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Review: Kill Me, Kiss Me Volume 1

Kill Me, Kiss Me Volume 1 Kill Me, Kiss Me Volume 1 by Lee Young You
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

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This is a review of only the first volume. To read my series review please click Here.

3.5/5 stars.

I liked this a lot more than I thought I would...

This is basically Shakespeare's Twelfth Night set in a Korean high school. Tae has got Bieber fever on this model named Kung Kang. Her lookalike cousin sees posters of Kung up in Taes room and comments on how he didn't know his classmate was a model. Cue Taes brilliant plan of the ol' gender switcheroo and now she's dressed up as her cousin and going to his school, and vice versa. Since she's now a boy, but also a girl, sexual confusion occurs just like in Twelfth Night.

I honestly had no idea what this was about prior to reading it, I don't even know why I bought the two volumes. This is what Book Outlet does to me, so many books for so cheap I just buy them all. Thinking about the synopsis now, it does seem intriguing.

The biggest put-off for me was definitely the incredibly cheesy art style. With the long bangs, huge shiny eyes, long skinny limbs, super baggy wrinkle ridden clothes, shiny sparkle backgrounds, it was a mess. This is the reason western folk get put off by anime. But I stuck through it, and like I said, I really did enjoy it.

It's actually a pretty intense story. There's a lot of fighting surprisingly. And other things that are spoilery. (view spoiler) It was pretty entertaining which was really surprising. I want to read the next volumes ASAP but alas, it is 12:38am and I stayed up just reading the first volume, and I can't read my paperbacks in the dark. Either way I have school tomorrow so reading this now in the first place was a bad idea. I just wasn't expecting it to draw me in like this.


I want to give it four stars just for how much I enjoyed it, so that's what I did. But I'm saying it's actually 3.5 because it's really not like high brow literature or anything. I feel like it's more like guilty pleasure type reading.

The thing is, I feel like this one volume had its own whole entire ark, so it's like, what else can there be? This was Twelfth Night. What's the next one going to be? It's not going to have anymore of the stuff in this book because this book already had its beginning, middle, and end. I think that's why I liked it so much, because I usually don't get into mangas from the first volumes. I need more time to get attached to the story.

Anyway, still excited to get onto the next one. Hopefully it's good.


Feb 19 Re-read Review:,
I was planning on starting the fourth volume, but I kind of realized that I somewhat forgot what happened in this first volume (and also I just wanted to reread it because it's so good) so I reread it.

This series definitely has a lot of issues (as in problems, not chapters), but it's just so entertaining nonetheless.


Click to read all of my Kill Me, Kiss Me Reviews:
Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3
Volume 4
Volume 5
Series Review

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