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5.0
adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

From February 16th to November 4th at 1:05AM. 5683 pages on my phone later, and after having no tears left to cry, my ORV journey has finally reached its ending (let's pretend there's no extra content for a minute). I had a full on insane moment while reading the epilogue, I spent an hour simultaneously crying, reading and drinking my tea, but thankfully none of my family noticed (or else I'd have to explain why I'm full on sobbing while reading a freaking book).
For usual reviews, most of the time I like to state why I rated the book the way I did but honestly, I don't see the point in saying the usual things this time around. This book has been my great journey that lasted almost 10 full months, and to be completely honest, I could've easily read it in like two three months but I simply chose not to. Even though it literally has 5.6k pages full of words, it still wasn't enough. Halfway through I was already grieving the fact that this book and this characters are eventually going to reach the epilogue, and then the ending.
This was a complete unique experience for me on many levels, and it will leave a huge impression on me even years later. The topics discussed in the book, the ideas, the whole purpose of reading and authors and readers... The way they all mended at some point and became one was absolutely fascinating to me, and it made me realize even more just how magical reading is, and just how important it is. Even though this book is clearly fiction, it's not exactly false. Just like Kim Dokja, all of us are readers, and we all not only escape the reality by reading, we also unconsciously become the protagonists and get to experience what the characters are experiencing, and even make our own stories. At the end of the day, we're all just characters trying to reach our own 'One story' and our own epilogue, and I think that's just so beautiful.
If you've reached this after me speaking almost nonsense, thank you. I'm just really sappy rn and I don't think I will exactly ever recover from this book. When I first opened my epub of this book I first of all had no idea how long it is. Second of all I didn't expect to actually like it this much. And third of all, I had no idea it would completely change my way of thinking, just how influential it would be on my small brain. The most special thanks goes out to my girlie Sulfi who's love for this book made me not only pick it up, but actually completely fall in love with the world and it's characters. Ly so much girlie<3, and thank you for bearing with me on this long long journey, and waking up to 20+ messages occasionally on discord (even though you brought it upon yourself heh).
At last, I wanted to say thank you to Han Sooyoung, Yoo Joonghyuk and Kim Dokja. Fuck you all for making me cry for you <3