The Trunk by Kim Ryeo-Ryeong

BATB score: 5/10 💔🧳

a Netflix series book adaptation featuring Gong Ji-cheol Yoo

BATB lingering thought: I’ve always wondered what criteria were use to select books to make a series/movie adaptation from especially Netflix Original high standards; what the hell, it was a mediocre book with zero thriller nor romance nor revenge

Best as: the book’s premise of rental wife / husband is interesting; could it be that Netflix picks just the fundamental concepts of a book and then add their own dramatic interpretation to it? the TV-series trailer looks nothing like the book - but IMDb 7/10, now I need to watch it

Best to: kept reading because I thought it would lead up to something epic but it never did

Best for: zero mention about the trunk; there was one paragraph about a trunk metaphorically referring to the emotional baggage you carry; wait a minute, could all this be a lost in translation?

Best quotes: “When I was little, I believed that the world would understand me once I became a grown-up. But when I became a grown-up, I realized that it was I who now understood the world.”

“I had never liked people who used their kindness to do whatever they wanted, knowing that you wouldn’t be able to refuse. These people would corner you with kindness and leave you no room to breathe. They also thought their idea of kindness was everyone else’s idea of kindness.”

“If someone regretted their life, it didn’t necessarily mean that they didn’t live it right.”

“People around me only cared about the person I was seeing. No one asked if I was happy. And no one was interested in my unhappiness.”