Really trying hard to stay invested but the bottom is so unpleasant. Which I usually wouldn’t mind (who doesn’t like a cute, moody guy?) but these first few chapters haven’t really given me a hook or push to find out more about this man. He’s not interesting. He’s not abrasive in a “dark and mysterious” way, he’s abrasive in a “jerk who cut you off in traffic and you hope to never see again” way. Why should the reader want to know more about this person? Making a character nearly expressionless but still engaging is already a hard thing to pull off well, but making him an ass on top of that, AND barely giving him any background/ contextual motivation to start off? Taaaall order. Very tall. The next few chapters will have to do a lot of work to convince the readers why this man is worth the time. We’ll see. We’ll see….
Really trying hard to stay invested but the bottom is so unpleasant. Which I usually wouldn’t mind (who doesn’t like a cute, moody guy?) but these first few chapters haven’t really given me a hook or push to find out more about this man. He’s not interesting. He’s not abrasive in a “dark and mysterious” way, he’s abrasive in a “jerk who cut you off in traffic and you hope to never see again” way. Why should the reader want to know more about this person? Making a character nearly expressionless but still engaging is already a hard thing to pull off well, but making him an ass on top of that, AND barely giving him any background/ contextual motivation to start off? Taaaall order. Very tall. The next few chapters will have to do a lot of work to convince the readers why this man is worth the time. We’ll see. We’ll see….