Title - Snowglobe
Author - Soyoung Park
Release Date - February 27th, 2024
Genre - YA Dystopian
Rep - Korean, Asian
In a world of constant winter, only the citizens of the climate-controlled city of Snowglobe can escape the bitter cold—but this perfect society is hiding dark and dangerous secrets within its frozen heart. A groundbreaking Korean novel translated into English for the first time!
“The Hunger Games meets Squid Game in Soyoung Park’s dystopian thriller Snowglobe” –Entertainment Weekly
Enclosed under a vast dome, Snowglobe is the last place on Earth that’s warm. Outside Snowglobe is a frozen wasteland, and every day, citizens face the icy world to get to their jobs at the power plant, where they produce the energy Snowglobe needs. Their only solace comes in the form of twenty-four-hour television programming streamed directly from the domed city.
The residents of Snowglobe have everything: fame, fortune, and above all, safety from the desolation outside their walls. In exchange, their lives are broadcast to the less fortunate outside, who watch eagerly, hoping for the chance to one day become actors themselves.
Chobahm lives for the time she spends watching the shows produced inside Snowglobe. Her favorite? Goh Around, starring Goh Haeri, Snowglobe’s biggest star—and, it turns out, the key to getting Chobahm her dream life.
Because Haeri is dead, and Chobahm has been chosen to take her place. Only, life inside Snowglobe is nothing like what you see on television. Reality is a lie, and truth seems to be forever out of reach.
Translated for the first time into English from the original Korean, Snowglobe is a groundbreaking exploration of personal identity, and the future of the world as we know it. It is the winner of the Changbi X Kakaopage Young Adult Novel Award.
Content Warning: torture, murder, forced work, socioeconomic inequality
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐/5
Top THREE Reasons to Read Snowglobe
1 - Representation - The representation of Korean and Asian cultures, there are not many books you find like this one that will represent that part of the worlds and those groups of people.
2 - Nostalgia - The nostalgia of 2015 dystopian books. If you like me and the rest of the bookworms read and loved the Hunger Games when it first came out, you will love snowglobe. It gives you that nostalgic feeling that sometimes we crave in our books.
3 - Unpredictable - Twists and turns that give you whiplash. It is crazy to think that global warming could put the world in a perpetual winter with temperatures of -50 and below.
Soyoung Park majored in communication and media at university. She is a winner of the Original Story Award and the Changbi X Kakaopage Young Adult Novel Award. She is the author of the Snowglobe duology.
I would like to Thank TBR Tours, Soyoung Park, and Netgalley for a copy of the book for review and blog tour purposes.
