Goo’s target American readers may be as unaware of the prevailing K-Pop zeitgeist as Jack-but again, perhaps not-but Lucky’s character and this story are nonetheless charming the reader is likely to want to know more. He’s on a gig for the latter when he runs into Lucky, but has no clue she’s an international star. He (in case one wonders how one manages to score a gap year in Hong Kong) interns at his father’s multinational bank by day he moonlights as a paparazzo by night. In the elevator, she meets Jack Lim, a Korean-American in Hong Kong on his gap year. Lucky’s manager has put her on a strict diet, so leaving the hotel and eating a burger are two big acts of rebellion for the teen. After her last show, she evades her bodyguards and escapes her luxury hotel in search of a hamburger. When the story begins, Lucky has just finished a fifteen-city Asian tour. Unlikely and unusual once, perhaps, but apparently not so much anymore. Yet the story is unusually set almost completely in Hong Kong while the protagonist, Lucky, is an equally unlikely American-born internationally renowned teenage K-Pop star who isn’t a household name in the United States-yet.

With her trademark humor and voice, Maurene Goo delivers a sparkling story of taking a chance on love-and finding yourself along the way.The cover of Somewhere Only We Know, Maurene Goo’s latest young adult novel, isn’t inordinately different from other contemporary romantic comedies: a young Asian woman is seated while a young Asian man leans into her back, only part of his face and an arm are visible.

12:00 a.m.: Nothing will ever be the same. On his way out of the hotel, he runs into a girl wearing slippers, a girl who is single-mindedly determined to find a hamburger. 11:00 p.m.: Jack is sneaking into a fancy hotel, on assignment for his tabloid job that he keeps secret from his parents. But right now? She's in her fancy hotel, trying to fall asleep but dying for a hamburger. She's about to debut on The Tonight Show in America, hopefully a breakout performance for her career. 10:00 p.m.: Lucky is the biggest K-pop star on the scene, and she's just performed her hit song 'Heartbeat' in Hong Kong to thousands of adoring fans.

A BuzzFeed Pick for YA Books You Absolutely Must Read This Spring Sparks fly between a K-pop starlet and a tabloid reporter in Somewhere Only We Know, a heartwarming rom-com from Maurene Goo.

Somewhere Only We Know by Maurene Goo