This Place is Home

by Irene Te

402 pages, Paperback

Published November 11, 2025

Reviews

[Sulagna]

This Place Is Home by Irene Te is a beautiful and apt sequel to This Place Is Magic where it follows the blossoming love between Eunjae— one of the many members in the Kpop boy group Apollo and Jiyeon— an once aspiring hair stylist and now the guiding star who gave Eunjae to stand up to the injustice faced by his previous company.

This book quietly explores the difficulties Eunjae and Jiyeon face while maintaining their idol-commoner secret relationship. The POVs add layers to the sweet, meaningful, yet complex relationship between the two.

I loved the recurring characters in the book and it's always a treat reading how the members of Apollo are always bickering yet so fiercely protective of each other. This book also brings in Eunjae's family relationship on the table and reading about the relationship he has with his mother made my blood boil. His younger brother is the sweetest though.

I also love love love the narration in the book— from POVs, to interviews, to text messages, to magazine clippings, and to audio/video transcriptions. I felt pure joy while reading the book and I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a cozy romance this season.