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A review by icedpinecones
Lemon by Kwon Yeo-sun
3.0
While the writing, premise and layout of the book and its chapter system was interesting and enveloping to me, the plot itself felt... Missing?
I'll backtrack, the book is based on a cold case. Girl murdered, case goes cold, sister wants to find out the truth (or at least that's the premise the blurb leads you to). There's never really a conclusion, a solid "this is what happened" or closure for the protagonist, I'd argue this is more of a story of coming to terms with grief and loss and how life can be unfair. While the truth is hidden in the novel and I can roughly piece together what happens, you definitely need to go in knowing that this isn't a crime thriller of finding out the truth and more so an emotive portrait of trauma.
I'll backtrack, the book is based on a cold case. Girl murdered, case goes cold, sister wants to find out the truth (or at least that's the premise the blurb leads you to). There's never really a conclusion, a solid "this is what happened" or closure for the protagonist, I'd argue this is more of a story of coming to terms with grief and loss and how life can be unfair. While the truth is hidden in the novel and I can roughly piece together what happens, you definitely need to go in knowing that this isn't a crime thriller of finding out the truth and more so an emotive portrait of trauma.