I really love how they’ve made Alicia’s character she’s obviously not a good person but I feel like they’ve took care to make her not be completely defined by her being a bad person? If that makes sense like you can understand what’s made her the way she is and she feels really realistic in other stories I feel like they’d go to length of either making her completely unsympathetic and cruel for no reason or make her have a shoehorned backstory moment where you’re forced to pity her (i haven’t read the novel so i don’t know if they do this later but i hope not) but instead you can just read it all in her character she’s someone who clings onto her looks because it’s the only thing that let her somewhat live above her poverty and she’s desperate still to use that so she doesn’t end up like her sisters. I liked (story wise) how they show her using their sisters deaths against Paula to make her feel bad in the scene before Ethan and Lucas fight you can see how it affected her but still see how her upbringing left her warped in the way she interpreted their deaths, a genuine accusation because she truly blames Paula as you can see her echo the sentiment later, but also so cruel and terrible to their memory to use their sisters in a mocking way. I also especially like how they’ve depicted their relationship, it’s a lot more than strained between them but the way they still stick to eachother and even the way in the recent chapter where Alicia hits her with the pillow there’s genuine hatred from Alicia towards Paula and Paula I wouldn’t say hates her too given she still does all she can to protect her but definitely resents her, but still all that culminates into just Alicia beating her with a pillow and Paula just taking it and I really feel like that’s just such a good depiction of what being a sister is like. They have such a complicated relationship and it’s unsalvageable because Alicia will never act in Paula’s interest she’s too selfish for that, but despite that they still are stuck to eachother simply because they’re sisters and all the hatred and resentment in the world can’t change that for them ESPECIALLY for them because they’re each others last sisters. Anyways, there’s so much more I could say about them but I’ll leave it at that I just wanted to talk about this because the romance in this is wonderful but I think a highlight for me is Paula’s story with her sisters, we know so little about the ones that died but they still haunt the narrative and define her surviving relationships, it’s wonderfully well written and I’m excited to see more of that.
I really love how they’ve made Alicia’s character she’s obviously not a good person but I feel like they’ve took care to make her not be completely defined by her being a bad person? If that makes sense like you can understand what’s made her the way she is and she feels really realistic in other stories I feel like they’d go to length of either making her completely unsympathetic and cruel for no reason or make her have a shoehorned backstory moment where you’re forced to pity her (i haven’t read the novel so i don’t know if they do this later but i hope not) but instead you can just read it all in her character she’s someone who clings onto her looks because it’s the only thing that let her somewhat live above her poverty and she’s desperate still to use that so she doesn’t end up like her sisters. I liked (story wise) how they show her using their sisters deaths against Paula to make her feel bad in the scene before Ethan and Lucas fight you can see how it affected her but still see how her upbringing left her warped in the way she interpreted their deaths, a genuine accusation because she truly blames Paula as you can see her echo the sentiment later, but also so cruel and terrible to their memory to use their sisters in a mocking way. I also especially like how they’ve depicted their relationship, it’s a lot more than strained between them but the way they still stick to eachother and even the way in the recent chapter where Alicia hits her with the pillow there’s genuine hatred from Alicia towards Paula and Paula I wouldn’t say hates her too given she still does all she can to protect her but definitely resents her, but still all that culminates into just Alicia beating her with a pillow and Paula just taking it and I really feel like that’s just such a good depiction of what being a sister is like. They have such a complicated relationship and it’s unsalvageable because Alicia will never act in Paula’s interest she’s too selfish for that, but despite that they still are stuck to eachother simply because they’re sisters and all the hatred and resentment in the world can’t change that for them ESPECIALLY for them because they’re each others last sisters. Anyways, there’s so much more I could say about them but I’ll leave it at that I just wanted to talk about this because the romance in this is wonderful but I think a highlight for me is Paula’s story with her sisters, we know so little about the ones that died but they still haunt the narrative and define her surviving relationships, it’s wonderfully well written and I’m excited to see more of that.