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A review by jazzinbuns
The Good Son by You-Jeong Jeong
5.0
Holy frick, this was good...
I had never expected Yu-jin to end up killing Hae-jin or his aunt (or his mother, for that matter).
I knew for sure that he’d frame him, but gunning the car into the ocean where he knew Hae-jin would die? Unexpected.
I wonder what would’ve happened if Hae-jin had stopped for that police car. Would he have immediately turned in Yu-jin? Was the officer just doing a routine stop since it was so late at night to be going to the observatory? We’ll never know.
Ultimately, I had begun the book thinking that either Yu-jin had DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) or was facing amnesia from the traumatic experience of seeing someone else murder his mother. It was an unexpected twist to learn that he had psychopathy instead, and that the medicine he was on was meant to subdue any urges he may have to cause harm to others (which is what I assume from the short description of his medication being that it can be used to treat mood disorders, even if psychopathy isn’t NECESSARILY a mood disorder to me).
I’m also still a bit unsure of whether his father jumped after Yu-min or Yu-jin pushed or tripped him, but I would say he caused his death regardless.
All in all, a thrilling book. A story that’s had me engrossed in a way I haven’t felt in a long time.
I had never expected Yu-jin to end up killing Hae-jin or his aunt (or his mother, for that matter).
I knew for sure that he’d frame him, but gunning the car into the ocean where he knew Hae-jin would die? Unexpected.
I wonder what would’ve happened if Hae-jin had stopped for that police car. Would he have immediately turned in Yu-jin? Was the officer just doing a routine stop since it was so late at night to be going to the observatory? We’ll never know.
Ultimately, I had begun the book thinking that either Yu-jin had DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) or was facing amnesia from the traumatic experience of seeing someone else murder his mother. It was an unexpected twist to learn that he had psychopathy instead, and that the medicine he was on was meant to subdue any urges he may have to cause harm to others (which is what I assume from the short description of his medication being that it can be used to treat mood disorders, even if psychopathy isn’t NECESSARILY a mood disorder to me).
I’m also still a bit unsure of whether his father jumped after Yu-min or Yu-jin pushed or tripped him, but I would say he caused his death regardless.
All in all, a thrilling book. A story that’s had me engrossed in a way I haven’t felt in a long time.