The Crustacean by Jang JinyeongMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Narrated by Jesse Baek
Presented by Octopus Audio
A strange book, that's mostly kind of dull until you get into the secrets.
It follows a lonely teenager as she seeks attention in many destructive ways, but without the context it's quite hard to like the protagonist. I guess that's probably the point.
This is a rather short story, about innocence and its destruction. It's not really long enough to be clever and memorable, but it raises some interesting ideas about the fragility and impressionability of youth.
The narrator does a decent job, but the voice didn't feel quite right to me. It was easy enough to listen to, but there were strange inflections here and there, with a few awkward pauses and emphases. I'd happily give this narrator another chance, though.
It was an average sort of story for me, but a full length novel of a similar idea would be rather interesting from this perspective.
With thanks to NetGalley for an audio ARC
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