Rachel was lucky she had her mom as her number one advocate.
Another important lesson I learned from the book was how these trainees really need guidance from their parents or an adult they can trust who can support them and look out for their best interests.
It just feels more specific this time because it deals with another thing that I love - K-Pop!īut more than the gossip, I loved the book because it humanized the struggles of K-Pop trainees/artists - the extremely difficult training, the tight and tough competition, which can involve sabotaging each other's chances and pulling people down to overtake them, the huge pressure to debut, how you should never let your guard down because everyone seems to be out to get you, how management exploits and manipulates the talents and treat them like commodities, etc. It brought me back to my youth when I used to read young adult novels. So reading this book felt very much like reading K-Pop gossip. Jessica Jung said she did not intend this book to be an autobiography but she also admitted that a number of the characters are based on real people. Shine takes us through Rachel's journey to that highly-coveted debut. Rachel's story mostly revolves around her training, her younger sister Leah Kim, her number one rival and co-trainee Mina Choo, and her love interest, K-Pop singer Jason Lee. The book unmasks the glamor we often associate with K-Pop as it shows us the difficulties trainees have to go through. Shine is about the story of Rachel Kim, an 18-year old Korean American K-Pop trainee of DB Entertainment.
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