A review by fay_libris
Lemon by Kwon Yeo-sun

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

Lemon is a mystery book unlike any other.
While a murder is an integral part, the story focuses more on an exploration of the people left behind, than on who did it or what exactly happened.

While the search for who, how and why is present throughout the story, the questions are not being clearly answered. You can still piece together what might have happened, but it is not 100% clear. 
It is more important to see what impact the murder had on people around the victim (some close, some not) and how they continued with their lives.

The story consists of multiple POVs, which I found somewhat confusing especially in the beginning chapters, as it was not clear who we were following.

The time skips between chapters felt kind of inconsequential most of the time, as the passage of time is not really felt. If the year was not written down, I would not have noticed that multiple years had passed since the last chapter.

This book was overall quite good, although it reminded me at times why I do not normally like literary fiction.

It had nice short chapters which read rather quickly.

An interesting story about the reality of life.