Kang Hanuel is living the kind of life as a K-pop idol that most people can only dream of—one filled with wealth, fame and being able to do what he loves for a living. But there is one thing missing. Nu has watched his fellow members of K-pop group SBG find love and can’t help but want that for himself. The road to true love hasn’t been easy for his friends, but for him it’s impossible. The hardest part of his yearning is that he’s already in love with his best friend, but it’s a love neither of them can acknowledge.
Lee Yeong was born with a golden spoon in his mouth, the son of one of the richest families in Korea. But all that money couldn’t buy LeYe any happiness. Only leaving it and his cold parents behind to become a K-pop trainee allowed him to finally have people in his life who truly cared about him. For the first time he had brothers and a best friend in Nu. Gradually that friendship turned into something more for both him and Nu. Perhaps the cruelest punishment fate was capable of doling out was to have the person you love right next to you all the time but not be able to indulge that love. But they both know that if they do, it’s the end of their careers and perhaps of SBG as a whole, not to mention their parents’ reactions. When LeYe is forced by his parents to leave SBG, work in the family’s company and accept an engagement to a woman he knows he can never love in order to protect Nu and his family, his heart breaks. But Nu isn’t letting him go that easily, even if it means letting the entire world know how much he loves LeYe.
Trish Milburn is the author of more than 50 romance and young adult novels, a huge fan of Asian dramas and K-pop music, prefers Marvel over D.C. (except Wonder Woman is awesome), and loves road trips and visiting national and state parks, and of course is an avid reader with a never-ending to-be-read pile.
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I've binged on this series over the past few days. I mentioned in my review of the first book that it was like a bonbon, and although I enjoyed the first five, they were pretty slight variations on a theme. The author does characters well, making even the predictable march to happily-ever-after pleasant reading. In this book, though, she takes on heavier issues in telling about the two guys in the fictional group SBG who are in love with each other. Moreover, one of them is a chaebol heir, and anyone who's seen a K-drama knows how ruthless those stratospherically rich families can be... A satisfying and more substantial entry in the series.
This one had some substance. Having read some of it out of order it didn’t make as much sense as it does now that it’s the last of the series. I liked the positive message and what a great read in pride month.