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Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint Volume 1 by singNsong, 싱숑

12 reviews

kai_lynn127's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny lighthearted mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I've read all of this series that is currently out and am in love.

The characters and the plot are insane and I was hooked immediately. I would recommend this series to literally anyone wanting to get into comics/graphic novels. (Edit: I accidentally reviewed the novel and not the manhwa like I had intended lol)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death, Cursing, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, and War

If you're triggered by detailed violence and murder, intense and physically abusive bullying, and child abuse, I would be carful when considering reading this book/series.

niakantorka's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

Kim Dokja is a nobody turned MC and him being omniscient in this apocalyptic setting is the most interesting premise. I loved the webtoon/manhwa and am sad that it’ll take years for it to be finished in English (I wish I could read Korean). The art style is breathtaking and I found it too funny that Yoo Jonghyuk is deemed super handsome and Kim Dokja ugly when they basically look super similar when you just compare their faces. I loved the whole cast of women, men and children of whom all had their special talents and backgrounds and secrets. The best thing was the amount of plot twists though. They started early and only grew in their dimension and became groundbreaking. By now I’ve found the web novel and I’m going to read it from the start to finish. Just close to 10 k of pages to go. 🤗

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, and Murder

annieogg's review

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Death, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, and Cannibalism

partlyclaudia's review

adventurous dark emotional funny lighthearted sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

literallt amazing. world building is INSANE and i would d!e for all of the characters. twists are so unexpected and thrilling and somehow it just keeps getting BETTER. read the webtoon but wanted to log ;). devoured everything available in like two days. will continue to reread. i live for kim dokja and yoo jonghyuk’s dynamic i hope they get married. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Murder

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

whitelotusreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes

4.25

This is a behemoth of a novel and it took me nearly five months to finish it. Honestly, the novel’s clunky translation made it even more challenging for me and I kinda lost the plot in the middle (thought that it was too long-winded). But I must say, the last few chapters and the epilogues definitely redeemed this novel for me. Absolutely batshit insane plot. Wild, but fun ride.

Hope this gets licensed officially in English, would love to give this another try!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Minor: Transphobia

yoursam's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

a story about stories !!!!!!! about being human!!!!!!! i wish i could add more but it'll take me five to seven business days to recover from how good this is AND i need to start volume two right now. immediately.

there's a lot of lines i would like to put here, but let's just go with one (1) otherwise i'll just be here all day lmao:

"...I won't give up on this life."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

wickedgrumpy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

This is my second time reading this story and even knowing what happens, how it all ends, it still did emotional damage, but in the best way.

I've been thinking about how it feels like a love note or perhaps a magnum opus of appreciation to readers as a whole.  It extols the joys and importance of rereading a beloved story.  It perfectly encapsulates the escapism aspect that allows people to survive through difficult times when you just need to exist in a world different from your own.  There's empathy in the connection to well fleshed out characters.  When a story makes you feel something, gut wrenching as it can be, it's done something special.

The message that even if a conclusion is not ideal, even if it didn't turn out the way you expected, it shouldn't be considered a failure.  Everyone has different expectations of the end.

The inclusions of myths, and stories being interpreted or manipulated in different ways is one of the many ways it is self-referential/meta.  This is also shown as a moral for authors as well.  Once something has been written and published you lose control over how it is perceived.  You can explain your intentions but everyone will see something different or focus on some minutiae that brings meaning to them that can be vastly different from the author's point of view.  With that in mind, I know that there are a lot of fans that might ship certain characters --which honestly I love because that means people care about the characters created and want to imagine them in their own version of possibilities and that is exactly in the spirit of the book-- but if you think that this is a romance, it is not.  (Which now that I am reviewing what I have written I did say it was a love story so...  Oh well.)

Will likely edit this review as my thoughts process a bit. (For fun - times edited: 2)

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

magatsumandala's review

adventurous dark funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Violence

Minor: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Rape

pip72156907's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I love ORV with all my heart, mainly because I have never once gotten bored while reading it. You'd think that with such a long novel, your interest in it would fade, but all i want to do is read and keep reading this masterpiece. 
If you're wondering where to read it, go to the Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint subreddit and the "about" section has links to read it on the web and also to download it.
Some advice: Don't feel the need to rush and finish all 550 chapters in a week. I would suggest savoring this story. This book isn't one that you skim and finish fast just so you can brag "hey i finished orv in 5 days!!". NO. Enjoy reading it because when else are you going to be able to say "im reading orv for the first time". Rereading somehow doesn't hit the same, so have fun and feel happy, sad, excited, surprised, terrified, triumphant, devastated, and lots of other feels with the amazing characters :)

#1 Uriel stan right here

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Grief, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, and Death of parent

Minor: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Vomit, Murder, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

bakatan's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Colonisation

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Violence, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail