A review by thisislauraw
The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre by Cho Yeeun

mysterious slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

The blurb described this as a 'body horror'. The idea of a theme park full of people melting into one another seemed ripe for a good, gory body horror.

This is not that book.

This is more of a surreal literary fiction, and we see the same events unfold through various points of view (including that of a cat). Everything feels distant, and I didn't feel a connection with any of the characters, most of whom seemed underdeveloped and uninteresting.

The most interesting sections were the ones that followed Hyeongyeong, a businesswoman with a dark secret, and the cat.

Had I gone into this with different expectations, I may have liked it more. But having it marketed as a horror that, to me, contained almost no horror elements... It felt like a letdown.