I mean overall I like it, but honestly the whole excuse of “I can’t be with him now, even though he still wants me, because I feel too guilty about leaving him in the past” just sounds absurd to me, especially when she’s supposed to be smart. Too much plot was wasted on constantly going over and revisiting this in my opinion. But this is probably due to the fact that the author probably felt it was necessary to keep reminding the reader of her feelings of guilt as even readers could easily recognise that she was a smart girl and should have been able to see how she too was a victim of her circumstances and wasn’t given much choice herself and her current behaviour of denial was hurtful to those she wanted to help.
I mean overall I like it, but honestly the whole excuse of “I can’t be with him now, even though he still wants me, because I feel too guilty about leaving him in the past” just sounds absurd to me, especially when she’s supposed to be smart. Too much plot was wasted on constantly going over and revisiting this in my opinion. But this is probably due to the fact that the author probably felt it was necessary to keep reminding the reader of her feelings of guilt as even readers could easily recognise that she was a smart girl and should have been able to see how she too was a victim of her circumstances and wasn’t given much choice herself and her current behaviour of denial was hurtful to those she wanted to help.