Translated: Korean

Late Today / Jungyoon Huh, Aerin Park (Translator), Myungae Lee (Illustrator)

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Late Today
By: Jungyoon Huh, Aerin Park (Translator), Myungae Lee (Illustrator)
Genre: Children’s, Picture Book
Number of Pages: 40
Published: September 23, 2025 (1st Published January 1, 2025)
Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Dates Read: April 27, 2026
Format: Library Book / Hardcover	ISBN: 9780802856494

One rainy morning on the Seogang Bridge in between all the cars is a tiny kitten. People mutter to themselves, but no one stops or slows down until one finally does…

As always, I’m going to grab a book with a cat, especially if it’s a children’s book but what do you mean this little kitten is stuck in traffic and no one stops?!

The crayon-like artwork is both bright and dark and shows the gloominess of the rain perfectly while still showing the cars moving about on the bridge.

Overall, super cute heartfelt story about a little kitten’s rescue from a car packed bridge.

Snow Globe / Soyoung Park, Joungmin Lee Comfort (Translator)

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Snow Globe
By: Soyoung Park, Joungmin Lee Comfort (Translator)
Genre: YA, Dystopia
Number of Pages: 384
Published: February 27, 2024 (1st Published October 23, 2020)
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Dates Read: April 17, 2025 - April 18, 2025
Format: Library Book / Audiobook

In a world of constant winter, only the citizens of the climate-controlled city of Snowglobe can escape the breath snatching cold. Outside Snowglobe, citizens must face the icy wasteland to get to their jobs at the power plant to produce the energy Snowglobe needs – in return, they have twenty-four hour reality television programming streamed directly from the domed city.

Chobahm lives for the time she gets to watch her favorite shows – especially Goh Around, starring Goh Haeri, Snowglobe’s star and future weather girl. It turns out, her favorite star is the key to getting Chobahm out of her frozen life and into the warmth of Snowglobe. Because Haeri is dead, and Chobahm looks exactly like her.

But life inside Snowglobe is nothing like Chobahm has thought it was – reality is a lie, and it seems like it take forever to reach any truth.

There were some crazy plot twists in this novel that kept me interested. I’m pretty sure it would be a spectacular K-Drama, because it totally reads like one, but some of the plot twists were way out there.

I’m not sure where I saw the comparison, but I originally picked this up because it said The Hunger Games meets The Squid Games. I do not agree with that comparison after reading this though. If the argument of the televised portion would be the connection to The Hunger Games – it’s just reality TV? And as for Squid Games it’s not a game of  life, death, or money.

Overall, this is a fast pace, twist and turn filled young adult read. There’s a second book coming out soon that I’m sure I will also read.

*Thank you Delacorte Press and NetGalley for a digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest review