Goong 6
Posted: November 19, 2009 Filed under: Goong 1 Comment »So Hee Park – Yen Press – 2009 – 21+ volumes
This is such a good series, but the volumes are alternately fascinating and insanely frustrating because the characters are just so horrible to each other. Chae-Kyung and Shin continue to fight like cats and dogs whenever they are together. The promising situation set up at the end of last volume (that the awkwardness between the two would be solved if they spent a night together) plays out for quite a long time at the beginning here, but it alternates wildly between passionate moments between the two and the two yelling at each other.
I always feel terribly for Chae-Kyung. She can’t do anything right, but she sees more good in the royalty than they see in themselves, it seems. In Shin’s case, she puts up with him because she knows he’s lacking social skills and just doesn’t communicate well (which doesn’t really give him the right to be an asshole, but at least he always seems to regret it afterwards). She also starts turning against Yul here after seeing what he’s after, though she still bends and gives in to his niceness in the face of Shin’s cruelty. Then Shin lashes out against her being nicer to Yul than him, and… it’s all a vicious cycle.
I sincerely hope things get better for Chae-Kyung. I want to see her make up with Shin, I want to see Shin finally break down and tell her his feelings (though he keeps dancing around it, but she just doesn’t seem to believe him and I don’t blame her), and I want to see Yul and his mother… well, I want something terrible and humbling to happen to them. Whatever. I’m sure it’ll only be more drama from here on out, and I have to say… as much as I want to nice stuff to happen, I come here for the drama, don’t I? It’s absolutely irresistible. I am completely addicted to this series.
[...] also reviews volume six of Goong (Yen Press) at her own blog, Slightly Biased Manga. At Manga Bookshelf, guest reviewer Megan M. [...]