It's the second time I'm reading this manhwa. And it made me cry and bawl my eyes out for a second time. It's amazing. The art style, the characters and their development, it's honestly so good. An incredible read, for sure.
I read this almost exactly 2 yeses ago. It took me a bit longer than it did now. I think a couple of days? Because I had other things to do. But now, in the span of a bit more than 24 hours, it's finished even though I was out for some parts of the day.
I have actually been meaning to read it again for a very long time now, but I couldn't make myself go through 140 chapters when I already know everything about the story. But I don't regret it, because it turns out, I didn't remember absolutely everything, especially the feeling of chills running down my spine or goosebumps appearing on my skin, the feeling of overwhelming sadness and horrifying terror during those many and splendidly done traumatic deaths. So, it was absolutely worth it.
My sort of thinking with this was that I shouldn't waste my time on something I've finished, I should start something new. But I had been missing it a lot for some time now, so I gave in and it was a good decision.
The story itself actually happens after some events that take place in the manhwa written after this one, Shotgun boy. I am planning on finishing that one too. I immediately picked up shotgun boy 2 years ago after finishing Sweet home, because I was feeling depressed after completing this masterpiece and seemingly having northing to read. But I reached about 50 episodes??? Somewhere there, it wasn't finished yet, so I had to sit my ass down and wait patiently. 2 years later, I am back. I started from the beginning, I shall read Shotgun boy till the end as well.
Hyun is incredibly impressive, I have always loved those certain characters that can power through extremely tough situations and seeing how he was naturally recognized by the others made my chest swell with pride, what can I say?
Something funny is, I felt the exact same emotions throughout the different parts of the story as I did back then. Meaning, in the beginning I disliked Hyun, it almost made me drop the whole manhwa after reading just a couple of chapters. But I decided to stay. Fast forward two years later, I remember why he distanced himself from his family but I don't remember how intense it was for both sides. I disliked the fact that he cursed his mother and said some horrible things. I felt horrible just reading it. I remembered why he did those things, but I didn't remember it in detail. When we later on find out the reason, I could understand. The same thing happened when I first read this.
I also thought the deaths and sad scenes wouldn't get to me, because I have already seen them and honestly remembered some of the important people who would die. But I was still shook by them and still cried. So I guess I remembered the events but not how they make a person feel. So it caught me off guard but made me happy, that I could enjoy this manhwa as much as I did back then, even though I knew some of the jumpscares and some other things, like how Hyun is gonna return. But it still hurt a lot just seeing the scene play out, even though I knew the outcome.
Good job to the author, I finally gave this a review too, I have been meaning to since ages ago, that's one of the reasons I decided to reread it, to have it fresh in my memory.
Sweet Home