Snowglobe 2 (May 6, 2025) by Soyoung Park.
Joungmin Lee Comfort, translator.
<This is
the sequel novel in a duology.>
<Alert:
Potential spoilers if one hasn’t read the first book.>
The girl she watched faithfully on TV is interchangeable.
Jeon Chobahm knows this, for she’s filled the shoes of Goh Haeri. The director
who created the family is imprisoned, but problems are not over for Chobahm and
the other Haeri clones (Shin Shinae, Myung Somyung and Bae Serin). Snowglobe is
starting to crack under the weight of its exposed lies, but the Yibonn Media
Group is even more corrupt. They’ll do anything and eliminate anyone to keep
their power and hide the secret of the domed city’s trademark warmth.
Chobahm has unwittingly witnessed this dark, devious truth, and now there’s
footage of her committing a murder that she definitely didn’t commit. Her other
Haeri counterparts are accounted for during that timeframe, and the footage can’t
be doctored, so who’s the Haeri who committed the crime? Yi Bonwhe is the
one who has the knowledge to help, for he’s none other than the disgraced
Yibonn heir. He may not be the ruthless heir his mom and grandmother expect him
to be, but he’s been complicit and feels the weight of his family’s awful
truths. Things are heating up in this frozen world.
There is
no utopia in this dystopian world. Chobahm and the other inhabitants of
Snowglobe are enduring purposeful blackouts (there’s a Disaster Meter),
extreme weather (it’s frozen outside the dome) and human-caused environmental
disasters of the creative type (e.g. popcorn snow or a blizzard of bubbles),
which can still prove deadly. Chobahm is no perfect heroine. She’s strong,
intelligent and brave, but she can be rash, falsely believe that only she can
solve a problem and put her trust in the wrong person. The writing isn’t
heavy, but the story is complex. How does entertainment distort reality when an
actor is actually committing murders? How do you expose a group’s lies without
getting yourself killed? This duology’s layers make for a memorable saga.
Book 1:
Snowglobe
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