I’ll be dropping the book at this point. Couldn’t stand how author deal with Heurt’s rape arc, and painting it how Randall’ dad was so regretful about what happened but didn’t even turn himself in. How the author pushes in under the rug after Maxpein learn about it, we never got to see the reaction of major character like Maximore, Maze, Heurt about what happened because it was told from the view of Deib which was unnecessary to the conflict. We never get to see how Maximore and Maze reacts to knowing the woman you once cherish was raped by one of your closest friend, how it affects Heurt having to hear her trauma relive again. At this point, i believe the author just added the rape part just to make Max’s character even more tragic which didn’t help because is Max’s still close with Randall’s family? Particularly him? Like I’m sorry but if I learn that my bf’s father just raped my own mother and his mother is trying to justify it as a mistake, I’ll be burning their house to the ground along with them inside. The author just added the rape part but wasn’t brought up again as if it was just a small part to Max’s story as a person, as if rape is just a spice or an ingredient to make a story tragic which is fucking disgusting. It would’ve been better if it was depicted great, how it will haunt the narrative since our major character is a woman (Maxpein) and how she was SA when she was child but that part was never brought up? It was only talk about during MOON and thats it? Author once again using SA and rape as a spice in a story and never care to explore about it. Fucking disgusting. There’s some pairing in this book like Naih and Lee (so unnecessary lmao), that seems questionable and a lot of harmful stereotypes. Like at this point, this is just a trauma porn for Maxpein. Never once did i read where her life was great without trauma coming for her tenfold and that trauma was barely talk about after it happened. Was it really necessary for Deib to be the one reacting to Heurt’s rape story instead of HER OWN DAUGHTER?