So We Meet Again: A Novel
Written by Suzanne Park
Narrated by Jackie Chung
4/5
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About this audiobook
“A cinematic, charming heart-squeeze-of-a-book that has found its way to my Ultimate Comfort Reads shelf.” —Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author
From the author of the “genuinely funny” and “delightful” Loathe at First Sight (NPR), a young Korean American woman’s journey to finding a new career and new love means learning to embrace the awkward and unexpected—exploring familial expectations, finding your voice, and unimaginably falling for your childhood rival.
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 . . .
“A funny, lovely mother-daughter story. And then there’s Daniel—yummy Daniel—and great food. Settle in and enjoy!” —Susan Elizabeth Phillips, New York Times bestselling author
“So We Meet Again is a hilarious read. What can go wrong when, after a quarter-life crisis, you move back in with your hyper-competitive parents? This comeback story will charm you from beginning to end.” —Madeleine Henry, author of The Love Proof and Breathe In, Cash Out
Suzanne Park
Suzanne Park is a Korean American writer who was born and raised in Tennessee. She is the author of the adult novels The Do-Over, So We Meet Again, and Loathe at First Sight. As a comedienne, she was selected to appear on BET’s Coming to the Stage. Suzanne was also the winner of the Seattle Sierra Mist Comedy Competition and was a semi-finalist in NBC’s Stand Up for Diversity showcase in San Francisco. Suzanne graduated from Columbia University and received an MBA from UCLA. She currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband, female offspring, and a sneaky rat that creeps around on her back patio. In her spare time, she procrastinates.
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Reviews for So We Meet Again
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What our readers think
Readers find this title to be an engaging and inspiring story. The characters, especially the protagonist's relationship with her parents, add depth and spice to the plot. However, some readers felt that the romance aspect could have been more developed. The book is praised for its original storytelling and portrayal of Korean culture. On the other hand, a few readers found the characters generic and the writing repetitive. Overall, the book offers a unique and enjoyable reading experience.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An engaging story that I really enjoyed, however, was it really a "romance"?
I really loved the history between her and Daniel, but imo we didn't get to see enough about how and why they fell for one another in the present. I would have preferred for this to be more of a focus of the book, and her (magically immediately a raving hit) business venture the secondary focus.
But I loved the h's parents, all the mentions of their church and competitive dynamic with the other parents, and although I'm certainly not qualified to judge whether this was an accurate and respectful portrayal of Korean culture, I really enjoyed it, and the narration as well.
3.5, rounded up to 4 stars for the originality of the storytelling. - Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I found it incredibly boring. The characters are generic, the male love interest has no character traits apart from being literally too perfect - which is wildly insufficient to make a character engaging. The writing is extremely repetitive (yes, we understood: Daniel looks great and is annoying, please move on...) and at times cringe inducing: there is a part where the protagonist is being accosted by a person in a bar and gives this weird, rambling speech that apparently has an effect... I don't understand how because it just made her seem unhinged, but it's one of those situations, where you could add a sarcastic: "And then, everybody clapped..." One of those unrealistic power-fantasy moments that just really gets the cringe going and that would not play out that way in real life. This is a general theme of the book: it's a cartoonish, cutesy power fantasy with barely any noteworthy conflict - everything just works out perfectly, everybody immediately loves her business, everybody falls over themselves to do business with her, out of completely nowhere. While the character has a (very convenient) old Youtube channel, the speed and extent of her immediate success is just ridiculous and not believable.
The most glaring issue is the lack of plot direction though. It just doesn't seem to go anywhere - it's like listening to 24 chapters of rambling. The protagonist works on her new business throughout the book, but she never really seems all that interested in it, apart from wanting to make it break even. Her business just takes off immediately with no real conflict too, apart from the obligatory misunderstanding between the love interests randomly thrown in somewhere. The characters don't really develop throughout the story, and a lot of the scenes and dialogues seem to be entirely random and have no actual relevance to the plot or the characters' development: like that scene where in chapter 19, randomly an evil male news caster is being introduced to the story, and a big part of the chapter explains how he is evil - just for him to be booted off and never heard of again. Why did we have to hear about some random guy who once cut in line of the protagonist's mom in the grocery store? It's so random...
The romance part is basically non existent. At chapter 20/24, the characters basically didn't get to know each other. There is a physical attraction between the two, but absolutely nothing else. Which is especially worthless, because the book constantly establishes how perfect Daniel is and how everybody loves him. I had no interest in either of the characters, and even less interest in them getting together. The characters are generic, and they basically have no reason to be together.
It doesn't help how the book simplifies the issue of sexism by just making EVERY male character a sexist stereotype. A bit of subtlety would've done the book a favor.
The message of female empowerment is great, it's just not very well executed.
2 stars because the voice acting is well done. It just can't save the story. I don't understand how anybody can give this a good review. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I really loved these characters. The entrepreneurial aspects were so inspiring. I cried when it was over!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The empowerment part of the story is highly inspiring and makes it a great read for every person that is having or had bumps in their career life. The romance story is good but I believe it was a little too much self-centred in the main female character, Jessica, that I never get to really know or get the personality of her ex high school acquittance and boyfriend candidate, Daniel. The relationship between Jessica and her parents is sweet and real, which gives a lot of spice into the story. So give yourself a chance to read this book and enjoy it.