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katep27 's review for:
Please Look After Mom
by Kyung-sook Shin
2.5/5stars
This was unfortunately just ok. I think it had a very strong message of always love the people in your life and don't take their presence for granted because they can be taken away so easily. But other than that this book was quite slow and boring and also hard to follow.
It was difficult to follow because we never got anything laid out for us - no names, relations, nothing. By the end I knew they were a family, but I didn't know who was actually who.
It also jumped from second to third person, which may have been because of the translation from Korean where I and You are the same word, only being determined by the rest of the sentence, but in English it was very weird and pulled me out of the story.
I also didn't really connect with any of the characters.
So, a bit of a let down, but it did have a good message.
This was unfortunately just ok. I think it had a very strong message of always love the people in your life and don't take their presence for granted because they can be taken away so easily. But other than that this book was quite slow and boring and also hard to follow.
It was difficult to follow because we never got anything laid out for us - no names, relations, nothing. By the end I knew they were a family, but I didn't know who was actually who.
It also jumped from second to third person, which may have been because of the translation from Korean where I and You are the same word, only being determined by the rest of the sentence, but in English it was very weird and pulled me out of the story.
I also didn't really connect with any of the characters.
So, a bit of a let down, but it did have a good message.