yeah, i get that. except author spent so much more time trying to make people think joian would happen there were certain plot points not expanded upon or flat out not even acknowledged. example, tj & ian's 20 years of shared history together before the story starts is barely even touched upon, aswell as tj slowly being more and more ignored as we went on focusing on ian instead. i get that in 'love triangles' there has to be an element of 'will they won't they've but this is NOT how you do it . i also considered the ending as 'full of bullshit' because, again, plot holes. like for example, what happened to jo afterwards? what happened to ian while tj was imprisoned? why was tj's sentence so short? among many others!!
You're so right! I hate when they forget or neglect plot holes and points and needed explanations. But as someone who makes stories, some points aren't supposed to be expanded on; just supposed to help the plot along--but that's just a personal gist where i don't want my readers reading into dome parts too much because they were never meant for that

wet sand is a really fucking good story IN HINDSIGHT but then you think about how it ended, think about it some more, and then you just get pissed tf off and thats what happened to me. WOOOOOOF its just so.. clunky. which is a shame cuz this could've easily gone down as one of the genre's greatest had the last 15-20 chapters wasn't full of shitfuckery and baiting readers to think joian even stood a damn chance. overall, it's a pretty nice read.. but man, that ending is just full of bullshit isn't it