![]() This worked well at some points at others, I felt the narrative lacked a little emotion. ![]() Kwon explores some serious topics here, using punchy prose to do so. Leal was ‘kidnapped by North Korean agents’ whilst helping ‘to smuggle Korean refugees toward asylum in Seoul’, and ‘thrown into a prison camp outside of Pyeongyang.’ So, here I am, trying.’ The second character Kwon focuses on is John Leal, essentially the current ‘leader’ of the cult. In the first of these, Will’s, he says: ‘But this is where I start having trouble, Phoebe… You once told me I hadn’t even tried to understand. The Incendiaries is comprised of a series of short chapters, told from different perspectives. Will is a ‘misfit scholarship boy’ who describes himself as a ‘juvenile born-again’, and who has transferred from a Bible college of course, he swiftly falls in love with Phoebe, but ‘struggles to confront the obsession consuming the one he loves and the fundamentalism he’s tried to escape.’ There is a plot twist of sorts, in which Phoebe disappears, and which everyone has to come to terms with. Phoebe is reeling from her mother’s recent death, which she believes she caused, and is ‘increasingly drawn into a religious group – a secretive cult tied to North Korea’. ![]() Our protagonists are Phoebe Lin and Will Kendall they meet one another when they have just enrolled in a prestigious college in upstate New York. ![]()
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