The Good Son
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You-Jeong Jeong
Yu-jin is a good son, a model student and a successful athlete. But one day he wakes up covered in blood. There's no sign of a break-in and there's a body downstairs. It's the body of someone who Yu-jin knows all too well. Yu-jin struggles to piece together the fragments of what he can remember from the night before. He suffers from regular seizures and blackouts. He knows he will be accused if he reports the body, but what to do instead? Faced with an unthinkable choice, Yu-jin makes an unthinkable decision. Through investigating the murder, reading diaries, and looking at his own past and childhood, Yu-jin discovers what has happened. The police descend on the suburban South Korean district in which he lives. The body of a young woman is discovered. Yu-jin has to go back, right back, to remember what happened, back to the night he lost his father and brother, and even further than that.
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Author
You-Jeong Jeong
Pages
309
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group Limited
Published Date
2019-04-04
ISBN
0349142939 9780349142937
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"I really enjoyed this. It took a while to get into it, but once I did I was going faster than ever and it only got more and more interesting the more they told you - and didn't. It keeps you on your toes and I found myself in the shoes of the main character on more than one occasion, in his confusion as to what could possibly have caused all this destruction around him, and when he found out and wondered what to do next. I felt from him from the beginning and it didn't let up much! #thriller "
"Early one morning, Yu-jin wakes up to a strange metallic smell, and a phone call from his "brother" asking if everything's all right at home, as he missed a call from their mother. Yu-jin soon discovers her murdered body, in their Seoul duplex. He can't remember much about the night before, as he has suffered from seizures. All he has is an impression of his mother calling his name. But was she calling for help? Or begging for her life? <br/><br/>This wasn't a "whodunit" as I orginally thought, but a "whydunit" as You-jin pieces together the night he can't remember. along with a past filled with lies. This was my first translated novel that I've read and I throughly enjoyed it. The build up was slower, as you knew 'who did it's, but you didn't know what they were thinking or what they may do next, so it had me hooked. I had trouble with the long 'chapters' as this book only had 4 parts/chapters, but there were plenty of breaks in the pages where you could take a break from reading.<br/><br/>This books is an addictive psychological thriller. The more I read, the more I got hooked and had to figure out what had happened in the past and why Yu-jin did what he did."