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i'm really, really, *really* tired of the "i'm just such a clumsy girl" trope

Wow … so this is basically all straight up rape??

Jfc this is a slog.

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so tempted to look up spoilers for this bc i'm pretty sure it's going to end up a reverse harem/poly but in a poorly handled way given The Hints the author is dropping and also am v. tired of heroine being sexually assaulted every 3 pages and suspect that isn't going to stop either.

okay okay so more or less enjoying this so far but OMG having the MC describe the early 17th century as 'medieval' when she's in the antiques business i.e. should fucking know better is DRIVING ME INSANE.

I'm trying so so hard not to get caught up on details that 'don't matter' but I'm supposed to believe a 16yo girl whose mom made $ sewing doesn't know how to sew? in like the 13thc?! she generally doesn't seem to know how to do *anything* - she was an only child of a peasant couple GF would have known how to do all sorts of shit. She would probably been proficient at sewing by like age 7. 😤

There's a lot of "having children is something every woman craves and is literally the most fulfilling experience a woman can have!" going on so far and since this is not a relatable experience I'm... struggling a bit.

I was really digging the intense "enemies-who-detest-one-another-but-reader-can-totally-tell-they're-into-each-other" slow-burn energy but then MMC did 1 nice thing/lifesaving and they were boning within a couple hours so... have kind of lost interest now. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Finally got to some dramatic tension but it’s because a character is bleeding internally from massive physical trauma and literally minutes from death and two other characters are taking a moment for a touching goodbye instead of DRIVING HIM TO THE HOSPITAL ASAP FFS

I'm not a big fan of horror but thought 'tis the season, let's give it another try!' and I'm just largely irritated. Characters just have to behave so stupidly to make most horror plots work that I spend most of the plots frustrated. There are good bones in this (lol) but I'm listening to the audiobook & the way the narrator reads the MC makes her so whiny and petulant that I won't be sad if she dies horribly.

Honestly one of the most frustrating things about Victorian novels is how dumb people have to be to make the plots work (though I suppose the same could be said about much of the modern horror genre?).