Those factors saved this book, bringing my rating to a total of three stars. Every single dish sounds delicious, and I need to find a local Korean restaurant ASAP. I also loved all the mentions of food, even though it made me insanely hungry. I was fully invested in the goings-on at SAA and might’ve given this book a higher rating if it was centered around the school and students. Setting my romance disappointment aside, the writing is well done, and I flew through every single chapter. I understand this behavior is normal for a teenage girl with a boy on her radar, but it always irks me. I didn’t like Jenny’s irresponsibility every time Jaewoo was in the near vicinity, missing cello practices and cancelling plans with friends. Jaewoo was fine but not particularly interesting he actually reminds me of myself which makes sense because I’m pretty boring. Unfortunately I didn’t fully connect with Jaewoo and Jenny as individual characters therefore their romance did not interest me in the slightest. I don’t consume contemporary romance on a regular basis, but I turned to “XOXO” to fill a hole left by the disappointing romance in my last read. Will Jenny choose cello over Jaewoo, or is she willing to give up her dream for the boy she’s falling in love with?” Now a relationship is a possibility, but it means sacrificing their respective music paths. Not only that, he’s a member of XOXO, a new K-pop band taking the world by storm. until she moves to South Korea for a semester and finds out he’s a student at her new school.

When Jaewoo stops responding to her texts, she does her best to forget him and focus on music.

The night ends as quickly as it began, but the pair exchange contact information. After receiving a critique about lacking artistry, she gives in to a moment of insanity and spends the night roaming the streets of Los Angeles with a boy she’s just met at her uncle’s karaoke bar. “Cellist Jenny Go has one thing on her mind: getting accepted into her dream music school in Manhattan.

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