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The Beautiful Dead
- A Tale of K-Pop, Ghosts, and Nine-Tailed Fox Women
- Narrated by: Amy Landon
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
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Summary
A lonely Korean pop star learns her high school classmate died five years ago. So, why are they still texting?
Yubin knows she's different than the other girls in the pop group SIITY. Yes, they all got sucked into the same machine, giving up schooling and signing ridiculously long contracts with no guarantee of success, but that's how Korean stars are made. Yubin is supposed to be thankful for that, but she isn't. She doesn't even like the girls she performs with.
She's more connected to her former schoolmate Jieun, even though all they ever do is text. Over the last two months, Jieun has become her confidant and best friend, connecting Yubin to the real world in a way she desperately needs. Now that SIITY is going to appear on the reality show Incredible Race: Asia, Yubin will need that connection more than ever, which is why she's devastated to discover Jieun has been dead five years and is actually haunting her.
If that weren't enough, Yubin's not the only SIITY member with issues. Rena's father is emotionally abusive. Somi has a learning disability, and after a near death experience, Tae-eun becomes a nine-tailed fox woman. The only way they'll survive the show, each other, and the supernatural currents buffeting them is to work together and win the hearts of their fans. Because if they don't, they have nothing to go back to even if they survive what's trying to kill them.
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- Nia Ireland
- 10-03-18
A refreshing take on paranormal fantasy
Now here’s the void in my reading life that I didn’t realise I had! K-pop paranormal drama.
Prince is an amazing writer, she gave each character their own distinctive voices and personalities which, though I didn’t really like them all, made them a pleasure to listen to/read.
Yubin, one of the main character, is an empath and presumably one of the characters we should like the most but I didn’t like her mentality at all – she openly admits to herself that she doesn’t socialise with her bandmates or anyone else because they’re not worth her time and she’s superior to them. Yeeeesh, even if she does get better over time I’m not a huge fan of her attitude.
Her bandmates all have their own issues going on, both supernatural and real-world. I really liked the fact that Somi, one of the bandmates, has ADHD and only has partial hearing which are both presented as character traits rather than exploited or used as a cheap plot device.
It’s funny that I could really empathise with all of the characters apart from the empath!
In terms of violence and action, this book starts off with mild supernatural content and then works its way up to a wonderfully violent conclusion, with some mild gore, which I really enjoyed. These young women are finally starting to bond when they find out the have the weird and wonderful in common. You get to meet shapeshifters, magic, poltergeists and psychic powers which are presented in a way you may not have read before.
I listened to the audiobook version of this story and Amy Landon did a brilliant job of narrating, she does a variety of different character voices with Korean accents and does so convincingly and without overdoing it (a pet hate of mine). Her reading voice is both interesting and relaxing which I enjoyed. This is an 11.5 hour audiobook and I listened to it in long chunks without any loss of attention!
Fingers crossed there’ll be another book out with these characters but I’ll be waiting for the audio to get the full effect.
**Thank you to the author for a free copy of the audiobook in exchange for an honest and unbiased review**
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- Deedra
- 30-11-18
The Beautiful Dead
Korean pop stars sometimes are friends,sometimes aren't.They don't know as much about each other as one would think.As it turns out,some have overbearing dads,shapshifting grandmas,entertain ghosts or want to go to college.More of a YA tale,this is a really good book with a lot of twists and turns. Amy Landon was the perfect narrator. I was given this book by the narrator,author or publisher free for an honest review.
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- Demetra Toula Iliopoulos
- 05-01-20
A beautiful audio
First book in the series . First by the author I listened . What caught my eye is this story is not only is it a fantasy and a paranormal, but it has it all . There are ghosts it’s a Korean fantasy book that has a group of girls together, the four members of the girl K-pop group SIITY -- Yubin, Tae-eun, Rena and Somi are the heroine. The ghost is jealous ghost, Jieun, who imposed herself to the girls life’s . Sometimes Jieun, helps the girls and sometimes she likes to have fun with the K-Pop group of girls .
Amy Landon performance was great . She nailed down the accent , Korean , her tone for the fantasy group of characters were spot on .
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