{"id":2525,"date":"2024-05-19T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=2525"},"modified":"2024-05-18T11:49:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T18:49:56","slug":"book-manhwa-twilight-poem-by-kim-suji-midnight-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/05\/19\/book-manhwa-twilight-poem-by-kim-suji-midnight-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"Book (Manhwa): Twilight Poem by Kim Suji, MIDNIGHT STUDIO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Twilight Poem
<\/strong>by Kim Suji, MIDNIGHT STUDIO
published by Webtoon<\/a> (69 chapters, complete)
2022-2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This story has a controversial ending that set the comment pages afire<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What if… the angelic heroine of a story, who was abused terribly from infancy until the age of marriage, can’t stop crying<\/em>? What if… the handsome, heroic male lead forced into marriage with the female lead is a self-absorbed jerk <\/em>whose character growth heads in the right direction, but too slowly to benefit the female lead? What if… the villain is the only character who behaves consistently<\/em>? What if all of this happened in a gorgeously drawn Chinese period costume drama<\/strong>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THAT is this story!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, female leads are usually perfect, and male leads usually grow up to be admirable human beings. That… just doesn’t happen here. <\/strong> The female lead is so busy weeping and trying to martyr herself that the male lead can’t even deal, terrible things happen as a result of his neglect, and then everyone makes bold choices accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Twilight Poem character art: villain, heroine, male lead, each with their own color scheme and great hair.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I won’t post spoilers, but I think the ending was fine<\/strong>! Perfectly reasonable<\/strong>! MORE dramas should end this way! <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(If this sort of thing amuses you, I encourage you to peruse the angry reader comments at the end. The best comment was a complaint from a botanist resolving a character disagreement on whether a valley had moss or flowers in it – HILARIOUS.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The drawings are lovely, the glowing-lantern-filled scenery and palaces are well executed, the ribbon-style hair is shiny, the male lead looks like a face painted on a traditional kite when he is angry (which is most of the time)… I enjoyed that characters are flawed, I enjoyed not liking the characters<\/em>, and I even enjoyed the fact that the ending is controversial to some readers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Twilight Poem by Kim Suji, MIDNIGHT STUDIOpublished by Webtoon (69 chapters, complete)2022-2024 This story has a controversial ending that set the comment pages afire. What if… the angelic heroine of a story, who was abused terribly from infancy until the age of marriage, can’t stop crying? What if… the handsome, heroic male lead forced into … <\/p>\n

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