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challenging
emotional
informative
tense
medium-paced
5.0
It wasn't quite what I was expecting but that's not at all a bad thing. The juxtaposition of the imaginativeness (is that a word? Lol) with 1990s North Korea was so intriguing. There's definitely a good amount of violence and things that make you say "oh damn 😳" The main character is really well-written too. The chapters are reeaally long which normally I would hate, but it kept me hooked, and I didn't want to stop reading it. So I didn't and read it in one night (two sittings) 😅 My only complaint is that I wanted more lol more of Jun-su's story, especially while in prison and then later in the UK.
Quotes:
Quotes:
- In the darkness before the yut sticks do their work, Jun-su thought, We are nothing: neither Cat, nor fox, nor Yankee bastard, nor troll, nor pure-blooded descendant of Tangun. In the moment before you first drew breath, he were only a quickening pulse, one point and an unthinkable vastness of stars. Who decided how it had to be? Who chose your destiny? (206)
- Why? David Kapsberger had asked. How? was the better question. How did someone create it by one reality begin to operate by the rules of another? Every connection that had given Jun-su's life meaning was about to be suffered. He thought of Cat, her high fastidious steps making dints in the snow as she moved away from him without a backwards glance. (221)
- The Truth is that every choice is a little death. You can't live to everything, you have to die to some things. (240)
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Police brutality, Violence, and Gore
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