At the End of the Road

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**First Review

Story 10/10
This story is about our MC, Taemin, swapping bodies with another character, Siwon, after he dies. It was difficult for him because he did not know anything about this character beforehand. This was a difficult concept to cover because the author clearly does not know from experience how someone would react. However, I found the way she told the story was done very well. The author showed that becoming a different person, completely changing the way you live, and being given many new privileges does not change who you are. Although Taemin was now in a weak body, and was struggling academically, he ... still persevered and accepted every opportunity he was not afforded before. The story is very complex so I feel like the way the author switches perspectives is very well done. The author does not continously switch perspectives from Taemin a lot as to not confuse readers, but the author does do so sometimes to give background on events or characters that could not be given with Taemin's perspective. I think overall it was done very well. The author wrote it well enough that the story engaged me to the point where I cried when it was sad, laughed when it was funny, and was happy in happy moments. I really enjoyed it.

Art 10/10
This story is a full color Shounen Ai story which had a very standard manwha art style, but I felt like the art style represented the characters personalities well. Taemin, who is a strong character that had to work for everything he had, and went through his entire life struggling, was drawn as a tall character with dark features. Siwon, who was a very soft and vulnerable character, was drawn short with soft features, etc. Overall, I enjoyed the art style very much. Although it was simple, it came to life, distinguishable, and easy to follow.

Character 8/10
I really enjoyed Taemin and Siwoon's characters. They are two very complex character's who were represented well. The author included the character's childhoods which helped explain why the character's had toxic traits, and why the did certain things we would consider abnormal. Also, although most of Taemin and Siwoon had dark and strong personalities, the characters were still given quirks that made me fall in love with them like their humor or cute obliviousness. The way the author personalized the characters was well balanced. The supporting cast also added interest to the story by having their own interesting backgrounds, ideas, funny jokes, and quirks. However, I found it slightly confusing when some supporting characters would pop in randomly, make a big impact, then completely disappear. For example, Siwon was tormented which caused him to commit suicide, but when Taemin took over his body, although he was bullied, no one seemed to do anything serious, and people began treating him nice/praising him a few chapters in. It felt slightly rushed, and I did not feel like the relationship between him and the other character's was developed enough.

Enjoyment 8/10
I thoroughly enjoyed this serious to the point that I have re-read it three times. I think the art, story line, characters, and overall execution was done nicely. Not only is the concept of a soul swap interesting, but it also included other points of drama and interest instead of focusing only on the soul swap itself. The only reason I did not completely enjoy the story was because I felt like the story had some loose ends which bothered me. It felt like the author left some potential for side stories which were never executed.

Overall 9/10

So just read the entire story there, I gotta admit there were a lot of twists and turns that make you go wtf atw. Even though it has a dark setting with of course Truck-Kun making a appearance to start the whole thing off, I wasn't really super into the whole thing. Yeah it was addicting to read all 66 chapters ( although it ended in 57 chapters) but yeah I wasn't crazy about it tbh. Maybe Im reading too many manga while being in quarantine atm lol. Art wasn't bad at all and the embrace of Taemin YOON x Siwoon MIN were nice to ... see.

Yeah I want to add on a final note that Jiwook HAN is the worst sibling in the world. If you want to know why he is, read this manhwa......

The first interaction between our main couple is one of the guys brutally beating the other one up, so I knew this was gonna be sh1t from the getgo. Everyone in this story is unnecessarily cruel with the exception of our MC and the guy he switched bodies with. The rest just feel like caricatures of cruel high school students and there's just an outstanding lack of empathy. We know teenagers can be awful during school, but this just felt like it was trying TOO hard at giving us disgustingly edgy highschoolers.

The love interest of our MC is just so painfully unlikable, and ... his backstory truly doesn't make you wanna sympathize with him. He's abusive, manipulative, and overall just a horrible person. The guy that MC switched bodies got brutally r@ped and our love interest says he feels nothing about that, he even expresses how burdensome it is to see someone so weak and pathetic.

The vibes overall were awful, and the little heart this series has is carried by the MC. But my god everything else is just ROTTED and trying to hard to be edgy. Not to mention our love interest literally works together with the r@pist to "punish" the one that helped orchestrate the assault, and then we're just supposed to ignore that he was an active participant. He doesn't get even the slightest bit of punishment.

This is unsatisfying garbage and is straight up the toxic fetishized bullsh1t fujioshis fantasize about. Do yourself a favor and skip it.