Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint (novel), Vol. 1

This is my favourite story and I'm so happy an official English translation is finally out and I get to re-read it!

This is a story that sicks with you, and pulls you in deep. If or new or old to reading you'll enjoy it and if your unsure then read the first few chapters of the manwha for free in webtoon ti help you decide

having previously read the original korean novel + the ongoing manhwa i can say with absolute certainty that this translation is beautifully written. it translates most things from the original incredibly well and i am so excited to see the future releases. as for the cover design its gorgeous, the cover isn’t like any other i’ve seen before. the texture is nice and not too rough on the hands and the small opening in the front to see some official art on the inside is a nice detail. highly recommend!

Absolutely LOVEEEE orv!! I’m so glad I can finally read the OFFICIAL English translation (as opposed to the online fan translations which were pretty good too)! The cover is amazing, a lot of detail, though mine did come a little ripped :( I definitely reccomend getting this novel, it’s pure peak (if you have or haven’t read it) it’s def worth it!!! I can’t wait for the next vol to release, i definitely will be buying it!!!

i love orv so much but amazon needs to do better with the quality of their products ive had two copies come so far and both times it was damaged or stained but the actual novel is amazing and id suggest purchasing it if you're a fan of the manhwa/webtoon

Amazing novel, the story is unforgettable and very unique. Translation could be better and it’d be nice if they followed the popular fan translation variant but it’s okay as is aswell. The book is in good condition, the missing star is cause of the questionable translation

I really enjoyed reading this. I rarely read translations of Korean novels and so I loved that I was given a chance to read this one. Having come from being a manhwa/webtoon reader of Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint to the novel, I really enjoyed rereading the familiar storyline of how the main character overcame the first few scenarios. The novel adds a lot of details and interiority that improved my experience of the scenes I already knew. The pacing was great and the flow of the story felt really natural. One of the most interesting differences with the novel mode (as opposed to the visual format of the manhwa) is that I felt a weird dissonance between the omniscient paragraphs and the first person point of view. The former felt distanced, whilst the latter were close to Dokja. But the more I thought about this, the more I began to feel it was a stylistic element of the story. Dokja as our OMNISCIENT READER is supposed to feel quite distanced from the narrative. He’s supposed to seem detached. It’s something that I think really works with the storyline and what I know from the manhwa. My favourite interactions in this volume were the ones between Dokja and Gilyeong. Despite what Dokja says, I think he has a real soft spot for Gilyeong and I love how Gilyeong looks up to Dokja and trusts him. It’s really heartwarming. I am a little frustrated that there isn’t more of the story, but that’s because I want to READ MORE. I’ll have to tide myself over by rereading the manhwa.

FIVE STARS FOR THE ACTUAL STORY. THE TRANSLATION AND PUBLISHER IS THE ONE I'M DISAPPOINTED IN!!!! It felt as if they're so hung up on proper english that the feeling of the story is gone because I can't focus due to how bad it is?? Let's start with how Kim Dokja's and everyone elses name is the other way around because they decided they're not using the korean version of surname-first name and is now "Dokja Kim" sometimes even just "Dokja". Issue is Dokja as a stand alone name was used whenever he wanted to emphasise on being the reader, but the full Kim Dokja name was used to speak and tell his story as Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint character. Then "three ways of survival" name was completely changed. We went from that to a very weird abbreviation called "TWSA" or "Three ways to survive the Apocalypse" as if they couldn't be asked to write it even though you could replace the abbreviation with the full name on any digital document using the replace function? Also, BLACKBOX'S official art is only at the very beginning, and only 2 of them, the dark pages you see in the middle of the book are just title pages, this is not a graphic novel with the official illustrations. Please give SingShong love, and please please please read ORV, but as a die hard fan of the story, as much as I wanted the books to complete my ORV shelf, I would not be spending money on this flimsy work.