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Once upon a time, Marcel's sister fell in the forest while gathering herbs. Her injuries were g...
Start: 01/30/25 || Ended: 02/01/25 - 3.75/5
Ch 1-6, 12: 4/5
I really do wish all 12 chapters were just this story. It’s a very slow and soft story with this depressing atmosphere hanging overhead. Like, there's no color but it felt very “quiet 4pm grey rain clouds but it never actually rains" with that touch of blue and green that’s on the cover and small pops of color from the flower… I love it and wanted more.
But because the story felt slow in its dialogue and what were seeing the pacing of how these 6 chapters play out felt too fast. I don’t know if that made scene, but all of these chapters were short and some of them I thought could've just been 1 combined chapter to the point where the story was moving too fast for how slow the content felt. Because we only had 6 chapters and all of them were less than 22 pages, pared with the small surface leveling feeling dialogue left me wanting more of this story. I wanted more of Marcel and Gisel together. More of their in-between moments like Gisel teaching Marcel to read, more of Marcel’s sister and her husband, more dialogue and emotion from everyone that I know 6 chapters and a span of 40 pages in the structure those chapters were presented would not have been able to give us.
Ch 7: 2/5
As... vague as that was, I didn't like it. That “boy" definitely looked 18-19 and the grown-ass man looked 25. Don't know if he was real or not but not only was that boring, I didn't like them.
Ch 8: 3/5
Haha, that scared me at first. I thought there was going to be a police romance but it turned out ok.
Ch 9: 2/5
I think this was supposed to be bittersweet but I didn't feel anything… The condition were interesting and how that effected his boyfriend along with his thought were interesting. But as a oneshot, I felt I needed more to actually care.
Ch 10-11: 3.75
I know I said that I wanted story 1 to has been the whole book and I do still feel that way in a sense, but if there’s one story I would give exception to it would be this one. I’m sad that it only had 2 chapters because I felt like if this had one more chapter I would’ve been more satisficed with how the last chapter went. Not that it was bad, they were just as cute as the main story couple, but that’s why I wanted an in-between chapter for them. Give me more of their character to eat.
I'm here for this. I'm here for them. This has the same quiet feel the first story has, it felt nice.