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Rating: 3/5- I dropped this around chapter 50. I usually love angst, but this was not angst- it really was not my type of book but I commend the skilful writing and passably likeable characters. Also excellent translation, CG is truly my favorite set of translators!I don't think this book was written for a reader like me. The pacing was so frustrating and illogical but I tried so hard to persevere because I'd enjoyed the author's previous work "Tattoo", but it felt like I was clawing out my own eyes as each chapter passed.Eventually I started skimming through chapters because for the life of me, I could not understand why the author would leave the reason for their divorce towards the end of the book. Perhaps some people like being led by the nose but it made everything feel really anti-climactic when the MC boldly announces he will pursue the ML, only to make you think was there really ever a need for him to do so?The reason for this divorce was plain spite and honestly there was no need for the MC to try to emphatically win over the ML because the ML insisted on doing what he did even when the MC stated clearly that he didn't want to divorce.In my opinion to plainly hurt a person for making a mistake by using divorce as punishment, is cruel. The ML clearly intended on hurting the MC the entire time simply because the MC did what he always did- spoke before thinking. After realising the reason for the divorce I didn't feel the need to finish this book.Maybe because I'm a child of divorced parents, to see someone do this to another person because they were upset and being spiteful and because there were problems that they didn't bother to work through first; I eventually felt that this story made divorce look like a joke to this couple. As a means of punishment because the dynamics of a relationship were changing.I couldn't continue after feeling that way. I'm not really disappointed with the book, the author writes beautifully, but this story became a trigger for me emotionally and I didn't want to delve into that. If people don't have qualms or personal attachments to divorce then you may feel differently when reading this book- but it was a big no for me.
