Responses
I’ll say it was a lot easier of a read since its finished, if I hadn’t read it completed I probably would’ve given this barely a two. I cant imagine waiting between updates with how pissed off I got repeatedly throughout the story.
I definitely have opinions, good and bad. I think I share a similar sentiment to a lot of other commenters in that this would’ve been a lot better if ML hadn’t been such an asshole in the beginning. His awful personality really pissed me off and the whole break up arc kind of felt dumb to me, I also wished maybe the literal rape scenes were executed better? I feel like its dumb to even try to complain about that in Yaoi’s anymore since its common place for authors to just use rape as a conflict starter but I feel like theres more tasteful and respectful ways of portraying it, idk.
As for any positive feelings I have towards this, I appreciate ML stepping up (although if he was such a green flag from the start I think this would’ve been a much easier read) and their relationship is very sweet. I’ll give them that, its really nice to see consensual sex where the bottom actively enjoys it and expresses so. I feel like it was especially important since it gave a very welcomed contrast between ML and his rapist ass cousin. Yeah thats kinda it, this whole story was just meh, I would’ve really loved it if they just fully leaned into the cheesy romance between the two and ML was sweet from the start.