{"id":2516,"date":"2024-05-12T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=2516"},"modified":"2024-05-12T18:00:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T01:00:36","slug":"book-manhwa-in-the-bleak-midwinter-by-kat-ali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/05\/12\/book-manhwa-in-the-bleak-midwinter-by-kat-ali\/","title":{"rendered":"Book (Manhwa): In the Bleak Midwinter by Kat, Ali"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Inthebleakmidwinter-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Cover art for in the Bleak Midwinter on Webtoon\" class=\"wp-image-2517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Inthebleakmidwinter-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Inthebleakmidwinter-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Inthebleakmidwinter-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Inthebleakmidwinter.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In the Bleak Midwinter <br><\/strong>by Kat, Ali<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.webtoons.com\/en\/sf\/in-the-bleak-midwinter\/list?title_no=1946\">published by Webtoon<\/a> (37 chapters, ongoing)<br>2020 &#8211; present<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, another sci-fi story! YAAAAAAY!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anya decides to cryogenically sleep for a year to avoid processing grief for her mother and sister in android-related accidents, only to wake up 25 years later in a human-versus-android hellscape.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Worse, the digital readout on her wrist which was counting down the years and minutes until she meets her &#8220;soulmate&#8221; lights up when she leaves her cryo-pod and sees a man&#8230; <strong><em>who immediately shoots her dead<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>What the hell? <\/em> Well, that was a short review, onto the next&#8230; wait, <strong>she comes back to life?<\/strong>  And multiple people are after her as an advantage they could use to win the war they&#8217;ve been waging while she slept?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone has Russian names, it snows constantly, Anya has terrible nightmares, and her brother is still a jerk (because some things never change). The art is a mix of video-game textures, eerie lights with convincing halos, and characters that look best straight on or in full profile.  I like the eeriness and ambiguity of the characters called The Ten, and Anya&#8217;s combination of being terrified yet also being willing to try very risky plans rather than watch other humans die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each episode has music, which adds to the mood (but you can keep it very low).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m delighted to find a sci-fi story on the Webtoon platform.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Bleak Midwinter by Kat, Alipublished by Webtoon (37 chapters, ongoing)2020 &#8211; present Finally, another sci-fi story! YAAAAAAY! Anya decides to cryogenically sleep for a year to avoid processing grief for her mother and sister in android-related accidents, only to wake up 25 years later in a human-versus-android hellscape. Worse, the digital readout on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/05\/12\/book-manhwa-in-the-bleak-midwinter-by-kat-ali\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Book (Manhwa): In the Bleak Midwinter by Kat, Ali&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[266,265,8],"class_list":["post-2516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-graphical-fiction","tag-manhwa","tag-science-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2518,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516\/revisions\/2518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}