The Good Son - You Jeong Jeong

Thriller

Rating: 8.5/10

This tautly woven thriller takes on one of the standard tropes and twists it every which way with the intent to keep the reader tantalized. And that you will be in this intricate, unique, and at its best moments, diabolical, novel.

Early one morning our main character wakes up to a strange metallic smell and a panicked phone call from his brother asking if everything was okay. Every moment that follows is an unflinching revelation for the reader. Most of the action takes place with this one character in a small apartment. The limited physicality only ratchets up the sense of the walls closing in and keeps us turning the pages to see what happens.

Footnote: Pretty please may there be more of this writer’s works translated into English in the near future. Very near…