책이 사라진 날

I listened to the audiobook, so I won’t get into vocab or grammar. But it was very comprehensible for me. Lots of 반말 if you wanted to practice that. Words I didn’t know were understandable through context. Like they described blue light shooting from the flying ‘thing’ so I could guess it meant spaceship.

The plot seemed pretty fun until maybe a bit after the halfway point. I didn’t like the ending at all, but it’s a kids book so lol. Cute conclusion.

However, some points in the book really rubbed me the wrong way. I can’t remember them all, but the girl saying she thought her friend turned into a black person since he was tan from running around outside all day was very strange to me. ‘흑인이 된줄 알았어’. I also found it strange she said ‘미쳤나봐‘ you must be crazy, as it’s actually more of a curse in Korean. Like kids would def get in trouble for saying that. I thought I was being sensitive but I looked in the reviews and some parents were also like ???? Why did they curse multiple times in this book (I didn’t catch more than that one time) and what was with the black person part. So yeah. I probably won’t continue with this series cause it weirded me out LOL but it’s a good intermediate chapter book if you want to practice reading.

Oh and I liked they had page turning sounds in the audiobook hehe.

This story has an extremely straightforward and simple plot perhaps a little too simple, but it makes it great for language learning.

The audiobook is just over an hour long, so I definitely recommend listening to it of you can. The only caveat there are the alien voices, I found them quite annoying, but at least the main characters's and narrator's voices are fine.

Language wise, while aliens are a main plot point, there actually isn't much alien related vocab, mainly 외계인 (alien) and 우주선 (spaceship). Other than that, there's a mix of vocab but generally not too uncommon, apart from some mimetic words here and there. The grammar is slightly harder, and a lot of the times the grammar points are abbreviated (니(까), 자(마자)), but sentences aren't that long either.