Who can you trust if you can’t trust yourself?Įarly one morning, twenty-six-year-old Yu-jin wakes up to a strange metallic smell, and a phone call from his brother asking if everything’s all right at home – he missed a call from their mother in the middle of the night. You Jeong Jeong is the master of creating thriller novels in Korea. Ripley meets The Bad Seed in this breathless, chilling psychological thriller by the bestselling novelist known as “Korea’s Stephen King”. The Good Son is the first of her books to be translated into English.Buy ‘The Good Son’ by You Jeong Jeong from Amazon now! Synopsis of The Good Son: Her work has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Thai and Vietnamese.
You-jeong is the author of four novels including Seven Years of Darkness, which was named one of the top ten crime novels of 2015 by the German newspaper Die Zeit. She is now South Korea’s leading writer of psychological crime and thriller fiction and is often compared to Stephen King and Raymond Chandler. She initially trained and worked as a nurse. You-jeong Jeong was born in Hampyeong, South Korea. I also found the ending, although quite sad, surprisingly satisfying. I liked the different emotions I felt whilst reading and the twists kept the story interesting. I very much enjoyed the story, the way in which it was written made it clear and simple to understand. Throughout the story the character development increases giving you a clear and very believable idea of what they are like you’ll feel pity, sadness, anger and disbelief at what they are/can be capable of. You go through a wave of emotions and your feelings for the characters change with every chapter.
The good son is a book that will keep you hooked throughout with many twists and turns along the way. Determined to find out who did this, how and why, Yu-Jin begins an investigation of his own which leads to some very unexpected results.
Other than a few health issues he believes he has led a relatively normal life, until one morning when he wakes up covered in blood and finds a dead body downstairs, his mother’s. Yu-Jin has a doting mother and a brother who loves him. The Good Son is inspired by a true story. Who is he hunting? And why does the answer take him back to his brother and father who lost their lives many years ago. Then young women start disappearing in his South Korean town. When Yu-jin wakes up covered in blood, and finds the body of his mother downstairs, he decides to hide the evidence and pursue the killer himself. HOW COULD YOU, YOU’VE ALWAYS BEEN THE GOOD SON
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