[Contemplation] Extraordinary! Shin Girl! by YooJay
*spoiler alert*
Truthfully, I read this fanfic before I started reading Moonlit Masquerade. It just so happen that I returned to tumblr in the duration of my appreciation to Moonlit Masquerade so it was the first one I reviewed. But have no fear! I actually saved time to review this TRANSLATED FIC (yes, it’s another TF, if you don’t mind) Haha! It’s EXTRAORDINARY! SHIN GIRL! by YooJay (Yeah, the exclamation mark goes that way ^^)
Here’s the synopsis of the story:
From the start, Shin Sung Eun never considered herself as an ordinary girl although she wished to be one. While everyone would be eating, drinking, sleeping and studying, Sung Eun would be skipping classes, beating crap out of people who crosses her and used to people kneeling before her. With her extraordinary self, she was called ’Shin Girl’ by everybody. And for the first time in her life, she was able to open her heart to other human beings - her 3 best friends. Their group called THE FOUR GIRLS - that’s what everybody calls them - and among them Shin Girl stood as their extraordinary leader!
Now the story we have here is a feminist! Haha! This is a fiction that almost 80% of the story were all about fighting. Well it’s because the Four Girls are actually extraordinary girls that likes fighting rather than going shopping. They have iljeens (korean term for gangsters - high school style) that respects and follows them and of course, RIVALS are inevitable from which they are THE FOUR GUYS & THE KILLERS. The three gangs are the most legendary because of a fight that was held at the Jamsil stadium that made The Four Girls lose face and was thrown out of Korea literally. When Shin Girl came back, little did she know that the FOUR GUYS and KILLERS made a pact to not make a war until the FOUR GIRLS are back because of one reason. So it’s also a story of Shin Girl finding love despite many gang rivals and the story also shows strong bonded friendship of the FOUR GIRLS.
Extraordinary Shin Girl it’s a story that seeks for a simple friendship despite being extraordinary but I wouldn’t recommend this to people who don’t like fighting scenes, gangs, blood too much and especially grammar nazis because since it’s a translated, expect bad grammar. But you'll get it through with a messed up head anyway.
My Rating:
Plot: 5.5/10
Characters & Dialogue : 6.7/10
Structure & Pacing: 5.0/10
Theme: 6.5/10
Style & Tone: 4.7/10
OVERALL RATING: 5.7
NOTE: This review came from my old tumblr account and was posted in June 2013.