Ethan Michaels’s Reviews > Pines > Status Update

Although the plotline continues to hold interest, predictability not only continues, it is expected.
Particularly the now introduced romance trope.
The 2nd 25% of the book is more skimmable than the 1st 25%.
Accordingly, most of what is being skimmed is bloat, which has become more dominant.
Strongly suspect the reason for this is because the author was aware, from his original sketches, this was to be serialized.