Gu Byeong-Mo: The Old Woman with the Knife

The Old Woman with the Knife (affiliate link) is about a 65-year-old female assassin. The book is promised to be a "stunningly exciting action thriller".

Yeah, no. The book focuses on the boring everyday life of an assassin working under the pseudonym Hornclaw and the ailments of old age. The idea of ​​the book is better than its execution.

That there is supposedly an entire industry and numerous offices in Korea for assassins, who have lots of assignments. How many people do they kill in Korea every day without the murderers getting caught? Quite a lot, I see.

And the fact that the 65-year-old is supposedly so old and frail that she doesn't even remember to feed her dog? Yeah, no.

 

 

Freida McFadden: The Housemaid Is Watching

The Housemaid Is Watching (affiliate link) is the third book in Freida McFadden's The Housemaid series.

Millie and Enzo move with their children to a house that is too expensive for their budget. The new neighbors are of course suspicious and unpleasant. Then something shocking happens.

There is a fair amount of consensus among readers about this book, that it is a completely pointless effort. Many have been disappointed, and hope that the series will end. Like many others, I did not recognize these characters. Nothing really exciting happened or was happening.

Personally, I never like it when "thrillers" focus only on boring everyday life and home life.

The Housemaid Is Watching takes place 11 years after the previous book. Quite a leap in time. And of course, everyone always wants that idyllic family life in the suburbs. Even those who have previously lived a slightly more unconventional life.