A review by ropey
Lemon by Kwon Yeo-sun

dark mysterious fast-paced

4.0

There are many things unsaid in this book. By the very end, I had to sit and let the words simmer for them to settle. My main gripe is it tried too hard to be existential and atmospheric that it blurred out its characters to the point of flattening them. 
Maybe Da-on stole Taerim's baby tit-for-tat after Taerim killed her sister out of jealousy. Hye-eun's beauty is often alluded to, something that enraged Taerim and attracted Jeogjun, her boyfriend at that time, and now husband. The baby perhaps even looked like Hye-eun which changed the husband's behavior so drastically. This is just my theory, though. I appreciate the author for leaving it open-ended that way so the reader is left to fit the pieces together.
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