Mashing up ideas from "Crime & Punishment", "Groundhog Day", "The Matrix" and "American Psycho", "World Will End" is a humourous fantasy packed with page-turning twists and turns. In depicting a struggling WebNovel writer as the main character, it is amusingly self-referential, with some rich depictions of Korean lifestyle adding to its authenticity. But this is not your typical hero: Yui's nihilism and misanthropy will resonate with some, but will be off-putting and disturbing for others as she descends into increasingly depraved acts of brutality. Will she find redemption and save the world? Strangely, the more I read, the more I care how this does end...
