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lovemazeee 's review for:
The Red Palace
by June Hur
It took me forever to finish this book because I just kept getting bored and would put it down to start reading something else. I had initially rated it as a 3 when I finished it but after thinking about the story for a bit longer I had to bring it down to a 2 because I wouldn’t be able to recommend this book to anyone as a “must read”.
The least interesting part of the story is the mystery, as we don’t get enough background on the players involved to really care about them or their motivations. We never get any insight into what caused the prince to murder the first nurse, so the responses of the other characters didn’t really matter to me as a reader, other than it obviously sucks that someone was killed. I also thought the ending was really anti-climatic and seemed rushed for how long the two main characters had been searching for answers.
I wish it had been darker and leaned into the horror of the situation, as the real story of Prince Sado is more upsetting and interesting than what we were shown here. The book seems to almost want to portray him as not that bad of a person which seems like an odd take, even with there potentially being some ambiguity in what crimes he committed in real life.
The least interesting part of the story is the mystery, as we don’t get enough background on the players involved to really care about them or their motivations. We never get any insight into what caused the prince to murder the first nurse, so the responses of the other characters didn’t really matter to me as a reader, other than it obviously sucks that someone was killed. I also thought the ending was really anti-climatic and seemed rushed for how long the two main characters had been searching for answers.
I wish it had been darker and leaned into the horror of the situation, as the real story of Prince Sado is more upsetting and interesting than what we were shown here. The book seems to almost want to portray him as not that bad of a person which seems like an odd take, even with there potentially being some ambiguity in what crimes he committed in real life.