I absolutely hate how misleading the excerpt is, while it portrays a beautiful and rosy picture of a perfectly going relationship, what we truly get in the first few chapters is chilling and cruel to the bone. I'm a pure romantic at heart, and I genuinely believe not all men are assholes who need to be tamed into normally functioning human beings, who need to be taught that forcefully taking a woman is not the way to show your feelings. It's incredibly atrocious how the main lead (in such typical books) is always treating the female horribly at first and after realising their mistake and a little plot progression (with a pinch of revealing "what really happened back then") suddenly regret their earlier deeds and that is enough for it to be forgotten entirely. I mean do people not realise how cruel the act itself is? And moreover does the woman think herself to be treated fairly when experiencing such things and then acting as if it's just another act of bullying to get over and then get right back to the plot? I mean, what the duckity duck is wrong with the mentality of almost all these novels? Is it entirely impossible to establish a proper communication? Will it kill you to show intelligent villains? Would it be a big inconvenience to actually show reality in fiction? Gosh these first few chapters really have killed all the hope and votes I put in through this week, really disappointed. (All those reading this, please do not just mentally agree and scroll on, we must teach our guys to behave instead of telling the girls to bare with it, rape is NEVER okay)
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LIKEI did, I didn't like how quickly the main leads got together after the six year gap, seemed a bit unrealistic like they were thrown together to make the plot progress quicker just didn't seem natural. I stopped reading after that point though so I have no clue if the story got better later on.