Choi Jihoon, her cousin freshly arrived from Seoul to mend a broken heart. He just needs a few weeks to rest and heal; Ari will barely even know he's there. (Yeah, right.)Jihoon is kindness and chaos personified, and it isn't long before she's falling, hard. But when one wrong step leads to a shocking truth, Ari finds herself thrust onto the world stage: not as the competent, steely lawyer she's fought so hard to become, but as the mystery woman on the arm of a man the entire world claims to know. Now with her heart, her future, and her sense of self on the line, Ari will have to cut through all the pretty lies to find the truth of her relationship...and discover the Ariadne Hui she's finally ready to be.WHO IS ARIADNE HUI?Laser-focused lawyer climbing the corporate ladder"Perfect" daughter living her father's dreamShocking love interest of South Korea's hottest star
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Author
Lily Chu
Pages
400
Publisher
Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published Date
2023-05-09
ISBN
1728242665 9781728242668
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"Available on audible plus. This book got me into audio books! Great narration and a sweet romance! "
Halie V
"Really sweet read!"
Jennifer RobineRoberts
"Super cute book about a Peter getting immersed into the world of k pop. Very happy book overall"
J K
Jessica Krull
"I've gotten into the world of k-pop in the past 2-3 years so I was very interested when I read the description. So glad I decided to buy this book, it was a very cute read."
Vanesa Lopez
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Painfully boring. It took me two weeks to get through just a third of this book and I didn’t think once about extending my library borrowing period.
The premise of a hardworking lawyer navigating workplace politics while being thrust into K-Pop fame through her secretly famous boyfriend is a very promising premise. Except I never got past the exposition because the prose is so long-winded.
Lily Chu seems to take a “tell, don’t show” approach in which there is no creative or figurative language. When the character realizes she has a crush on her love interest, it is heartlessly announced as “I have a crush on him.” There’s just no art to the writing, just a plot being laid out bare in an entire four hundred pages. "
Cynthia Habib
"Very good Romance type book, it was a little slow at the start how many books are but then makes you keep reading at the end. I would recommend if you like Romance, and k-pop. "
Eloise Powers
"This was such a good read! I loved how it was immersive into kpop without being too much, and all the decisions Ari is faced when navigating her life could be such a relatable outlook. "
Jonae Etchebarren
"This was an okay read that's different from what I normally read. The fmc is a hardworking lawyer who is unsatisfied with her job, while mc is a K-pop star navigating taking a break from his career and bandmates. I wasn't expecting a book with K-pop themes, but I liked it. <br/><br/>The main characters were sometimes frustrating, especially when it came to communication and their relationship. But I did like the diversity and that the main characters were figuring out themselves, their careers, and family expectations. The romance was just there. They had cute moments though I wasn't as invested in them. My biggest issue was probably the length, but overall it was an okay read.<br/><br/>Thank you, Sourcebooks and Netgalley for this arc<br/><br/>3.5/5 ⭐<br/>"
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