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As always the novel is much better for the groveling the depth of trauma but you're right on something,the time skip just after their memories returned was too much ...
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As always the novel is much better for the groveling the depth of trauma but you're right on something,the time skip just after their memories returned was too much ...
I honestly feel like the creator really cheapened the story with the developments between Sienna and Asiel, her feelings were so random, there was no proper buildup other than the classic “feelings go thump”. Now this forced proximity angle is just so artificial and trite.
There were so many ways that the author could have arrived at them developing feelings and a relationship without compromising the quality of the story.
It should have been a genuine slow burn with both of them struggling to manage their feelings while healing from their trauma.
Sienna basically caught feelings out of nowhere, with some hesitation and literally no other exploration of the effect that had on her psyche or any complex reaction.
Asiel’s emotional arc was basically feeling guilty, guilty about having feelings, and then the forced proximity trope. We didn’t even get to see his initial reaction or the family’s groveling because the time skip happened immediately after they all remembered.
It feels like I was being served a ten course gourmet meal, and halfway through someone started bringing out fast food. If I wanted cheap and generic I would be elsewhere, I came for this story because of how beautiful and in depth it was, now it’s just one of a thousand other shallow romances with the same stale tropes