- #1
Dropped. This had an engaging (if boiler plate) premise, ab*sed daughter kicks ass for the sake of an abusive family and dies-- only to go back in time in order to fix things and live her best life, and I was following along well enough until we met the male lead (?? It's still unclear if he's endgame at time of dropping, but he fits most of the qualifications) and he starts scheming. The story can't keep a tight narrative and the scheme of the male lead is so far removed from the FL's priorities wrt the demonic miasma and stuff that I get tonal whiplash between her going out and taking care of that in secret and then falling in to a My Fair Lady/Anastasia type romantic (?) scenario. Maybe I'll come back once it's finally finished and see if it works better as a full read, but as it stands it's a chore to get through.