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aeri_8412 's review for:
The Good Son
by You-Jeong Jeong
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.