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Obviously, I love Mother Mafi and wouldn’t dream of disrespecting her, and I don’t think this is her fault, more an ingrained societal expectation of fantasy FMCs after the main plot, but it feels really misogynistic, and I hate it. (6/6)

Juliette is in this book and Watch Me. Fingers crossed once the baby comes she gets more page time - I can totally see Warner being a stay at home dad, but I don’t want his career to be prioritised over hers. Don’t get me wrong, I love Aaron as much as the next person (in fact, the cardboard cutout of him in my room is staring at me as I write this), but I HATE how the narrative is treating Juliette here (5)

Than Juliette, because, y’know, it’s AARON FREAKING WARNER ANDERSON CHIEF COMMANDER AND REGENT ON SECTOR 45, but just because he’s the one who’s everyone’s book boyfriend, doesn’t mean that the reader’s don’t want to see Juliette being a badass head of state. Plus, there’s no reason they both can’t be active in the plot. I just really dislike how inconsequential and submissive to Warner (3)

But it doesn’t make sense/ I hate it in terms of Juliette’s character arc. I don’t like that she’s been this total badass FMC in her series, and now has effectively done the fantasy FMC epilogue trope where she becomes a docile tradwife and loses her powers (although she hasn’t, but undoubtedly never uses them). Obviously I get that they’ve audience would rather have Warner involved in the plot (2)