Reason #4327 as to why the only living creature that will ever bear witness to me on this site is my cat
If, like me, you're a fan of darker stories with morally gray characters that subvert expectations, and thought, "how bad could this be?": Don't waste your time. The plot is hot garbage with brain dead characters all around
I remember seeing a post on another forum a while back where Aaron was pictured as the fourth black flag of the apocalypse (Ilay, Caesar and Zhenya being the other three) and everyone was super confused as to why he was included...but holy hell, that post has aged like fine wine! I mean, Aaron's a freaking saint compared to the others, but still, he's now officially on the list (arguably around Taeju-level)
Mah boi go from green/yellow flag to orange/red flag real quick after finding Yujin ┻┻︵ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ︵┻┻
I loved the depth the author gave to the friendships and redemption beyond just the main characters. While not a perfect story, I rate this a solid 9.5/10 for character development, pace, and storytelling. Small detractor and probably just a translation error, but describing all of her steps with "clomp" was rather hilarious and made me wonder if she secretly had size 11 feet..
Didn't hate it, but I wouldn't read again. I agree with an earlier commenter that all the angst, jealousy, crazed behavior would have landed better if we had more context and back story. MC clearly has some issues (aloof, socially anxious etc) and it's hinted there is childhood trauma there, but we're mostly left to fill in the blanks. ML, on the other hand, behaves like someone with serious anxious attachment but we hear about this mostly through other the characters as a "shitty personality", so that's all we're left with. All in all, the characters and story would have been more compelling if they had a bit more depth
The cooking teacher is the best part about this manhwa, wish she was the main character
The chopping and changing was a bit much for my adhd brain
To each their own, but I found this to be a diabolical mix of stupid, unbelievable (hypnotism), incredibly unlikeable characters all around, and 2 dimensional. If the concepts of blending families and what that can do to a person and the abuse and trauma had been more fleshed out (the devastating life-long manipulation, bullying, and obsession/control by that utter douchebag), this could have been a really interesting. Instead, we got to witness disturbing domestic violence washed with a 'but they love each other' at the end. Much easier to write some utter garbage and slap a 'psychological' tag on it to reel people in. Art was good, tho
Wow, what a great story! Had me on the edge of my seat the whole time.
Does anyone have a good link to the translated novel? Novel updates has deleted it and Tapas is a bit spensie to cover all 2 hundred and something chapters. Other websites seem a bit dodge and/or AI translated..