Many share the sentiment. It's just not well paced, and the ending of the "past" stuff isn't even near, not many people feel connected to this version of the characters, feels like a waste of time, and way too much detail. In my opinion, this past life is not AT ALL Interesting. We could have had 5 chapters of past stuff and call it a day.
Gosh, we still have evil brother beginnings arch, and just then Potentially back to present arch. The author started the story and halfway decided they liked the blue dude more than Ian. Fck this series.
Arggrerrkhuuvhffhhf
The flashback itself is pretty good. People's pet peeve is that the flashack isn't its own spin-off and instead taking the main story chapter
I don't think the flashback is good, at the very least, not my taste. I think it would have been more appropriate to begin with that and evolve into the present stuff, in such case I would have not even bothered.
It’s been 84 years since we’ve seen Ian.
Lowkey don’t care about the flashbacks.
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