Mai Makes Bad Decisions
What I don't like about this book is that Mai makes some absolutely atrocious decisions that she was severely warned not to make b/c of the dire consequences. And when she faces those consequences...she blames others and so does everyone else around her. Mai acts like an idiot in this book a lot of the time & she should be told so by her loved ones b/c THATS what loved ones actually do when you knowingly make egregious decisions like ***spoilers*** selling away your firstborn child to a creepy male trickster in exchange for a wish although you grew up a sexually & physically abused foster child yourself! When you do something atrocious like sell your 3 year old daughter away after causing your abused, traumatized best friend to be enslaved to the same male stranger so he could grant you another wish! Family & friends don't tell you what you did was understandable, they don't say that you lying and going behind their backs was right, they tell you that selling two OTHER people's lives away for YOUR wishes is evil & should've never been agreed to no matter what. They'd tell you that you were warned, next time you need to listen, that they won't apologize for using alpha command to stop you from harming yourself or others w/ your half-cocked actions, and you need to fix the messes you create. Period. You can't call Mai a strong alpha female if she can't take full responsibility for HER actions, good & bad. She did not have to deal w/ these people. She did. That's her fault, and I think she should have to pay a price for it. In fact, I wish the next book would show her losing SOMETHING substantial to keep her daughter. Like her immortality. Or maybe one of the alphas.
Two more things: strangers jumping out of bushes using nicknames w/ Mairin is getting fxcking absurd. Her name is not that long. Why can't they just use her freaking name?!?🙄 And now her daughter's got a dumbazz nickname too - "Dip" from Serendipity? What tf for? That's not even cute, it's literally one of the ugliest nicknames I've ever heard. Just give it a rest already author, the nickname gimmick is tired & inane. The author also seriously needs to proofreading & continuity. Sometimes there are are sentences where you can't tell who is replying to whom or what they are replying about. And some of the sentences are so poorly written, I can't believe she does this professionally: get a thesaurus & revisit basic grammar and sentence structure. What's more, some plot lines clearly don't make sense with what was said earlier on in the book and/or the book series. Like, if you're too l@zy to at least make sure that all the plot lines maintain continuity and make sense within your book series... then *stick to writing a short stories* or something. *Do not* write an *entire* book series. Do better...😒