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In “romantic” fictional narratives where multiple women are competing for the same man, this is where you can see the normalized misogyny some women have against each other. The male in question is rarely held accountable for their bad behavior or cruelty against one or multiple women, but the “competition” (other women) are vilified in innumerable minute ways. I’m seeing a bit of that here.

I feel like I space out when reading or listening to books that have a (slump?) of bad writing in the middle. Ironically, they’re the parts of the book I re-read numerous times because I’m just not taking in the plot points. If I put it down during one of these parts, I’ll likely never pick it up again.