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3.68 AVERAGE
3.68 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Keterbalikan dari judulnya, isi buku ini benar-benar durhaka. Dari sudut pandang Yu-jin, pembaca bisa tahu semua peranan di kehidupannya memiliki kesalahan yang mengakibatkan keadaan semakin runyam dan serba salah.
Pada bab pertama, pembaca langsung disuguhkan kasus pembunuhan dan teka-teki yang sebetulnya tidak sulit untuk ditebak siapa pelakunya, namun narasinya dibangun dengan sangat lihai dan tricky. Pembaca perlu menggali lebih dalam untuk mengaitkan dan membuka fakta demi fakta di balik kejanggalan kasus-kasus pembunuhan.
Dari buku ini, aku bisa mengerti kengerian akibat dari kesalahpahaman dan ketertidakbukaan antar keluarga. Semuanya disulut karena dua hal tersebut, dari yang lama terabaikan dan akhirnya dipendam tanpa sadar sudah mengendap dan menuntun ke kemurkaan Yu-jin.
Buku ini lumayan page turner karena di tiap halaman membuat aku semakin bertanya-tanya dan ingin cepat-cepat mengetahui segalanya. Plot twist di bab akhir yang disuguhkan tidak begitu mengagetkan, tapi penjelasan semua kejadian dari sudut pandang Yu-jin vs Ibunya menjadi nilai tambah buku ini, karena kita mengetahui bentuk kejadian secara utuh. Dan sebagai pembaca, jujur aku sedikit kesulitan akan memihak ke siapa. Keduanya sama-sama memiliki alasan dan kelemahan. Jika mencoba menempatkan diri ke mereka, pasti sama-sama bimbangnya.
The Good Son merupakan buku kedua dari Jeong You-Jeong yang sudah aku baca! Semoga di lain kesempatan bisa baca karyanya yang lain 🙌🏻
Content Warnings
Graphic: Stalking, Murder
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This was incredibly well-written and I'm still in shock.
Yu-jin wakes up one morning to find himself covered in blood and he has no memory of why. He sees that his home is blood-splattered and as he investigates he finds the body of his mother dead with her throat cut. Yu-jin is scared as he has had a blackout caused by him stopping taking his medication. As relatives start to express concern about his mother Yu-jin decides to clean up but on finding his mother's journal his memory starts to come back and he realises that his medication is hiding more than epilepsy.
This is a short and very sharp book which completely grips the reader. The start suggests that Yu-jin has been set up and he appears a victim but as the plot progresses the reader realises that there is more to Yu-jin than first appears. The tone shifts incrementally as the horror increases and I found myself hooked to find out what happens next. It's obvious but deliciously macabre. The writing is so spare I can forgive the glaring holes in the narrative because the book is just brilliant.
This is a short and very sharp book which completely grips the reader. The start suggests that Yu-jin has been set up and he appears a victim but as the plot progresses the reader realises that there is more to Yu-jin than first appears. The tone shifts incrementally as the horror increases and I found myself hooked to find out what happens next. It's obvious but deliciously macabre. The writing is so spare I can forgive the glaring holes in the narrative because the book is just brilliant.
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Violence, Murder, Sexual harassment
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Gaslighting
challenging
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The story begins with 26 yo Yu-jin waking up covered in blood and finding his mother's body on the kitchen floor, with her throat slit and blood everywhere, including on his own hands and clothes. But did he kill her? He has no memory of the night before because he has stopped taking his epilepsy medication and that often results in massive headaches and blackouts. There is no sign of robbery at all, so if he didn't kill her, who did?
Yu-jin is a perfect student, champion swimmer and good son. He lives in with his mother (who worked in publishing before retiring) and adopted older brother Hae-jin (who works in film production) in an apartment in suburban Incheon. His father and older brother Yu-min died in an accident 10 years previously.
The narration of the novel is carried out in the first person by Yu-jin. Yu-jin gradually remembers what happened, and reconstructs the events, with the help of his mother's diary, he remembers important events from his childhood and the story of what happened that day. It's that kind of unpredictability that is probably why I kept turning the pages. This is reflected in a narrative voice that gets increasingly more disturbing as the story moves forward.
The only irritant that distracts me sometimes is the time changing. There are many sudden flashbacks which require me to be more focused on the plot. Then, one of the unique things from this book is because it focused on the why instead of the who. I'm gonna give it 4 stars before but the ending is unsatisfying for me.
Yu-jin is a perfect student, champion swimmer and good son. He lives in with his mother (who worked in publishing before retiring) and adopted older brother Hae-jin (who works in film production) in an apartment in suburban Incheon. His father and older brother Yu-min died in an accident 10 years previously.
The narration of the novel is carried out in the first person by Yu-jin. Yu-jin gradually remembers what happened, and reconstructs the events, with the help of his mother's diary, he remembers important events from his childhood and the story of what happened that day. It's that kind of unpredictability that is probably why I kept turning the pages. This is reflected in a narrative voice that gets increasingly more disturbing as the story moves forward.
The only irritant that distracts me sometimes is the time changing. There are many sudden flashbacks which require me to be more focused on the plot. Then, one of the unique things from this book is because it focused on the why instead of the who. I'm gonna give it 4 stars before but the ending is unsatisfying for me.
brilliant. outstanding. creepy, dark, heavy, yet amazingly written. the plot was mind blowing.
dark
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes