I am utterly appalled by the recent developments in this novel. After reading up to chapter 81, I couldn't even finish chapter 82 before giving up in sheer disgust. The introduction of NTR and the MC's despicable actions in destroying a happily married couple with a young child is absolutely repulsive. I had initially hoped the author would refrain from turning the MC into a homewrecker, but instead, they chose to have him meticulously manipulate and seduce the married woman into an affair. To make matters worse, the story expects readers to root for this detestable character. This is a clear indication of the author's complete lack of a moral compass. If you're going to include such reprehensible content, at least have the decency to put an NTR tag on your book! I am thoroughly disgusted and have decided to drop this novel immediately. The MC is truly despicable, and such a character deserves nothing less than a fitting demise in any other story.

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So it’s mostly the little things that make this subpar to terrible. California is a state not a city, and it’s really big with lots of differences across it. If you mean the L.A./Hollywood area as a caricature fine, BUT it does not rain there. The whole point of the area is it has no weather. Cops in the U. S. can get away with lots of stuff, but making a person transfer money out of electronic banking, nope. The setting makes the story less believable not more. It’s like saying all Midwest farming is rice paddies. Unless it’s addressed why culture mashing is happening, it’s just makes the story ungrounded.

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So much nonsense How can someone threaten a rich man who has half a billion dollars The hero can simply hire a bodyguard How can a worthless person kidnap his girlfriend I felt myself that the hero is not safe enough and the hero did not feel anything?And the hero remained like this with a bank account worths half a billion dollars without even a single bodyguard for him or his friends.

It was good enough in the early chapters but when you got into the locked ones the quality dropped drastically. Spelling and grammatical mistakes, characters acting totally unlike themselves to suit the plot, and major gaping plot holes. It seems like author needs a proofreader of some kind. Thats objective flaws with the quality of the writing. The more personal issues I have is that the story went in a very very odd direction in terms of plot. Almost changed genres and not in a good way, and by the end theres no major character growth he just says “alls well that ends well”. And another thing, I know we write what we know and the author is free to express themselves and who they are in their writing, but Im not a fan of shoving current events and social crap into the books, I want to come her and forget the flaws in our world not have them shoved in my face in heavy handed self congratulatory remarks. I thought it had potential, I was thoroughly disappointed.

Man, if you don't want non-privileged readers to stop following your novel, just post an announcement. It's been around a week and with more than 20 chapters since you didn't post a chapter for non-privileged readers

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