Bloody Sweet, Vol. 4

Bloody Sweet #4

by NaRae Lee, HKPP (translator)

Fetechou might have rejected his old friend, but Roxana won’t take no for an answer—and she’s willing to go to extreme measures! Having established herself as a celebrity among humans, Roxana reveals Fetechou’s true vampiric nature to the entire world. Will he and Naerim be able to defeat Roxana, or will the vampiress’s nefarious schemes drive a wedge between them for good?

Genres: Manga, Manhwa, Romance, Fantasy, Vampires, Urban Fantasy, Supernatural

272 pages, Paperback

Published October 22, 2024

About the author

Discovered by Yen Press Senior Editor JuYoun Lee, NaRae was able to make her U.S. debut working on a series that already had legions of devoted fans. It's a lot to live up to, but NaRae proved to be up to the challenge by delivering artwork that looks remarkably polished for a relative newbie to the world of international manga publishing.

Reviews

[Milo (if lost, return to hot fictional character) · Rating 5 out of 5]

ugh the ending was perfect. i love the whole talk about morality and ethics in this. highly recommend!

[Allison · Rating 5 out of 5]

so sweet but also heartwrenching... that bittersweet emotion feels so good and bad at the same time. live life to the fullest, free and happy

[Chelsea · Rating 5 out of 5]

How can an ending be both so heartwarming and heart wrenching? I am satisfied with the outcome. An amazing series that is worth reading over again.

[Mersi · Rating 5 out of 5]

WHAT!!??????? I AM BOTH DEVASTATED AND ELATED! I feel incomplete *so much sobbing*

[Danielle · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was going to give this closer to 4 stars but those last couple pages got me and made my rating higher.

[Chaela · Rating 4 out of 5]

what was that final chapter??? 😭

[Haley · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great ending to an intriguing series. It was a great idea to point out the strong similarities between Roxanna's and Naerim's lives; it really showed how despite the circumstances, the people in your life and how you choose to view your situation can affect your outlook on life in general.

I also felt that everyone got an ending that fit their character. While I felt the drama between Naerim and Fetechou throughout the first half to two thirds of this volume dragged out a little more than past volumes, their ending suited their characters. Naerim and Fetechou sharing a life together where Fetechou remains young due to his lingering vampire blood, and Naerim becoming older through the passage of time felt (for me at least) right. It was an ending that fit the couple. It wasn't cheap, didn't pull punches, and left both a beautifully sad and happy ending to their story.

The same can be said about Roxanna. Her ending befitted her character. While it was far from happy, I feel anything else would've been an injustice to her character and just made the story cheesy by trying to make everyone happy.

I was shocked by the developments of Laszlo's and Sammi's characters. Still, what developed fit them both. Their interactions between one another are also funny to watch and read. However, that bonus story with the two of them only added to what irked me as I was reading. Volume 3 gave a small hint of Laszlo's past life before he became a vampire. I was really excited by that. While I found Laszlo cruel at times in the previous volumes, there was still something about his character that intrigued me that wasn't there in Roxanna. I was hoping to get Laszlo's full backstory and who that person in the painting was to him. Obviously context clues would dictate that this mysterious boy is mostly likely his human son that probably died at a young age, but what about that time in his life before the painting? How did Laszlo become a vampire? Who turned him? What happened to his son? Why did Laszlo become a vampire? The story may have centered around Naerim and Fetechou, and later Roxanna, but these were questions I was hoping to get answered. I supposed I'll just have to live with the assumptions I came up with after reading Sammi's and Laszlo's bonus story.

While I think my favorite for this series will always be volumes 1 and 2, the series itself has been a pleasure to read, and this final volume provided a strong and fitting ending.

[M Myosotis · Rating 2 out of 5]

I am so torn on this series because, in a lot of ways, I feel like 1-2 is the true story while 3-4 is a sequel. Since Bloody Sweet is advertised as an entire singular series, I'm going to review it as such.

A big issue with this story is, however, it's good as two separate parts and not a whole. Part 1 and 2 are disjointed the most when observed side-by-side; elements that exist in part one that SHOULD be addressed in part two (what happened to Naerim being connected to a spirit? And that spirit being able to enact her harsher feelings?). Volume 2 even ended in a way that closed all the loose plot points of that part of the story. Then you have the cliffhanger in volume two that segues into volumes three and four, introducing a lot of stuff that just... feels disconnected.

Roxanna feels shoehorned in as a darker parallel to both Fetechou and Naerim. Lazslo feels half-baked and takes up time being hot and exasperated. Sammi is still boring, the bandmates and Hyeolyeol are forgotten halfway through (and the fact he has a crush on Naerim is never explicitly resolved). Even the individual plotlines between Naerim and Fetechou (with Fetechou mirroring Naerim's position in part 1, wanting to die, while Naerim has to learn that her happiness isn't going to disappear if Fetechou does) feels directly contradictory to the morals and themes of the first half.

All in all, as a series with 2 parts, 2 volumes each? Wonderful. As a full series? It just doesn't work. The extra star just comes from how great part 1 was, and the gut punch that was the final few pages of the fourth volume. Like did you really need to have me go from ambivalence to wanting to bawl when I thought those pages would be needless filler???

[Yoconmislibros · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 estrellas

La anterior para mi es la valoración global de la historia, que está dividida en dos partes diferenciadas. Los dos primeros tomos se centran más en la protagonista femenina y en los dos últimos tenemos las historia del protagonista masculino y el desenlace.

Personalmente prefiero los dos primeros aunque todos se disfrutan, además se leen con facilidad tanto porque son relativamente sencillos como por el ritmo de la historia. El final algo agridulce aunque bastante "realista" dentro de lo que es la historia. Me habría gustado que se viese un poco más de ella entre la parte del final y el epílogo.

[Amelie Halkias · Rating 5 out of 5]

holy moly....I think I just died...did all that really just happen? my feelings!
that ending was so sweet and yet so sad and now, just, what?! what a Rollercoaster that was. the ending is so fun, I love that we watch them grow up after a few more years, seriously so special!

[Letty Siia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Une pépite ❤️🥺

[Natasha · Rating 4 out of 5]

…is the series finished? I can’t tell.

[Alexandra Bunn · Rating 4 out of 5]

that fucking gut punch at the end??? could’ve done without that 😭

[Emma]

I love this series

*SPOLIER*



I'm g;ad that they don't show Roxanne growing. When anger is the only thing keeping you alive it will take a miracle for you to stop being angry.

[Sydney · Rating 5 out of 5]

🩸 5 stars 🩸

AH, this series was so good! I can't believe it's over. The ending was perfect, and I cried because it was over.

[dobpizzazz · Rating 5 out of 5]

oh my geosh why did that end so bloody sad in the bonus chapters good grief i wasn’t expecting the stabbing i got




completely uncalled for

🤧

[Frank Chillura (OhYouRead) · Rating 5 out of 5]

OMG! WTF!!! That ending was heartwrenching. It was an afterwards years in the future and there is a definitive ending to the story……. So that sucks, but I respect how it finishes. It’s just so sad.😭

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

The ending to this series absolutely devastated me. What a brilliant story with all the feels.

[Ruben-Werner Prahl · Rating 5 out of 5]

that final ending page hurts, great story and fantastic art

[Courtney K · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5

[Elizabeth · Rating 2 out of 5]

1/20/25 Don't love the ending 2.5

[Holly · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am sobbing. I am not okay. I love them, Your Honour.