I was kept engaged and entertained by the story, because I wanted to know how things were resolved. I ignored a lot of bad signs and handwaved them. It ultimately made me feel unsatisfied and like I wasted my time. The disappointment I feel at chapter 141 makes me not want to finish it.
Context:
Agreed with many commenters here: ML/FL relationship is contrived, FL never has to work for anything, FL doesn't go through any character development, plot is overall dry, and lot of the stuff is filler. Also, a lot of story is weirdly rushed and cut off in strange places. A scene will be happening, it'll leave you on a cliffhanger, then it will cut to somewhere else on the next chapter and leave you confused, later giving you a little resolution, but nothing very satisfying.
As for the ML/FL romance, it didn't feel developed at all, and we barely get to know ML. He went from being mysterious and cunning, to being affectionate and loving suddenly?? It just made no sense character consistency wise.
I stayed for the side characters, specifically Adam, Justin and Heika. But because there are so many side characters, NOBODY gets the chance to be fleshed out.
Climax:
The climax of this series (ch 141) is bad. like real bad. I skipped forward to see if it was ever addressed, but it wasn't.. It's like, the buildup is interesting, but then it all falls flat.
Basically Rae is always determined to change her fate of being killed. So that's the biggest motivator for the plot to move forward, and why she looks so cool doing stuff. That part was really interesting, but she has
zero sympathy for another character with a similar situation.
Then, it is made even worse (BIG SPOILER -->😉
that she wasn't even meant to have a death sentence after all. But she ends up lecturing that other character about changing their fate, then straight up KILLING THEM. Without a second thought or hesitation. Or maybe, I don't know, giving them a CHANCE to change their fate??? And Rae technically never had to change her own fate anyway, because she was already safe from the beginning. So it just makes everything she ever did not impressive. Nothing she did was ever worth anything.
** (<-- BIG SPOILER)**
So in the end she just looks like a
big ass hypocrite and heartless villain, even though the entire time everyone was happy for how nice she was to them. It just doesn't make any sense in the narrative and she ultimately looks like a HUGE tool.
I like that she's "strong and powerful" of course, but knowing what I listed above changes the entire perspective in a really bad way.
Super disappointing. I liked the ride, I want to just pretend like that ending didn't happen. Honestly though I think all of it together frankly just ruined it for me. I was looking past big issues with the story, and it just compiles together in one big shitty mess at the end.
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