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seasidefaye13's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Suicide and Murder
Minor: Sexual assault
abbyycadabbyy's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
tense
slow-paced
3.0
I liked this book. Because of the way this book is written, I am going to break my review into three sections. I feel like I’m the different sections my opinion on the story started to change.
The Beginning: At first I liked Hanjo. I felt pity for him when his wife left. He explained how “perfect” his life had been and I had a hard time understanding why his wife would leave him and write the book. Then we started to learn aboutJisoo’s disappearance/death . I felt like something wasn’t right but as a reader the only person you have to trust is Hanjo and his story. I started to see cracks in his story. Then (it almost to me seemed out of nowhere) Hanjo’s father was arrested and charged with Jisoo’s murder . I was almost sure that wasn’t true though, he had no reason. I started to believe that it was one of the boys. My suspicions fell on Suin and I thought he was guilty most of the book .
The Middle: We started to get Haeri’s perspective of what had happened and I started to fall in love with her character and grow disgusted with Hanjo. You could even say I started hating Hanjo, a character I had been rooting for in the beginning of the book I started to hate! Haeri made me love her sister even more. As Haeri talked about her experiences I felt a lump in my throat. I wanted to jump in the book and save her. When Haeri started talking about why shemarried Hanjo and how she wanted to get revenge on him I was rooting for her all the way.
The End: I had already made up my mind that I hated Hanjo the things that he had done made him unforgivable. I thoughtSuins romantically feeling for Jisoo and Haeri’s mom was weird . I really liked the ending. When Hanjo burned all of his paintings to take himself out before his wife’s book could I felt it was very poetic. The authors never specifies if Jisoo had committed suicidal you are left to interpret that.
I though the beginning was slow and that is the only reason this book isn’t a 4/5 for me.
The Beginning: At first I liked Hanjo. I felt pity for him when his wife left. He explained how “perfect” his life had been and I had a hard time understanding why his wife would leave him and write the book. Then we started to learn about
The Middle: We started to get Haeri’s perspective of what had happened and I started to fall in love with her character and grow disgusted with Hanjo. You could even say I started hating Hanjo, a character I had been rooting for in the beginning of the book I started to hate! Haeri made me love her sister even more. As Haeri talked about her experiences I felt a lump in my throat. I wanted to jump in the book and save her. When Haeri started talking about why she
The End: I had already made up my mind that I hated Hanjo the things that he had done made him unforgivable. I thought
I though the beginning was slow and that is the only reason this book isn’t a 4/5 for me.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death and Self harm
Moderate: Rape and Murder
Minor: Suicide
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