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Noelia (thisbookishlove)
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First half completed. Second half to go. Some thoughts.
For a book supposedly about...what was it? Oh, yeah, "the devastating consequences of war", it surely focuses a bit too much on the relationship between two characters.
Already passed the scene that has everyone "screaming, crying, throwing up", and felt nothing.
If a guy came to me and said "your like a rose in a graveyard", I'd punch him in the face. LOL.
— Oct 02, 2025 03:58AM
For a book supposedly about...what was it? Oh, yeah, "the devastating consequences of war", it surely focuses a bit too much on the relationship between two characters.
Already passed the scene that has everyone "screaming, crying, throwing up", and felt nothing.
If a guy came to me and said "your like a rose in a graveyard", I'd punch him in the face. LOL.
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Noelia (thisbookishlove)
is 97% done
WTF? Really? Really? The big bad guy's death and happens offstage? Seriously?????????? We find out by simple telling?????
Well, now I confirm that people rating this 5 stars are high as f###.
LOL.
— Oct 10, 2025 04:28PM
Well, now I confirm that people rating this 5 stars are high as f###.
LOL.
Noelia (thisbookishlove)
is 97% done
I'd like to know whose clever idea was to include the scene of Helena giving birth..and this is related to the war and the supposed overall plot because......?????
This is like the most anticlimactic and uninspired ending I have ever read.
Sorry to those of you who like this book, but this is trash.
Let's keep fanfiction into the fanfiction department, ok?
— Oct 10, 2025 03:52PM
This is like the most anticlimactic and uninspired ending I have ever read.
Sorry to those of you who like this book, but this is trash.
Let's keep fanfiction into the fanfiction department, ok?
Noelia (thisbookishlove)
is 91% done
My dear friends, we made it. Almost there.
Part 3 is just pretty much of the same. Same recycled scenes over and over. Maybe some people like pregnancy tropes, but I loathe them. Specially when it's a forced one like in this book.
The writing keeps being atrocious. The guts some have to compare this to Tolkien or Rothfuss. People, inhaling fungi is bad for your health. LOL.
— Oct 10, 2025 03:19AM
Part 3 is just pretty much of the same. Same recycled scenes over and over. Maybe some people like pregnancy tropes, but I loathe them. Specially when it's a forced one like in this book.
The writing keeps being atrocious. The guts some have to compare this to Tolkien or Rothfuss. People, inhaling fungi is bad for your health. LOL.
Noelia (thisbookishlove)
is 83% done
At 83%, almost 1000 pages, and here it is (at last) the plot twist that has fans of the author on the fence. Although I get where they're coming from, I don't think they fully understand how twisted this story is. And the reason why I disagree strongly with the way Senlinyu decided to portray this story.
I'll dive deeper about this on my review. Stay tuned.
— Oct 09, 2025 06:29AM
I'll dive deeper about this on my review. Stay tuned.
Noelia (thisbookishlove)
is 82% done
Part 2 completed. Finally. It's been 84 years. LOL.
Part 3, I'm coming for you. Just a little bit more. We're almost there.
— Oct 08, 2025 07:53PM
Part 3, I'm coming for you. Just a little bit more. We're almost there.
Noelia (thisbookishlove)
is 79% done
You gotta be kidding me that there's people swooning over this guy Ferron. C'mon. He's a huge walking red flag. He's super controlling and hella possessive. How is this supposed to be romantic? The world's gone mad.
— Oct 08, 2025 07:07PM
Noelia (thisbookishlove)
is 75% done
I'm kinda side eyeing the people falling for these characters. No shade. But, the overly possessive broody alpha male is kinda cliche at this point. Fuc####, saying "you're mine" like a psycho, and literally killing innocent people to "keep the FMC safe"....are walking red flags to me.
— Oct 08, 2025 05:22AM
Noelia (thisbookishlove)
is 65% done
At 65% (almost 810 pages), and given recent events, I think I'm starting to get the whole picture about this story, and I'm not liking it one bit, how it tries to play with your mind, making up excuses to justify what's unjustifiable.
Someone's past traumas doesn't give them free pass to harm others. Just my two tips.
— Oct 06, 2025 06:17PM
Someone's past traumas doesn't give them free pass to harm others. Just my two tips.
Noelia (thisbookishlove)
is 61% done
Please, tell me you didn´t go there, making him the one to save her. Don´t be so bloody obvious. I´m begging you to be smarter than this.
— Oct 06, 2025 12:24PM
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I get the hype, but I don’t. For Dramione fans, Manacled was better. For non-Dramione fans, this book is just confusing and I feel nothing for the characters.
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“I felt nothing “ 😂😂Dying for your updates ❤️
Page wrote: "I get the hype, but I don’t. For Dramione fans, Manacled was better. For non-Dramione fans, this book is just confusing and I feel nothing for the characters."Say it louder for the people in the back!!! 👏👏👏 It´s the reason why I´m torturing myself, trying to get through this. Just to be able to write a proper, non biased, and 0% sugarcoated review for the general public. The more I read, the less I think this book could be enjoy by non-fans readers. It´s confusing, and I difer to everyone saying that it´s supposed to be like this, or that it´s ok, because they equal dense worldbuilding with good worlbuilding, when actually, it´s not. That´s just not true.
LOTR has one of the most complete, best executed and developed, and extremely vast and dense worlbuilding ever in fantasy history. But it´s easy to understand. Here is just a lot of mumble jumbling, and it´s not even like the author came out with these ideas in the first place. They´re profiting of someone else´s intellectual property and having the guts to call it their own. That´s stealing, m´aam.
Andy ₊✩‧₊˚౨ৎ˚₊✩‧₊ wrote: "“I felt nothing “ 😂😂Dying for your updates ❤️"If it wasn´t because I´ve read "Jane Eyre" and "Persuasion", I would´ve thought I´m just a heartless bitch. 😆
But nope, it´s just that this is painfully bad. Sorry not sorry. LOL.
isnt is handmaids tale fanfic.. that sussss
alix wrote: "isnt is handmaids tale fanfic.. that sussss"Yes, originally it was a Dramione and a Handmaid´s Tale fanfic. This is just the trad published version of that fic, but as far as I know, the elements and the story aren´t that different from the original story.
Ugh I hate that. Handmaids tale isn’t meant to be sexualized, Thats the entire point of the novel
alix wrote: "Ugh I hate that. Handmaids tale isn’t meant to be sexualized, Thats the entire point of the novel"Seeing comments like this gives me hope that not everything is lost for humankind.
Yes. Exactly that. I've read The Handmaid's Tale, so seeing how the author took such a delicate element and chose to sexualize it and even build a romantic relationship between the victim and the victimizer is giving me headaches.
Margaret Atwood's point was to reflect on a society where women lost all rights. Here there's no such reflection. It's shallow, which makes it all the worse. The story would have worked the same if instead of keeping those scenes, they had taken them away.
