waiting for the sequel with rage-baited breath

very mild spoilers ahead

My thoughts and observations after reading this giant book:

• if you read the sample, know that the first 20% are rough, with a lot of infodumping and in my opinion, overexplaining. I personally prefer to get to know my cast - both heroes and villains - by their own actions and dialogues and less so from their inner monologue that explain the dynamics in detail. Caelan's POV was especially difficult to get through because the poor guy had to explain his whole organization and introduce his pack, all while doing reconnaissance on an enemy base. Can you believe that? Poor guy. It was painful to witness. In a 700 page book, maybe you will feel that 20% is already a heavy investment to soldier through and that's fair. But I am a veteran Wattpad and AO3 reader and since the market has been flooded with AI garbage, I have a lot of renewed vigor in reading HANDMADE, ECO, bad writing.

• my main draw to this story was 2 things: this is a big chonker of a debut, giving me ample opportunity to check out the writing, the story, the character development, rather than being a long prologue for the series. // secondly, the author promises that her butthole MMCs, two in particular, will go through a lot of grovelling in books 2 & 3 which is honestly something I never ever see and I am here for it

• the MMCs in question are absolute thundercunts ofc, but on top of being callous, mean, aggressive, unreasonable, abusive and out of line, one of them also brought something new to the table that I have rarely seen in reverse harem omegaverse: he's a COWARD!! to be clear, there are as many coward MMCs in omegaverse as fish in the sea but seeing an author actually acknowledge that in her narration?? I have never seen that & I can't wait to see him flayed alive for that tbh

• there is ofc one MMC, Caelan, who is best boy and who is on the FMC's side - too bad he's in a coma so we never really find out what his personality is like. I am hoping for some development in book 2

• the story is actually mildly interesting and gets better towards the end of book 1, with some unexpected twists and more depth. Curious to see where this is going, as it is clear that some thought and effort went into this.

it was a fun read!!

amazing

Very odd porn

Not a novel but a nonlinear memoir

This was a tough read mostly because I can't wrap my head around the way that multiple personalities were split off on purpose from a very young age for complete mind kontrol (k from the mk ultra project name I guess)

Truth is much stranger than fiction