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The Good Son

By: You-jeong Jeong
Narrated by: Johnathan McClain,Elizabeth Liang
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Publisher's Summary

You wake up covered in blood.

There's a body downstairs.

Your mother's body.

You didn't do it. Did you? 

How could you, you've always been the good son. 

The international sensation from Korea's million-copy best selling author You-Jeong Jeong.

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. 

Then young women start disappearing in his South Korean town. Who is he hunting? And why does the answer take him back to his brother and father who lost their lives many years ago.

The Good Son is inspired by a true story.  

©2018 You-jeong Jeong, Chi-Young Kim (P)2018 Little, Brown Book Group

Critic Reviews

"For fans of Jo Nesbo and Patricia Highsmith." (A. J. Finn, Sunday Times, best-selling author of The Woman in the Window)

"The queen of crime...You-jeong Jeong is shaking up the world of suspense." (Glamour

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  • LyndsayA
  • 03-06-21

Slowly but surely enticing.

Dull narration is fitting. Slow to start but a captivating read with a few surprises.

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  • Dorothy
  • 07-02-19

Worth the wait

It took me a while to get into the book but when I did I enjoyed it. The sad reality of mental health.

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  • Jo
  • 07-24-18

Interesting thriller told by an unusual narrator

It's a great story with unexpected twists and well written narrative and pacing that keeps you interested all the way to the end. Fans of Scandi noir will definitely enjoy this book.

Wasn't so sold in the performance but the story was gripping enough to forgive the flat monotonous reader. Also was quite distracting because he had atrocious pronunciation of Korean words and names including the author's name.

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  • Jhan M Rushton
  • 07-15-22

Dull

Had heard good things about this book but it was so dull. Not exactly thrilling.

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  • Joanna
  • 12-16-21

Complex characters but boring and too slow.

~ Quick Summary ~

Yu-Jin wakes up covered in blood and finds his mother murdered. Due to a medical condition he has little memory of what had happened the night before.

~ Pick this up if you enjoy/don’t mind ~

🐢 Very slow pace and a slow burn

🔪 Discover the murderer quite early on. The question is why?

🧍 Focus on Yu-Jin

🎭 Psychological thriller (not an exciting thriller though)

~ What I enjoyed ~

I liked the format, how we switch between present and past timelines and the mother’s dairy to learn more about Yu-Jin and what could have led to that moment.

The climax and ending was more exciting and captured my attention.

Yu-Jin was a very complex and interesting character.

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This was really boring, drawn out and slow. Usually walking is the perfect activity to pair with audio books, but I just kept on losing focus!! I even tried to relisten to the first hour but I still have little recollection of it.

The transition from current to past tense was very subtle and sometimes I don’t realise we’re not in the present timeline anymore. Most likely because I was so disengaged.

The past time had a lot of everyday and insignificant details which made it feel so long. It slowly got more interesting but most of it was a struggle to listen to! Any surprise to the reveals was quickly overtaken by boredom.