AUTHOR: meeno24315 STORY TITLE: Letters to Nobody.

Title (10/10): It’s a perfectly suitable title for this story. It’s exactly what the title says, it’s letters to Nobody.

Characterization (08/10): The characterization is vague. But that’s obviously the whole idea of the plot. Taehyung (the main character) suffers memory loss and is re-discovering himself, so I’d say the characterization is good for the purpose of the story.

Themes (08/10): I like it how it’s the search of an identity already from the beginning. It’s different from the usual 3-5 introducing chapters before an accident and then suddenly memory loss. It’s different and I like how this is portrayed as self-reflection through letters and not a story as such with a plot that we follow from a perspective, but more like a diary. It’s something that is rarely found as worked through at this work.

Setting (10/10): The description of the settings around Taehyung are very vivid and if you’re just the slightest bit visual while reading, you’ll see what Taehyung sees. You’ll imagine the rooms and environments he is in.

Description and Foreword (09/10): The description and foreword are by no means misleading. But I lack an idea of what I can expect from the story.

Writing Style / Techniques (10/10): The writing at first is confusing. It’s confusing because grammar appears to be wrong and capital letters appear seemingly at random. But while reading you discover that Taehyung uses capital letters to refer to a certain thing. I like how it confuses the reader at first. It made me sort of sympathize with Taehyung through his memory loss.

Presentation (10/10): The story has a nice graphic poster attached to it and the story generally has a nice layout that is easy to keep up with. The headlines are neatly thought through to support the story too so it’s easy to keep up on.

Structure and Flow (05/10): I have to take quite a few points off the flow part because the story is very very long with not much happening. There is a lot of reading with no development on Taehyung’s account and it made my interest in the story die down quite often before it was sparked by a chapter where something happened again. I have caught myself wondering whether I could just skip five chapters and if I’d miss anything from it. You get more points for the structure of your story. It goes with the presentation mentioned above. The structure of the story is clear but I have to give a nick down when you include Sunny’s perspectives toward the end. Sunny’s perspectives doesn’t really add to the story as it’s supposed to be “Letters to Nobody”. Sunny’s chapters are actual chapters, writing like a regular story of third point of view writing of her experiences, and that kind of ruins it. Sunny’s memory of the night where Taehyung went ballistic, could have been written as another Remember as Taehyung calls them, or as an epilogue. “It has been a while, but Sunny told me this…” etc so that you keep Taehyung’s point of view through the whole thing.

Plot (06/10): The plot is different and an interesting read. But it’s not something that hasn’t been seen before. The presentation of it being letters is different and makes it different than the others, but it’s not that captivating.

Overall Enjoyment (04/10): All in all I liked this story a lot, I just wish it was 30 chapters shorter. It isn’t a story I would have stuck around with to the end if I had to read it for my own entertainments sake. If anything I might have skipped a lot of chapters and skipped to the last 10 chapters. The first 15 and then the last 10.

Overall Score: 80/100
Overall Percentage: 80%
Reviewer's Note: I don’t know if you’re aware, but Yongguk’s name shows up occasionally. Aside from that, I have to mention this: I’m lacking some sort of explanation to what caused Taehyung’s multiple personality disorder. The small teaser we got on Taehyung’s childhood back from high school, nothing seemed to indicate what could have caused it. I’m by no means a psychologist or psychiatrist, but I know that this kind of disorder doesn’t come out of nothing. Some kind of trauma, mental or physical, or neglect needs to have taken place for something like this to take place, and Taehyung seems to have had a happy life until he began forgetting.
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