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my honest rating would be 3.2-3.5so this is a very laid-back story there isn't much face-slapping or terrible drama other than the usual that is common in such settings. It's a slice-of-life story that I can understand for a lot of people coming in would be considered 'boring' just solely because it's very easygoing and not many deep things are discussed. for such novels with this kind of setting where nothing supernatural is going on, more depth needs to be added and the story would need much finer details and allow us to be submerged and feel for people in that century and era...however, this novel did wrap up the relationship very well with the swapped OG ML. For some people ik they read to a certain point and were fed up with how the ml's parents were ready to kick out the 'fake child aka OG ML' and how they turned on him. But if you read further, you'll see how the mother finally came to a realization that how she possibly could have been manipulated by the youngest child (fake/OG ML) leading to years and years of sour build-ups with her other sons turning their relationship poorer. Though the mother should be the one with the greatest responsibility for how things are with her sons...I enjoy how the author gave this foreboding feeling of making the mother suspicious of the child's past actions... its sort of was left to our imagination and like an open book with possibilities...good story, laid back, slice of life, and sort of plain and real.I liked it.
