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yanwangji's review
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? N/A
2.25
sunnnyy's review
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
jazreaderflower's review
adventurous
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
1.0
khyie's review
mysterious
slow-paced
2.0
I... have so so many questions. Most of them are just variations on why? And also just a lot of ??????? I have never worked on a train and also... I have only been on exactly two trains that were not city subway systems and both of those trips were for less than 4 hours but I sincerely do not believe that the way things played out in this story could ever possibly be accurate. I'm not adverse to some suspension of belief if I'm having a good time but everything about this novel required you suspend belief. The last third of the book, I honestly just wanted it to be over and I was dragging myself through by constantly telling myself it was shorter than most of the cnovels I've been reading.
Some highlights of wtfery, most of which are spoilers...
1. The MC and ML have a grand total of one(1) conversation, lasting less than 5 minutes, before they're screwing in the train bathroom--while MC is still pretty convinced that ML murdered a child (I think he was a child... they were ambiguous about his age... maybe mid-teens?)
2. Where the fuck were these people hiding on a TRAIN that no one could find them even though they supposedly knew the train backwards and forwards?
3. The timeline of this book is LESS THAN 2 DAYS and the MC and ML go from complete strangers to passionately in love within that timeframe. wtf...
4.There were so many explosions on this train. So many explosions. Why?
5. Everything about the CEO's convoluted plot to frame and then exonerate the ML was just... *waves hands* I saw that with my eyeballs and I still cannot fucking believe it.
6. Look, man. I'm going to be 100% honest. You can tell me if you greatly disagree with this but if you tell me that the train I'm on for potentially days has a wanted criminal on it, suspected of having murdered a kid by beating him to death, and you need me to be inconvenienced a bit so that you can find said suspect... please fucking inconvenience me. Please. Do not pull the weird fucking shenanigans that this novel did and just be like "let's continue to go on our two day journey even though I KNOW who's responsible for the murder and I can get authorities involved to assist me."
7. No. Seriously. I cannot understand why they couldn't delay the train in Wushuan to get local authorities involved in helping them find and remove the criminals from the train. No explosions would've needed to happen and no people would've been murdered. I think. I'm pretty sure they murdered that woman after Wushuan. Whyyyyyyyyyy?
8. That ending with MC's family... what even was that? Am I supposed to be happy for him? I don't think that was closure. I've seen way too many stories where a parent treats their kid like shit and the other parent's like 'no, you just don't understand! When you're not there he (it's always a he) really cares about you!' and that's somehow supposed to make it better. Garbage.
9. I really can't tell if it's the translation or the writing that made so many things in this novel contradictory. They would say or think one thing and then a paragraph later, it's the exact opposite without any development to get to that point.
Some highlights of wtfery, most of which are spoilers...
1.
2. Where the fuck were these people hiding on a TRAIN that no one could find them even though they supposedly knew the train backwards and forwards?
3. The timeline of this book is LESS THAN 2 DAYS and the MC and ML go from complete strangers to passionately in love within that timeframe. wtf...
4.
5. Everything about the CEO's convoluted plot to frame and then exonerate the ML was just... *waves hands* I saw that with my eyeballs and I still cannot fucking believe it.
6. Look, man. I'm going to be 100% honest. You can tell me if you greatly disagree with this but if you tell me that the train I'm on for potentially days has a wanted criminal on it, suspected of having murdered a kid by beating him to death, and you need me to be inconvenienced a bit so that you can find said suspect... please fucking inconvenience me. Please. Do not pull the weird fucking shenanigans that this novel did and just be like "let's continue to go on our two day journey even though I KNOW who's responsible for the murder and I can get authorities involved to assist me."
7. No. Seriously. I cannot understand why they couldn't delay the train in Wushuan to get local authorities involved in helping them find and remove the criminals from the train. No explosions would've needed to happen and no people would've been murdered. I think. I'm pretty sure they murdered that woman after Wushuan. Whyyyyyyyyyy?
8. That ending with MC's family... what even was that? Am I supposed to be happy for him? I don't think that was closure. I've seen way too many stories where a parent treats their kid like shit and the other parent's like 'no, you just don't understand! When you're not there he (it's always a he) really cares about you!' and that's somehow supposed to make it better. Garbage.
9. I really can't tell if it's the translation or the writing that made so many things in this novel contradictory. They would say or think one thing and then a paragraph later, it's the exact opposite without any development to get to that point.
Content Warnings
Minor: Child abuse and Sexual content
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