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Heart and Seoul

By: Jen Frederick
Narrated by: Greta Jung
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One woman learns that the price of belonging is often steeper than expected in this heart-wrenching yet hopeful romantic novel and first in the Seoul duology by USA Today bestselling author Jen Frederick.

As a Korean adoptee, Hara Wilson doesn’t need anyone telling her she looks different from her white parents. She knows. Every time Hara looks in the mirror, she’s reminded that she doesn’t look like anyone else in her family - not her loving mother, Ellen; not her jerk of a father, Pat; and certainly not like Pat’s new wife and new “real” son.

At the age of 25, she thought she had come to terms with it all, but when her father suddenly dies, an offhand comment at his funeral triggers an identity crisis that has her running off to Seoul in search of her roots.

What Hara finds there has all the makings of a classic K-drama: a tall, mysterious stranger who greets her at the airport, spontaneous adventures across the city, and a mess of familial ties, along with a red string of destiny that winds its way around her, heart and soul. Hara goes to Korea looking for answers, but what she gets instead is love - a forbidden love that will either welcome Hara home...or destroy her chance of finding one.

©2020 Jen Frederick (P)2021 Penguin Audio Contemporary Multicultural Women's Fiction
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"With this charming contemporary, Frederick (Bombshell) delivers a dramatic love story while sensitively exploring the thorny issue of interracial adoption.... Fans and new readers alike will be hooked on this page-turning tale." (Publishers Weekly)
Engaging Storyline • Emotional Journey • Authentic Korean Pronunciation • Cultural Exploration • Plot Twists

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Her step brother is her love interest? Too much was repeatedly said. There's already an understanding of how she felt, but there was too many times that it was repeated. I was depressed by the time the end came. The way it ended was not a cliffhanger, it was more like an oh well, more tragedy to come. I did like that some of it was like a K-Drama, it just had too many twisted turns.

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The wording is pretty repetitive and some impossible/unexplained things happen like someone losing their phone then using a translation app on the lost phone soon after. But if you are not bothered by things like this, or bothered by a lot of issues caused by rash emotion-based decisions, it’s not a bad story. There are a few nice plot twists.

Could have used more editing

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The story was okay, though I didn’t realize it wasn’t a fully complete story so I wasn’t expecting to look for a part two. While I thought the Korean language and pronunciation was great, the narrator was very flat throughout, and I didn’t feel any emotion in her voice through the story. It was almost like having an AI voice read the text aloud.

The narration left something to be desired

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Please tell me there’s a second book of this cuz I just…. That ending dude! I WANNA KNOW WHAT HAPPENS TO THE TWO MAIN CHARACTERS!!!! Ughhhhh, besides that, it’s a really entertaining story and it was performed really well.

IS THERE A SECOND BOOK?!

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I enjoyed learning the customs and a few words of Korean sprinkled throughout the book. Narration was good, the Korean pronunciation authentic, and the storyline was enjoyable. The author kept the ending open for a follow up book. I prefer books that have closure one way or another…That is why I gave the book only four stars.

Learned as I read

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