Rating (Out of 5): ~2.5
Publisher: Netcomics
Release Date: 2006
Volumes: 4.
Spoilers?: No.
Volume 1: Amazon (Kindle). Barnes and Noble. Book Depository. RightStuf.
Goodreads Synopsis:
Seyoung is an ordinary
17-year-old schoolgirl who plays mediocre roles in her school's drama
productions. Her real-life drama develops as she finds herself falling
for her childhood playmate Hyunwoo, who he is drifting away from her and
toward a TV star schoolmate named Hyemi. When Seyoung works up the
nerve to profess her feelings to Hyunwoo, he thinks she is merely
working on her acting Seyoung lives out her youth as if the entire world
is a stage, but as she basks in the bright lights of innocence she
seeks someone in the audience to recognize the light within her. Written
by Korea's eminent writer Kyungok Kang, Narration of Love at 17 is a
classic that will take you for a ride back to reliving your first love.
Review:
This
series starts off very slow, and it was so hard to keep reading.
Story and time skips forward and it was hard to follow, there wasn’t
enough development to make me care, it was boring, nor particularly
nice to look at (the covers are prettier than the inside).
By
the second half of the third volume, and then into this one, it was
easier. Easier to follow the characters and who they were and what
they wanted. It was feeling more fluid and not so jerky. By the end
of the series, I was okay with it. It was easier to read, but I still
didn’t particularly care about the characters. I did like the
Captain, and I liked that Seyoung and Hyunjung were real friends and
that they truly cared about each other. But otherwise I didn’t care
about Seyoung much, nor did I feel her lasting cruch on Yunho or her
envy toward the other girls.
Then
the ending, which is so open and just kind of ends at a point. I’m
mostly just disappointed with this series, and glad to be done with
it.
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