Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

The Good Son by You-Jeong Jeong

24 reviews

ealfving's review against another edition

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Death of parent, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Child death

slaywithsteph's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

There are some people you just can’t love. Even when they smile, they make you want to pull on either side of that smile and rip their mouth off.

Yu-Jin, a troubled young adult dreaming of being independent and making his family proud, wakes up next to the dead body of his mother with no memory of what happened. You’ll follow along with Yu-Jin as he pieces together what happened.

The narrator is rather talkative as he reflects on his life and the death of his mom, but otherwise, it was fun albeit fairly predictable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gore, Mental illness, Stalking, Blood, Death, Dysphoria, Physical abuse, Murder, Gaslighting, and Violence

daepyonimst's review against another edition

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Murder, Sexual harassment, Body horror, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

catandherbooks's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Death of parent, Blood, Murder, Child death, and Violence

Moderate: Stalking

Minor: Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, and Car accident

vonni's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Emotional abuse, Murder, Body horror, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Animal death, Car accident, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Medical content

fragoline's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death of parent, Stalking, and Sexual assault

nodogsonthemoon's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Car accident, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Blood

Moderate: Mental illness, Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

bluejayreads's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

For a thriller based around the protagonist being unsure if he actually committed the murder, this book is remarkably slow-paced. That isn't necessarily a bad thing, as it was reasonably interesting. I'm not much of a crime fiction reader, but it was interesting enough. My problem was the ending - it may sound weird to say, but too many questions got answered. I thought the one big underlying question

(whether Yu-jin was born a psychopath or made into a murderer by his aunt's "treatment")

was going to be left ambiguous and up to the reader's interpretation. You could make a solid argument for either answer to the question, and leaving it unresolved would make it more of a theme that the book explored. But the very end of the book just straight-up answered the question. Suddenly that big underlying philosophical question wasn't a theme or something I could think about after I finished the book, but just another question to be answered by the end of a mystery book. What could have been a book that was not particularly my thing but interesting nevertheless lost all appeal with an on-page answer to the big question. And that really ruined the whole book for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Violence, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Grief and Stalking

Control/manipulation through medical means

secrethistory's review against another edition

dark 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

2.0

Overall I was disappointed. The familial themes were by far the most interesting, but we were led through a farce of a mystery where nothing was ever in doubt. The writing was very engaging, the themes were interesting, but the actual plot dragged for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Murder, Death of parent, and Violence

Moderate: Child death

serendipity421's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Stalking