Score: 3.75/5 Bookmarks

Steam Level: 🍆🍆 /5

After reading Sunny Song Will Never Be Famous, I jumped at the chance to read So We Meet Again by Suzanne Park. A big thank you to Avon and Let’s Talk Books for my review copy.

Jess Kim moves back home to Tennessee and starts a Korean cooking (or more accurately, a prepared meal service hacks) channel on YouTube after being let go from her job in finance. As she's trying to find her way, and deal with her usually overbearing mom, Jess starts to fall for Daniel Choi. By day he's a lawyer, by night he's a video game streamer, and he gives Jess some tips to get her YouTube channel up and running, as well as helping her network her way into selling her sauces to a local grocery chain.

While filming her first cooking video Jessie's mom walks in and kind of steals the show. The video ends up going viral (I'm sensing a theme here with Sunny Song Will Never Be Famous). Jess gets an offer to buy her business and ends up face-to-face with the finance firm she recently left AND it turns out that Daniel Choi is involved in the buyout offer!

On the business side of things you have to suspend reality a bit, but this book was sweet and fun overall. The characters were enjoyable, but it did feel more like a new adult than an adult novel to me, just with their maturity levels and the decisions they made etc.

In terms of steaminess, there was a lot of build up and ‘almost’ moments where something would interrupt their alone time. At first it was amusing but it got to be a little much after the first couple of times they were interrupted.

The @lovearctually crew also got to zoom with the author which was super fun. I love learning more about the thought process behind the book and personal experiences that get woven into the story.

Is this one on your TBR yet?

Synopsis:

When investment banker Jessie Kim is laid off in a virtual meeting and then overhears why (“she’s already being overpaid anyway for a woman” and “Asians are worker bees, not someone who can drum up new deals”) she delivers an “eff you guys” speech and storms out.

After moving back home to Tennessee to live with her loving but meddling mother and father, she runs into her childhood nemesis - golden child Daniel Choi - at the local Asian grocery store. The smart, charming lawyer appears to have it all...while Jessie has nothing.

Jess begrudgingly accepts Daniel’s help to relaunch her long abandoned Korean cooking YouTube channel Hanguk Hacks, showcasing easy meal prep for busy professionals. But just as she discovers Daniel’s life isn’t as perfect as it seems and there’s more to him than meets the eye, he shows up for a life-changing business opportunity, and their rivalry is back on....