Thank you for writing this. I had such a deep sense of dissatisfaction after finishing the final chapter. The storytelling capacity of the author left a great deal to be desired. There were times when I would read the chapters, and it would seem disjointed or as though a scene was removed because some conversations were left open or glossed over, and that frustrated me immensely. I was disappointed that the author didn't even have Jiwon disclose his history with that abusive gymnastics coach to Jungwoo. This would have accomplished two things: increased the depth of his and Jungwoo's relationship and served to inform Jiwon's character, so Jungwoo can better understand where he is coming from and why Jiwon decides to take certain actions or use his words in a way that can be hurtful to Jungwoo.
I'll leave it here for now, but honestly, I don't think the story was worth the time I invested in it, and I regret reading it. Ah well.
Yeah I spent a couple days reading it after seeing some TikTok about it that made it look interesting. I really wish people would learn how to discern high vs low quality writing because I keep getting recommended shit and it wastes my time when I read it and there are just so many glowing reviews like grow one single hought please
Yeah I spent a couple days reading it after seeing some TikTok about it that made it look interesting. I really wish people would learn how to discern high vs low quality writing because I keep getting recommended shit and it wastes my time when I read it and there are just so many glowing reviews like grow one single thought please
There are a couple reasons this isn’t my favorite but the biggest bone I have to pick is that Jiwon never went back to gymnastics and he never really thinks about it, like you don’t win a gold medal without having /real/ passion and it’s a super overlooked part of his character that the author didn’t use to its full potential at all. They either needed to scale down his achievement or adjust his personality. I feel like it would have been really interesting if he had retained passion while having an injury that would never fully heal. Definitely would add some delicious angst but then again that wasn’t exactly the tone author was going for. The characters are just too shallow overall.
I have to wonder if this is just a discrepancy between the novel thought (at least I think there’s a novel) there was a LOT hinting at Jiwon’s motivations for doing gymnastics in the first place, besides initial motivations he was litterally abused by his coach at one point in the story he said that he like gymnastics so much because being in the air like that felt like being a bird soaring through the sky, he had such a primal yearning for freedom. God that would be a great story in and of itself, like ditch all of the romance and it’s just him escaping his coach and everything that drags him down and learning to be free. That would probably be a better story than this.
Speaking of dragging that’s what I’m doing so bye before I write anymore.