Let Dai, Volume 08

Let Dai #8

by Sooyeon Won

Is this desire for freedom the very thing that entrapped us? Let Dai is a tragic tale of forbidden love and unforgivable betrayal. Set in a soulless neo-Seoul ruled by young punks and pleasure seekers, an amoral teenager named Dai is the living embodiment of the city's beauty and cruelty. As the leader of the vicious Furies gang, Dai seduces everyone who lays eyes on him, only to blind them to his own barbaric nature. When an honest schoolboy named Jaehee rescues a beautiful girl from being mugged by the Furies, he can?t possibly realize how this brief encounter will plunge him into a downward spiral of unbridled passion and unfathomable pain. From his brutal gang initiation to an unspeakable act committed against his girlfriend, Jaehee wavers uncomfortably between revulsion and fascination. And in Dai he finds a tender, caring friend one moment and a heartless sociopath the next, awakening strange and unhealthy desires in Jaehee that he could never before have imagined.

Genres: Manga, Manhwa, Yaoi, LGBT, Comics, Tragedy, Graphic Novels

192 pages, Paperback

First published August 20, 2007

About the author

Sooyeon Won is commonly acknowledged as the greatest shoujo (romance) artist in Korea.

Since her debut in 1987, she has been creating comic books of extensive scope ranging from effervescent romance titles to dramas that speculate on human nature in its profundity.

Her zodiac sign is Aquarius and her blood type is A.

Reviews

[Michalyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

This series leaves me absolutely breathless, the tension is so palpable. All the characters are in so much pain, each in their own ways. I keep praying that everything will turn out all right in the end but something tells me that's just wishful thinking.

[Daniel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Re-read continues. Vol 8 things are starting to get weird with Jaehee's mom. Visit to Dai's grandmother. Jaehee, Dai, Naru, & Eunhyung go to the beach together. [ >.> awkward ] Brush with suicide.

Some very good bits in this one, but the drama's in a lower key than many other volumes.