I’m pretty sure I read a manga with the same premise as this novel several years ago and it worked better as a one-shot without giving the reader a chance to look too closely at anything, because the further this novel dug the worse my impression got.

In the end, I just can’t get behind Robbie manipulating Elena and his I’m-a-sheltered-K-pop-star-so-I-don’t-understand-emotions excuse made me glad he (fictionally) lives on the other side of the planet from me.

Also, I can’t get over how cringey it is to claim that your fictional (totally-not-BTS) characters are friends with real K-idols.