It's more than just smut, and while it does focus on homosexuality, it's so much more than that. It's about struggles, it's about accepting, it's about overcoming. It depicts emotions in such a raw way, it makes you sick.
The story starts off in a gruesome way, already hitting you in the face with SA, and the main character's state of mind is portrayed in a realistic and beautiful way, how he is fucked up in the head after being a victim of a kidnapping and rape is. The way that in the start of the story he's shaken up having visions of his abuser, then towards the middle where he seems to be "better" and towards the end where it all goes down and he gives up on being "sane", going back to meet his abuser.
It's a sad, melancholic story that is made to shake you to your core as a human being and question the morality of the situation. The scenes where hyung gets panic attacks and downfalls are all too well done. You can feel the character's emotions, you can relate to him, you can understand him. Not such a satisfying end but one he deserved. I think the author should have dragged out more that ending part, as it turned out to be too brief and quick, seems a bit rushed even.
I liked the title chosen for the story too. It fits well with the theme. The Ouroboros serpent is meant to be a positive symbol that represents unity and the natural eternal cycle of destruction and re-creation. The part where it shows the most is in the chapter where hyung, when he came home late night drunk, SAs Boguk while he was sleeping. The way he repeats all the words that people said to him back at Boguk, who also suffered from SA in the past, really makes you see the "never ending cicle" of abuse and violence. Healing and moving on at the end shows how after theres destruction, there is re-creation.
It's more than just smut, and while it does focus on homosexuality, it's so much more than that. It's about struggles, it's about accepting, it's about overcoming. It depicts emotions in such a raw way, it makes you sick.
The story starts off in a gruesome way, already hitting you in the face with SA, and the main character's state of mind is portrayed in a realistic and beautiful way, how he is fucked up in the head after being a victim of a kidnapping and rape is. The way that in the start of the story he's shaken up having visions of his abuser, then towards the middle where he seems to be "better" and towards the end where it all goes down and he gives up on being "sane", going back to meet his abuser.
It's a sad, melancholic story that is made to shake you to your core as a human being and question the morality of the situation. The scenes where hyung gets panic attacks and downfalls are all too well done. You can feel the character's emotions, you can relate to him, you can understand him. Not such a satisfying end but one he deserved. I think the author should have dragged out more that ending part, as it turned out to be too brief and quick, seems a bit rushed even.
I liked the title chosen for the story too. It fits well with the theme. The Ouroboros serpent is meant to be a positive symbol that represents unity and the natural eternal cycle of destruction and re-creation. The part where it shows the most is in the chapter where hyung, when he came home late night drunk, SAs Boguk while he was sleeping. The way he repeats all the words that people said to him back at Boguk, who also suffered from SA in the past, really makes you see the "never ending cicle" of abuse and violence. Healing and moving on at the end shows how after theres destruction, there is re-creation.
Great writing. It's a good book. (▰˘◡˘▰)