- #1
First of all, the side stories are basically required reading for anything resembling a satisfying ending, so keep that in mind. Another warning, I hope you like s*upid and oblivious characters since the ML literally doesn’t realize he loves FL until the last 10-15 chapters.Anyway, this story has some major tonal dissonance. It’s a good story in that I can feel the FL’s emotions at most points. It starts out honestly pretty comedic since the FL has lots of snarky/sassy comments. Not too far in though the tone is just depression and angst. Then you get a bit of a reprieve, then even worse depression, and then the end, and then the side stories with the real end. The tone changes were a bit much but it was the ending for me.Spoiler
So basically the ML teams up with og!FL to take down the prince, but decides to not tell FL anything. You can sniff what’s coming from a mile away. But the thing is she is repeatedly demeaned and humiliated because she wasn’t let in on this plan. After all the despair she went through, the ML didn’t do enough groveling for my taste to make up for it. Like he gives her the freedom she wants, but he doesn’t prove enough to me that he regrets the turmoil he put her through, heck I don’t think he even understands the turmoil he put her through, all that she was willing to do for him, he doesn’t prove to me that he deserves her
[collapse]Anyway that spoiler stuff plus the tone changes is what knock it down for me