I'm quite torn, so I've settled in the middle on a 3 star rating. There are as many good things in Black Orb as bad. I started this when I was feeling quite slumpy, and it was so readable. The idea of two metre wide black orbs terrorising Seoul locals and sucking many of them into their shiny black abys, I just couldn't look away. It felt like the start of Chrysalids or Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham, so weird and unexplained. One of my first gripes comes from the main protagonist being a completely awful and homophobic man. I get that the orbs are, I guess, like a metaphor for his despair and horribleness. But I also didn't get it. There was a weird turn in the narrative that went overly sexual and uncomfortable, and I just didn't really care for it in the narrative. The ending was also not great. I feel unsatisfied, but I don't regret reading it. It's a weird one.