eread:
hm i reread this bc i was confused why i rated this 4 stars the first time and i was still confused why i hadn't rated it 5 stars till i finished, i think I'm being quite hard on this story bc it def deserves 5 stars but a strong critique i have of this is the ending, it felt too sappy to me compared to the earlier dialogues, it almost felt like it became a diff genre for me in that sense, I also wished they addressed the age gap more because professor x teacher can always go wrong there. I am like nit picking tho bc overall ugh this was a rly good read and tbh i'm not changing the rating bc i wanna stay honest to my original reaction when i first read this a year ago. You can definitely agrue the transition from the whole drama -> romance was there, there was a transition, but it almost felt unnatural, the way he just accepted the younger brother, I feel like showing more guilt there due to age gap + him being his ex's brother would have done well, brother complex also almost dissipated too much, considering he lived his childhood and grew up w those ideas I would have wanted it to be more prevalent even if they were in a relationship, the jealousy at the end wasn't any different to jealousy that would have been form a possessive lover, I wanted his brother complex to show up more simply bc it's not relaisitc for his mindset to just change so quickly, it'd take healing
Never Good Enough