STILL WITH YOU REVIEW

 

STILL WITH YOU BY LILY DEL PILAR 

This book had captivated me from the first page. The characters, the story and the lessons are beautiful. It had been on my TBR list for a few months, I was finally able to read it a few days ago. And it was worth it.

About Still With You

Family doesn't always keep you safe. 

The policeman Jong Sungguk thought that rainy afternoon would be like any other: a new routine inspection in a middle class neighbourhood of Daegu's city, South Korea. He never imagined that inside a seemingly normal house would find a dead woman and a boy locked in the attic, named Moon Daehyun, that would change his life forever. 

Book's language: Spanish 

My Thoughts

I would like to start talking about the characters. Each one of them has a strong marked personality — it makes it easy to recognise who is who. Among all of them, my favourites are the two protagonists and Lee Minki, he's Sungguk's co-worker and best friend.

I've to admit that I got emotionally attached to Daehyun. He's the cutest, I was able to see his level of innocence with the course of the story and it made my heart melt. Nevertheless, another quality of his I like the most is his stubborn personality: he was used to be the spotlight for 19 years and it made him be very demanding, but most towards Sungguk.

One of the reasons I love the elder is because he has always been a sloppy person. Regardless, he puts a lot of effort in the boy's case. Also, he doesn't care if Daehyung wants his attention all the time, or if he gets mad for little things he's not able to understand, yet.

The characters's misbelief (desire vs. fear) are easy to point out in the very first chapter — I could be able to empathise with theirs easily. The flashbacks of the story are more focused on Moon Daehyung than Sungguk, as it has more relevance to the story. The author collocated them in a way that didn't make me want to skip them to keep reading the story in the 'present' time.

Additionally, I want to highlight the plot twists of this story. When I thought I controlled the situation and I was one hundred percent sure about it, something came and changed it all once more. It played with my mind more than once.

Still with you is a heartwarming story, but it also includes mystery and a hilarious sense of humour, I found myself laughing at the second page (it has three hundred sixty one). It also touches topics about LGBT + and  family problems, including tragedies. I was able to experiment how a young adult boy sees the world for the first time, after he had lived all his life among the same walls.