Wow, Kim Jiyoung is such a powerful and vitally important book. I can’t remember the last time I was so affected by a book, I felt so angry about each of the female character’s experiences, so I infuriated that these kinds of things still happen all the time nowadays. 

Kim Jiyoung has started a necessary and long needed conversation around gender inequalities in all parts of life and the world, not just South Korea. The way Nam-Joo mentions countless pieces of literature to show how it isn’t just a made up tale of one woman being affected by made up sexism is really well done, and very unique, in a way I haven’t seen done before in a book which is mostly fictional, despite being based on women’s real daily experiences. 

The dig right at the end from the psychologist hit so close to home, as the one person who supposedly knows her condition and experiences better than any other, and really solidified the anger and frustration I felt towards the messages in the book. Really, really well done. 

I really loved reading this story and took so much from it, having been recommended it by a friend myself, and will be sure to highlight it as a must-read for so many others if I can. You have to read this.