First half was good, second half was just downright frustrating. Sol is wayyyy too forgiving for his own good, it’s bordering on pushover. He also was so damn passive for the entire story, just riding the waves and never really doing anything for the sake of the og plot. Not to mention doel, author should have just cut him out of the story completely with how much he was neglected. Couldn’t even stick to the script of him and karhan being the og couple because it literally only came up as a plot CONVENIENCE to introduce some conflict, instead of it being an actual plot POINT. And it wasn’t even focused on that much? Story would have been the same regardless of whether it included that or not because at some point Sol’s main survival issue wasn’t the og couple anymore but the arma blood like???
Asdion (?) got off way too easy, and the conflict between asdion and that blond arma was never explored?? Because of that everything felt very one - note kind of “I’m going to kill him because I’m obsessed with you and no one else can have you”, which just left me feeling like he’s an asshole with nothing forgivable about him, which made me think even less of sol actually forgiving him in the story for nothing. I’m not gonna say that the blond arma is any better either, because he literally treated sol like an object, but I can see that he’s way of thinking is due to having lived so long. The only characters I didn’t find myself pulling my hair out over was doel and karhan, the og couple, so maybe that was the real plan from the author after all. Haha.
First half was good, second half was just downright frustrating. Sol is wayyyy too forgiving for his own good, it’s bordering on pushover. He also was so damn passive for the entire story, just riding the waves and never really doing anything for the sake of the og plot. Not to mention doel, author should have just cut him out of the story completely with how much he was neglected. Couldn’t even stick to the script of him and karhan being the og couple because it literally only came up as a plot CONVENIENCE to introduce some conflict, instead of it being an actual plot POINT. And it wasn’t even focused on that much? Story would have been the same regardless of whether it included that or not because at some point Sol’s main survival issue wasn’t the og couple anymore but the arma blood like???
Asdion (?) got off way too easy, and the conflict between asdion and that blond arma was never explored?? Because of that everything felt very one - note kind of “I’m going to kill him because I’m obsessed with you and no one else can have you”, which just left me feeling like he’s an asshole with nothing forgivable about him, which made me think even less of sol actually forgiving him in the story for nothing. I’m not gonna say that the blond arma is any better either, because he literally treated sol like an object, but I can see that he’s way of thinking is due to having lived so long. The only characters I didn’t find myself pulling my hair out over was doel and karhan, the og couple, so maybe that was the real plan from the author after all. Haha.