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The Good Son - Anak Teladan by You-Jeong Jeong

22 reviews

rafaquatro's review against another edition

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dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Its a thriller, a good one who does a lot of reflection about abuse and mother to son relationship, very predictable tho.
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kristina_ligaya's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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my_bibliotheca's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

4.5

Keterbalikan dari judulnya, isi buku ini benar-benar durhaka. Dari sudut pandang Yu-jin, pembaca bisa tahu semua peranan di kehidupannya memiliki kesalahan yang mengakibatkan keadaan semakin runyam dan serba salah. 
 
Pada bab pertama, pembaca langsung disuguhkan kasus pembunuhan dan teka-teki yang sebetulnya tidak sulit untuk ditebak siapa pelakunya, namun narasinya dibangun dengan sangat lihai dan tricky. Pembaca perlu menggali lebih dalam untuk mengaitkan dan membuka fakta demi fakta di balik kejanggalan kasus-kasus pembunuhan. 
 
Dari buku ini, aku bisa mengerti kengerian akibat dari kesalahpahaman dan ketertidakbukaan antar keluarga. Semuanya disulut karena dua hal tersebut, dari yang lama terabaikan dan akhirnya dipendam tanpa sadar sudah mengendap dan menuntun ke kemurkaan Yu-jin. 
 
Buku ini lumayan page turner karena di tiap halaman membuat aku semakin bertanya-tanya dan ingin cepat-cepat mengetahui segalanya. Plot twist di bab akhir yang disuguhkan tidak begitu mengagetkan, tapi penjelasan semua kejadian dari sudut pandang Yu-jin vs Ibunya menjadi nilai tambah buku ini, karena kita mengetahui bentuk kejadian secara utuh. Dan sebagai pembaca, jujur aku sedikit kesulitan akan memihak ke siapa. Keduanya sama-sama memiliki alasan dan kelemahan. Jika mencoba menempatkan diri ke mereka, pasti sama-sama bimbangnya. 
 
The Good Son merupakan buku kedua dari Jeong You-Jeong yang sudah aku baca! Semoga di lain kesempatan bisa baca karyanya yang lain 🙌🏻
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mim72's review against another edition

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dark tense fast-paced
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No

3.0

A strong start and a real page-turner, but the ending was a let-down.
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catandherbooks's review against another edition

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

4.5

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mymercurialnature's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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vampfang's review against another edition

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

3.75

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fragoline's review against another edition

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

5.0

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bluejayreads's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

For a thriller based around the protagonist being unsure if he actually committed the murder, this book is remarkably slow-paced. That isn't necessarily a bad thing, as it was reasonably interesting. I'm not much of a crime fiction reader, but it was interesting enough. My problem was the ending - it may sound weird to say, but too many questions got answered. I thought the one big underlying question
Spoiler(whether Yu-jin was born a psychopath or made into a murderer by his aunt's "treatment")
was going to be left ambiguous and up to the reader's interpretation. You could make a solid argument for either answer to the question, and leaving it unresolved would make it more of a theme that the book explored. But the very end of the book just straight-up answered the question. Suddenly that big underlying philosophical question wasn't a theme or something I could think about after I finished the book, but just another question to be answered by the end of a mystery book. What could have been a book that was not particularly my thing but interesting nevertheless lost all appeal with an on-page answer to the big question. And that really ruined the whole book for me. 
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serendipity421's review

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dark mysterious tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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