Review Detail of Elissiaro in Can't Take My Eyes Off You
Review detail
32 chapters in I had to stop reading. I just hate the Main Character so freaking much. She is SO weak. Cant speak, cant stand up for herself or the husband she suddenly loves now. Ok so. She HATED him. And was only married cause he convinced her parents to force her into it. She runs the **** away for 7 years. Story/prologue begins, shes hiding out in a remote mountain village as like the only doctor or something. Travelling somewhere during a storm with some soldiers, landslide, surprise! Stalker husband Followed her and has been creeping on her the whole time, except he saves her from the landslide and dies. She reads his will, it says he loved her n ****. Whoop she now loves him too. And the dies of heartbreak or whatever and wakes up in the past after he just forced that marriage on her. Que family dinner with the inlaws. And she sits there. For FOUR chapters being berated by her mil fil and sil cause sil found out she applied to the wrong medicine university ir something. Meanwhile husband, whos at least a nice stalker, tries to defend her and she just there. As useful as a cauliflower. Fast forward. They visit her parents, whom she, quite understandably, distanced herself from in the past after they completely ruined her life. Now she forgives them. They were right all along. Hes the perfect man. And never mind that he apparently never even bothered to tell her he liked her. (Did i forget to mention that? Apparently he went completely behind her back on the whole marriage thing and she though he didnt want it either. ) Anyway, they were right. She was wrong. She shouldve just settled into the life they forced on her and stepford smiles her way 2 happiness. Never mind the fact that she was literally unhappy enough to run away for 7 years never talking to him or her family or her friends presumably. No she was in the wrong the whole time. Is pretty much literally what she was thinking us she prepared to meet her parents and I don't like it. So I stopped reading. And the thing is , I think I would have liked the story about her past. I could have been on her side, you know, rebelling against her ****ty parents, to escape a forced marriage. And and then eventually instead of a stupid mudslide killing him and her reincarnating, he could have used his words, had a conversation, maybe gone on a date, and they could have fixed their marriage that way without her becoming a weak, spineless little doormat.
Can't Take My Eyes Off You
Qing Feng Mo Wan
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i would agree if this was contemporary novel. But seeing this is set some fifty or so years in the past and in China (or that’s my take on it), I thinks it’s kind of understandable that parents manage the life of their offspring and children listen and just try to make it. I am not saying it’s right but it’s the way that it used to be. I find it real in this aspect.
I’ve read a little further than you have (probably) and made a review on some of the same things about selfish FL’s in this type of story and looking past all that then it was relatively mediocre story and would have been fine imo if not for the magical cat sh*tshow that appears way to late in the world building (even though it’s still early in the story). But going to what was supposed to be the point of this post was that she actually mentions that if she had pressed on that she didn’t want to get married, her parents would have called it of. But also says that she herself wanting to prove that she would suffer in that marriage agrees just to F-ing spite them. Only later to say that she actually liked him but had the mentality that she didn’t because of her wanting to go against mama and papa and prove that she was right and that she would definitely suffer being married to him
