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The Plotters by Un-su Kim

7 reviews

marlenemo's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Violence, and Animal death

Moderate: Stalking

Minor: Car accident, Medical content, and Domestic abuse

mlewis's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism and Alcohol

Minor: Death of parent, Animal death, Car accident, Gun violence, Stalking, and Suicide

livvyofthevalley's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

This was a fun read, but it never really felt like it was going anywhere. Maybe some of the impact got lost in translation.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Alcohol, Gun violence, Murder, Alcoholism, Cursing, Violence, Classism, Death, and Addiction

Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Police brutality, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Child death, Chronic illness, Body horror, Kidnapping, Sexual content, and War

midnightshow's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Murder, Sexism, Blood, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, and Death of parent

Minor: Fatphobia, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, and Child death

novi's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

I love this. This is a book for me!! It kinda reminds me of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, which is one of my favorites. And the first few chapters reminded me of Dive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, which is also one of my favortie books ever. This book is funny, charismatic, and dark. It's filled with interesting characters and stories that are sad (not in a VERY depressing way) but very interesting to follow. I'm in love with the characters and I want to know more about them. I want more. And for a book that is fille with "villains", all of them, ALL of them, are so likable.

My only complain is that the ending was not satisfying. At all. I guess we have to think for ourselves and interpret it in our own way why that was the ending, why the people did what they did, and how would the situation continue. It felt so unfinished!!! I need at least 1 more chapter. I also want to know more about old fox and hanja. Ugh a sequel or a prequel would be nice.

Oh also the concept of "the plotters" feels too organized for me. Too tidy. The fact that there are people that just plan things. How do they know if their plan will work if we've never seen them on the field? But I know nothing about this world so I don't know how accurate this book is, but the author has a lot of knowledge about the world of killing people (some are very specific and it made me very very suspicious), so *shrugs*.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism, Abandonment, and Murder

Minor: Car accident

brgntteva's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

 What a ride. What a noir. Together funny and gory and cruel and graphic and intimate. I'm in awe 
[IT sotto]
For once I'll write my thoughts straightaway cause this book solidly blew my mind. Thrillers and noir are not my jam, and I picked this one cause I found it on @scribd
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We're in the dark underbelly of Seoul, we get to meet its assassins and plotters, and all sorts of cruel yet "principled" characters like Reseng, who was brought up in the Doghouse, aka Old Racoon's library, where meetings happen, until he found a studio apartment where he lives with his two lady cats Desk and Lampshade, and all could have gone along bloody smoothly until 3 women came up and changed everything.
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I can't name what exactly blew me away expect all these elements put together. How all the characters were shady and human and rounded, how the novel is gory, but with a melancholic twist, extremely graphic (leaning to absurd, and here's the Tarantino comparison) and yet I couldn't but feel for the characters, and many of them at that. Might be the writing, or the insights on feelings such as resignation, desperation, the aim for redemption. I just genuinely and unexpectedly love it.
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Recommend!
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🇮🇹 I cospiratori di Un-Su Kim è un thriller/noir che mi ha stecchito, e completamente a sorpresa visto che è il genere che leggo di meno. Ma questo è il mese della letteratura coreana, quindi ho provato.
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Reseng è un assassino mercenario cresciuto in una biblioteca da Old Racoon (un vecchio ipercinico), che vive in un monolocale con due gatti, nel sottobosco di Seoul fatto di assassini e cospiratori, ama leggere i classici e ha un amico. E la sua routine sarebbe continuata nel sangue se non fossero apparse tre donne a cambiare tutto.

Mi è piaciuto il fatto che tutti i personaggi siano cinici malinconici e umani; la scrittura; che ci sono in ballo rassegnazione, disperazione, rabbia, redenzione; che è cruento e violento e molto grafico, con scene assurde (e qui si capisce il richiamo a Tarantino).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

sarah984's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I was surprised how much I enjoyed this one. It's a gritty noir story about an eternal war of assassins and the people who get caught in the middle. Somehow it managed to merge brutal violence, off-beat whimsical humour and genuine emotion into a package that was more than the sum of its parts.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Drug use, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Medical content, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, and Torture

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Child abuse, and Sexism

Minor: Ableism, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual content, Trafficking, Terminal illness, and Car accident