left it to marinate, only to get a dumb bitch of a protagonist.
There's huge difference between apathy and not understanding/relating to other people's feelings
and lacking common sense and having the iq of undeveloped toddler. Grayson isn't written as an emotionless psychopath but as a literal kid with the dumbest brain bec ffs how's not speaking when someone's literally shushing you and trying to be secretive or how isn't it the most basic common sense not to leave a kid locked up even when you don't pity them or even give a single fuck what that child may be feeling then...etc
I'm usually against child abuse, but Ash should've beaten that dumb bitch even harder
also the way all women written here absolutely gives me the ick what kind of MenWritingWomen challenge r we cooking here
anyway god save Dane bec I honestly kms if I had to be paired with a dumb bitch
You can always drop now if it's not your taste. The author has the tendency to write problematic or in your definition stupid mc/ml in most of her works, the only differences is this one was long enough to have proper character development. If you want green flag or relatable characters right from the beginning this series is not for you.
If u want u can try to read the novel, actually comprehend the characters, and give this a chance. There's a reason why he did that w the child. Grayson isn't some baseless dumbed down kid. The moment he understood his emotions towards dane he literally groveled because he thinks something as deep as love cannot be terrifying like that. This man is one of the best/decent ml's in the verse—this is NOT the worst story in the series. that I can guarantee. someone's worser and brutal than Grayson. and fyi God ain't saving Dane, that man you're siding with fully admitted he raped grayson. if you can't handle something mild like this do NOT read anything from ZIG LOL /nm
Crying bcs i know for a fact you don't read shit about this author at all anyways if you want to read it I suggest you read the novel bcs even Dane is not the green flag you think he is lol and why are you justifying Ashley's abusive and psycho personality like he even did that to chase, that's why his kids are all messed up in the first place, if you want some wholesome shit go read something out there, there's literally so many stories about the shit you like
I'd appreciate any recommendations but the mental issues shall be the very plot or at least a huge part of it
and the specific "bl/gl" part is bec I'm gay myself and disconnect from storied easily if it isn't involving gay people ヾ(❀╹◡╹)ノ~
i'm glad! it's one of the ongoing ones closest to my heart ₍ᐢ. .ᐢ₎ ₊˚⊹♡
if you haven't already read it, i also rec a completed fav of mine is 'form of sympathy' (depression, ptsd), it's not fluffiest of endings but more of a peaceful one. like acceptance.
also love 'pizza delivery man and the golden palace' (depression, anxiety).
i'm also currently reading 'death delayed for a short time because of the will" (explores depression, ptsd, survivor's guilt) if you're into hunterverse (me, not so much, it's only my 2nd hunterverse but so far it's good)
I've put this one away for a while after their flashback but now finishing it in one go I've so many thoughts.
The author def knows how to build a complicated story and layered characters, all characters were pretty likable in their own complicated ways even the antagonists themselves.
however, taking this into consideration it felt so anticlimactic for not a single one to be actually held accountable but worse with every single antagonist being excused and justified that they had a reason for being objectively shitty ppl. chairman is just pitiful like Geon, poor prosecutor was just in love, reider has trauma himself so ofc it's understandable that he made Geom's life a literal misery... etc
makes you think what was even the whole point of Lee's entire revenge plan when barely any one of them got a real punishment??? just to escape his life while -more or less- forgiving them for everything they did?
there's no absolute logic in that. author should've rly learned a thing or two from the pawn's revenge and even Je-oh didn't have as much of a hellish life as Geon.
Also, the sex/rape scenes left a very unstomachable lump in my throat, they were executed too much in fetishy way rather than having anything to do with it being SA. The way every panel was drawn and executed made me so uncomfortable and I don't usually even care after reading over +2k story, alot of which were old yaoi or straight-up pwp.
I wish this story hadn't had a single sex scenes and we just goy Geon's thoughts and agony in words,