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A review by not_a_username
The Good Son by You-Jeong Jeong
dark
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
2.5
⚠️the review has spoilers!⚠️
It got repetitive after a while. The entirety of the book is the main character trying to piece together his memories to understand what happened during the night but he does so at random points in the narrative, most of the time he just gets a plot convenient hallucination that gives him a hint to proceed.
Honestly the overuse of flashbacks and halluciations got me rolling my eyes at times(the mom with the "joker" smile was particularly cringy)
I was waiting for some kind of big twist by the end of the book that would have made the 300 pages worth it but no– everything you know about the character by page 50 is literally all you need to know to understand why he did what he did, maybe if the book were shorter it would have been better.
Also Hea-jin as a character seems to only be in the story to take the blame in the epilogue(which I also didn't like that much)
It got repetitive after a while. The entirety of the book is the main character trying to piece together his memories to understand what happened during the night but he does so at random points in the narrative, most of the time he just gets a plot convenient hallucination that gives him a hint to proceed.
Honestly the overuse of flashbacks and halluciations got me rolling my eyes at times(the mom with the "joker" smile was particularly cringy)
I was waiting for some kind of big twist by the end of the book that would have made the 300 pages worth it but no– everything you know about the character by page 50 is literally all you need to know to understand why he did what he did, maybe if the book were shorter it would have been better.
Also Hea-jin as a character seems to only be in the story to take the blame in the epilogue(which I also didn't like that much)