liketheday 's review for:

The Good Son by You-Jeong Jeong
3.0

I meant to read something light and fun on a lazy Saturday afternoon and ended up reading this instead, which may explain my less-than-enthusiastic response. This is one of those psychological thrillers where the "thriller" part comes not from wondering what's going to happen next, but seeing what's going to happen next and trying to figure out how the story is going to get there from here. I'm generally a fan of such things, but unfortunately the book leans heavily on the "psychological" part of the book and that part is not especially interesting. On the plus side, by the time I realized I was bored of the story and just wanted to find out how it ended, I was already halfway through this tiny volume and so it wasn't that difficult to get to that ending, which was actually decently believable so plus ten points to Jeong for sticking the landing.