“you are on my ship now, and anyone on my ship does what i say,” snaps yoongi, and when he takes a step closer to jeongguk, jeongguk realizes that he’s actually taller than yoongi. strangely, he hadn’t noticed it before, because yoongi doesn’t seem like a small man. especially now, with that fiery look on his face, he seems larger than life—but jeongguk refuses to back down. it’s a bad idea to argue, he knows, but jeongguk has never been very good at stopping himself from doing something he’ll regret.
(or: when jeongguk finally gets his chance to sail the cosmos, it’s onboard the ship of an aggravating man named min yoongi. he thinks it’ll be extraordinarily dull—but the universe, and the legend of treasure planet, have other plans.)
I don’t even know what to say about this book. I had high hopes for it, but it fell flat for me, which is really disappointing because it was so long. There were several things I didn’t like about it. One being the going back and forth in time, it was quite confusing, making the book seem a bit disjointed. The writing style is very different and fragmented. Some of the descriptions were really weird, such as when he described the blind girls eyes as ‘like the egg cases of spiders’. What?! It seemed as if there were translations gone wrong in this story. There’s a sexual assault scene that was inserted into the story for whatever reason. There are a few likable characters, some intriguing scenes, and a lot of tragedy
I found it difficult to get into as the constant back and forth was confusing. I finally did get into it and and started to enjoy it, but I hated the ending. I read so many excellent reviews of this book so I guess it was just not for me. I like really BIG books and good long chapters.
This book is written beautifully it took a a bit to get in too but oh my gosh once you do it's like a train wreck you can't wait too see how the stories tie in.