I agree. This portrays the vast grey area of morality quite well.
I sure as hell wouldn't psychologically torture and physically torture someone, even if I hated them. ESPECIALLY if they were innocent.
But through your hatred of them how would you distinguish that they are “innocent” lol
Again as readers we shouldn’t always contextualize themes in our POV because it blurs the lines and instead see the characters POV
I wouldn’t be too involved with those I hate either but then again I’m not a trained war dog who was brutalized day in day out so my point is moot
Furthermore hatred doesn’t often makes sense to us on the outside because we don’t see or feel the same things. His trauma is literally making him incapable of sound judgement and you expect him to separate the “innocent FL” from the rest of his hatred lol
This is clearly a complex story of assigning wrongs to innocent parties and how trauma obfuscates your reality and your actions.. also bffr like y’all wouldn’t hate the FL too if she was associated with the family that plagued your entire life
The title is clearly “My beloved oppressor” for a reason.. they’ve both oppressed each other unwillingly and sometimes unbeknownst to each other lol
Also her crying for her scum ridden parents made me laugh ngl.. to dozens upon dozens of people her parents represented true terror and violence and for that scene to be shown like that.. I like the dichotomy though
Anyway I loved the novel.. very beautifully written