Alright already, but please point me in the direction of the "protagonist name generator" writers keep using. It's apparently of thing of beauty.
Schmille. What do you have to do to get "Schmille"
This guy is taking "emotionally constipated" to new heights.
He's about to reach the equivalent to "paralysis of the bowels".
Now look here my guy, even your "socialized by potatoes"-dragon can follow his base instincts whole-heartedly.
As a boss, I think he's rather useless.
Being a boss entails (in my opinion) that you don't need to know the tiny details, but you need to know about the things happening. If you delegate work (which is "how to boss 1.1") then you also need to be aware of capacity, resources and distribution. If you're the BOSSboss, then you need to have someone assisting you who can go distribute your orders into actual feasible actions.
He's micromanaging her due to trust issues AND also overworking her because amidst all that micro-managing he still has no idea what she's actually doing.
If he dares to hide behind "You should have told me if its too much" or "you should have managed yourself better" I swear I'm gonna climb into this story and kick his ass.
HE was testing her day after day. HE was spitting provocations and putting pressure on her with deadlines. HE let it get this bad under his watch. HE was no trustworthy boss.
And yes, sometimes you get to a point where you need to fix everything as soon as possible, so you can only crunch it with the power of coffee, stubbornness and sheer willpower.
Put the duke into the closet a few more times and he'll start to like it.
They second prince is slowly getting the hang of things, I guess. How to deal with the mayhem, I mean.
And for once I can't quite tell what I should wish for Evelyn (the OG, I guess): that she crosses the border to possibly meet some MORE NORMAL people, or that she just finds some peace right where she is
How much "suspension of disbelief" is necessary?
Roughly all of it.
I think this is the first heroine that goes "once more, with feeling and less dying" just to see her kid again after time rewind.
Same, honestly.
My man is his own worst enemy.
And I don't believe - not for one second! - that this guy can keep his sanity in any capacity. Whatever he accomplished BEFORE seems to have vanished like snow in the sun. Now he's just a lunatic with a grudge and cherished panties with a dreadful amount of authority.
Also hilariously love-sick.
As of ch. 7 I can't even tell who I am rooting for, anymore
Do I want them to leave, and let the fools deal with the consequences of their own greedy decision? I pity the people who had no hand in getting there, but these two deserve their own happiness as well.
Do I want them to stay and lose their window of opportunity to see the world, just as they dreamed of?
One fine day I'll encounter a villain named "Miserére" because another Writer flipped through a medical Lexicon and stopped randomly to choose names
Her going "my, how beautiful" as he rips the divorce papers into confetti is just about the energy of this whole story.
"procrastinated delivering these papers for a whole month and now look at them go"
At this point I'm guessing "that old hag" was his teacher, intending to teach him that he might be a great mage, but also a great unfeeling ass with much room for improvement.
Which won't ever happen if he can just snap his fingers, so a curse it is.
Look, my guy, there's nothing strange about nothing.
anyone anywhere anytime would fall for victoria.
This IS a burning trashcan, BUT.
That was a painfully accurate depiction of how an abuse victim might react once they see their almighty abuser shrunk down to banal proportions. Laughing is ABSOLUTELY on the table, just rarely depicted without a manical expression.
But her face was filled with wonder.
Soft, amused wonder that might seriously help her overcome the years and years because she was THERE she SAW how that impenetrable, invincible person got whacked and bled and begged for mercy just as she did.
Pointing and laughing IS a cure
Why is everyone so ... useless.
The FL can't make a straight shot for anything without dithering, although she's hailed as someone who manages crises. How do you manage crises if you can't make up your mind about anything. Portrayed as cold and tough with a backbone of mashed potatoes. That just doesn't go together.
The ML is just utterly useless in every aspect. Even his reasons for being so useless is basically just another layer of uselessness. You want to be a king? what for even? For one girl to look at you fondly even though you can't pull your head out of your own ass for long enough to overcome the frailty of your ego?
This is probably aimed at people two or three decades younger than me, but good god. This plot flew at me with the velocity of pudding and did a similarly graceful landing.
As of ch. 32 I gotta ask.
What was his idea. Honestly. Him going full steam ahead to get her? Yeah, well, if he thinks so. (I'm not cheering for him) What's his plan?
He has her in front of him for the first time and dares getting COLD FEET?!
Look alive brother, she was the happiest clam that ever fled her homeland until you started a war, and you have no plan at all, no bearing, no dignity, no contingency plan and as the smoothest move in the history of smooth moves you think threatening your only ally for the last decade is your insanely brilliant cure all?