❣TheRomanceEnthusiast's manga / #psychological(34)

Why is this so good? Wholesome? A guy saves a young girl from her extremely abusive environment (tortured&locked up by parents/ routine sexual assault by teacher/ bullied by classmates) and as an illegal resident the only way he could save her was via "kidnapping", the girl is immediately super grateful (since she was literally about to commit suicide since she had no hope left) and they begin living together as he shows her what a normal life is as the first person to ever treat her like a human being. They're also on the run though as the police search for her "captor" even though he says she can leave anytime & he's really just sheltering a runaway, since he can't legally be her guardian or anything that's all he can do. He doesn't try to manipulate her or anything either. They have a kinda wholesome/ slightly dark [they both have dealt with a lot of tragedy] bond. I think with the help of the PI this might have a happy ending.

(4/4/21) ch.12 suspense thriller, ks vibe... (12/11/23) ch. 64 I had higher hopes than I should have. The writing isn’t as good as I thought I’d be. Art and flow are great but the plot is a bit lacking masterpiece level. Mostly to do with the depth of the characters being too shallow and the plot itself too :(

definitely interesting with a happy ending but I can't decide with myself how good it is... what a trip.

Sexy Scary. Realllly good. Dark twisty suspense. I like the ending, it was along the lines i was hoping for actually. Overall great storytelling, gorgeous art and intense thrilling characters. Loved it 3.75 stars XD

2.25 stars Really interesting suspence thriller. The last 30 or whatever chapters is relatively tame and almost but not quite whole. Really interesting and not exactly toxic but not really sweet couple. just fascinating/ non-stop read. I do think the was too drawn out and long though but not bad at all. Smutty but not really hot/ eye candy-ish.

3.5/ 4 stars i dont get the last panel because i cant tell which characters those are... the art style is a slight draw back to the story but it was good enough. Incredibly facsinating story and I liked the world building of the typess and such and how it was a really good balance of thriller and some romance. would recommend.

1-1.5 angst on crack. Super dark tbh… ending was happy but damn that was a lot for me. 90% just dark…

ch.31 (9/16/21) i ship them both, love the main character when hes with both, he annoyed me at first but i love everyone, rip my heart in advance 6/26/23 AHHHHHDFKFBDJFBHVHAJSLRKHLBFDLSJLCAHJDB.CBDBJN BANS,MV AEDMFHVBJKLSBEFDFJKNKKMJMBGGM, KLMGSFBKLM. That how iI feel right now after finishing this. Like wtf? wtf? wtf???? AHHHHHHHHHJ First of all, masterpiece level but FUCK the end leaves me hanging. Fucking 3 year time skip fuckinghabdejhabdsjb Its good he heals by the end but how is that it? Not even a flash of their current dynamics... I mean I guess the end makes since since he learned how to not be depend and be able to live on his own and its enough that they're both still in his life :/ I just feel it leaves the relationships unresolved but the authors focus was on the trauma and healing end i guess. The whole story i was hoping for a poly thing to form and the other to to like each other or a deep friendship like they seemed to start to develop but 3 years have passed and now idk what happened to the 3 of them and its so bothersome!! Curse that time skip! I'm honestly deeply glad he healed (he feels almost like a real person to me T.T I'm too attached) but honestly I was really confused by th last few chapters and idk if it was the translations or if the author didn't convey it super well what mc was thinking, i think it might've been a little bit of both. Like after that though how did they all heal their relationships???? They were all in a pretty rough spot. Give me an extra or something dammit. Overall his trauma really what this book was about and it feels like it was expressed fully. I WOULDVE LIKED to see more of the healing arc but i guess the author had already fleshed out all the parts they wanted to express... My addiction to romance is just begging for the happy healing ever after part of the story. Marvelous job writing such a realistic story and conveying what SA / his situation can do to a person, their ability to have relationships or heal and how society treats them. This one has all the feels.

A Masterpiece for sure. Inspiring. The author did an amazing job of making a villain a hero, which i find is hard to do successfully for a lot of authors. We got the dark suspense in the first half and an almost too bright ending at the end. I absolutely love it. 4.5/5 Not in my top 10 masterpieces but still super high up there. The art was super good, I really think I'd enjoy the original novel because of the amount of SUBSTANCE it provided; with the climax as he goes to rescue Llewellyn, the motif of the soldier fairytale, the repeated crucial moment from a different perspective 3 times, even the fucking onions and the beginning of the story that makes so much since at the end after we have all the understanding of the characters. There's a hint early on that makes u question Shavonne's sanity with his long time friend actually thinking of him as a patient (later u find out about his amnesia) adding to the suspense as well. It's beautiful. I'm basically completely satisfied and impressed as a reader. If anything though I would have liked to feel the beginning's theme (it was brought back throughout too) at the end still... Like Llewlleyn is still fucked up in his sense of morals, though less fucked up, I think having an extra that leaves the readers on their toes could've been fun. I know they tried to do it with the eye thing but it wasn't effective enough lol. But tbh i'm just nitpicking a masterpiece rn Also the art wasn't like breaking the scale, 4/5 still amazing though.