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Cathy is on page 22 of 1030

… In manacled she didn’t need to explain who Harry or Ginny or Parvati was bcs we knew already and it made certain scenes carry that much more significance.
I know Luc is supposed to be Harry and Grace is supposed to be Hannah Abott, but THIS IS NOT MANACLED you have to actually do the work to build them up and give backstory for me to care. I want to care. But this is only the first 20 pages so I have hope

— Dec 31, 2025 05:32PM

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Cathy is on page 202 of 1030

It’s literal crumbs but they just got like tiny tiny bit of mutual understanding. Very satisfying. I really wanna read from Ferron’s pov I feel like the angst would be legendary

— 21 hours, 49 min ago

Cathy is on page 195 of 1030

Eeee this scene still hits
”are you wanting a confession? Shall I tell you everything I’ve done?”
”Do you want to?”
Yes he doessssssss

— Feb 04, 2026 02:23PM

Cathy is on page 176 of 1030

This seems to be different from manacled. There is something about Soren (Ron) that Helena has suppressed, And I assume it’s eye important if it makes her have this kind of reaction. It’s like her mind auto deleted her recent memory after she tried to remember him too hard

— Feb 02, 2026 02:48PM

Cathy is on page 165 of 1030

So that’s the same at least. Ginny/ Lila’s secret

— Jan 31, 2026 03:44PM

Cathy is on page 148 of 1030

Earlier Athena had a memory from school of her Luc and another person she couldn’t remember. I think I was right to assume that person was Kaine, and that they probably did interact some at school but she has erased those memories too.
That’s definitely a plus in this version, manacled couldn’t really make use of their memories from school but here these two could have a completely different dynamic

— Jan 10, 2026 04:32PM

Cathy is on page 125 of 1030

Heh finally some banter. He’s definitely having fun testing her memory

— Jan 04, 2026 10:45AM

Cathy is on page 111 of 1030

2. It was basically just “wow this is really painful” and she passes out and relives a memory of Luc who I don’t care about. Helena (and Hermione in Manacled) is basically a blank slate. Without the SA which doesn’t need explanation for the reader to become emotional I think the author is struggling to make these scenes actually angsty. Come on, give me something to actually angst over! (That isn’t SA)

— Jan 03, 2026 07:31PM

Cathy is on page 110 of 1030

1.Helena is sterile, so this book is really not going there. That’s a relief.
What I Will say though is I feel like the book so far lacks emotion. I feel kinda disconnected from Helena as a character and the conflict between her and Kaine. She’s a prisoner and Kaine is mean and he performs the resonance on her but the first (so far only) resonance scene was kinda flat…

— Jan 03, 2026 07:24PM

Cathy is on page 78 of 1030

2. I’ve been bracing for reliving those awful scenes again and now that it was just mind torture it feels kinda anticlimactic. That sounds awful I know. I am glad they changed that aspect but I feel they should’ve changed the storybeats and lines too bcs it was extremely recognizable as that scene from manacled, only replacing SA with mind torture. And I wonder what the potion he took was for if not that…

— Jan 03, 2026 12:16PM

Cathy is on page 77 of 1030

1. Ok we just passed the first session scene and it was thankfully way less traumatic than in manacled. Just painful mind magic stuff. I don’t really understand Transference, he is triumf to push his soul onside her mind to unlock her memories?
Anyways the ”get out” and her Tyringe to koll herdefolk after didn’t have the same emotional damage as in Manacled…

— Jan 03, 2026 12:11PM

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