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Review: Kill Me, Kiss Me Volume 2

Kill Me, Kiss Me Volume 2 Kill Me, Kiss Me Volume 2 by Lee Young You
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I was dreading this possibility.... but this volume wasn't as good as the first. I loved the gang from the first book, Tae, Kun Kang, and Ga-woon, but they basically only had cameos in this book. It went to the point where I actually felt NOSTALGIC when a scene with them came. Kinda weird, since I read the first volume yesterday. Someone this book had a lot more of was Jung-Woo.

Jung-Woo is a huge asshole in this really careless way that makes the girls go wild. I may or may not be included. Shh. This new girl named Que-Min is introduced and she beats some hoes who were (s)mackin' on Jung-Woo. The rest of the book is basically Que-Min following Jung-Woo and being in denial about her obsession with him. That, and this new gang is introduced and they have a problem with Jung-Woo.

This is something I never got. Why the hell are they mad at him anyway?? This is what I understood: way in the beginning when Que destroys those chicks, this gang thought Jung did it and got mad? But I don't think that's right because reasons so never mind. Colour me still confused. So this book also has a LOT of fighting in it, and I don't really get why Jung was so good at fighting?

The story was just less interesting in this one. There wasn't even much romance, just the girls wanting Ga-Woon and Kun to go homo for eachother, and some hints that Ga-Woon and Tae might be an item now. I personally ship the latter.

I didn't really care for any of the new characters, of which there was an abundance. If anything I kind of ship what happens at the end which is a spoiler so I can't say it. (view spoiler) That was pretty much the extent of my care for these new characters. It was nice how much of a badass Que-Min was, though.

This book was pretty funny, though the humor tapered before even the halfway point I think. The way the characters talk is pretty funny in this non-serious silly way. For example, I read Body's Ghost Volume 3 recently. (Go read my review for that book once you finish this one... you know you want to.) That's a more serious series, though it definitely has it's humor. The dialogue in Kiss Me Kill Me was how I joked around pretending the dialogue to be in Body's Ghost. A character might say, "I'm gonna kill you!" and I'd be silly and think it'd be funny if they'd actually said, "I'm going to beat your skank-ass to a pulp!" or something like that. Well in Kiss Me Kill Me characters actually talked like the second quote.

"AHHHGK! MY RIBS! I'M DYIN'!"
"STOP KICKING ME, YOU WHORE!"

Those were actual quotes from the official Tokyo Pop translation. I found it funny how informal it was, and I was really happy that the dialogue wasn't censored.

Something I heard someone complain about with the first volume (of which I do not own a physical copy of) is that the text was often too close to the spine opening (I don't know what else to call it... the middle where the pages connect) and it was hard to read. Oh boy, that was VERY true with my book as well. I feel like it even gave me a bit of a headache craning my eyes to try and see the words crammed into the crack. Not fun.

I still enjoyed this book because of how wacky it is, but it just doesn't live up to it's predecessor. I have volume 3 already so I'm going to read that soon.


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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