Marquise’s Reviews > The Red Winter > Status Update

"Devastating love story," uh? I've seen tamer horny gay/hornier bi pairs than this & with more believable excuses.

And this has a built-in voyeur.
And a M/M/F threesome. Or M/M/F/D counting the built-in voyeur.
And then a M/D dub-con (or rather a non-con) after.

Looks like the earlier controversial plot twist is the least of the issues.

I'll read this to the end. Sunk Cost Fallacy + So Bad It's Good victim = me.

Slight improvement by this point, emphasis on the slight.

There may or mayn't be hope for this book yet, there may or mayn't be some sort of inner consistency.

Still, that controversial twist is going to have a cost. Hefty.

Also wondering what the author's beliefs are, if any, because of certain weird religious stuff here.

I'll persevere till the 50% mark to decide if this is worth to keep going or bail out.

Interesting choice of narrator, and interesting storytelling style too. I was expecting a serious "tone," but got a scholarly MMC with a dry humour & a "snarky demon living inside me" plot instead.

I can see merely 5 chapters in what the author's take on the Beast of Gévaudan will be like (downsides of being familiar with the legend), yet the book's works for me so far. A case when predictability doesn't spell Doom?