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arieznocturne commented on sara_the_story_lover's review of Bait
This is the prime example of a story that was written with one single aim in mind: smut. The worldbuilding, for a better word, is lacking. We don't learn much about the dystopian word -- neither the bunker life, nor the outside one. However, what we do learn is very inconsistent. There seem to be bad outside people who trade(?) with the bunker dwellers, but their threat is practically non-existent. Or rather, it is there, but it seems inconsequential. And well, the characters... Alma is the MMC, but I couldn't say one single thing about her beside the fact that she is horny. Horny for two people, both happen to be outside, together: the ex-best friend and the bestie of a brother. And you couldn't torture heir names out of me. The gist is: girlie gets thrown out, girlie is immediately rescued by two people she knows, girlie is instantly horny (and always has been) for both of them, and after a little bit of brooding -- which is essentially foreplays -- they jumpstart their threesome-era. Ant the conclusion of the story? Now that Horny Girl gets everything she wants, everyone else can just stay in the dystopian hellscape they were born into...
This story just didn't work for me, the smut was smutting, but, maybe because it is very short, but there was no connection to the characters or their story.
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ali hazelwood is allergic to failure, she doesn't know how to avoid delivering every time.
im not rating it 5 ⭐ because I'm still processing that last scene (if you know you know) but I really enjoyed it and it was overall great. out of all the "after the end" novellas I've read so far, definitely the best one (do I even want to continue reading the others? tbd)
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arieznocturne commented on sara_the_story_lover's review of Bait
This is the prime example of a story that was written with one single aim in mind: smut. The worldbuilding, for a better word, is lacking. We don't learn much about the dystopian word -- neither the bunker life, nor the outside one. However, what we do learn is very inconsistent. There seem to be bad outside people who trade(?) with the bunker dwellers, but their threat is practically non-existent. Or rather, it is there, but it seems inconsequential. And well, the characters... Alma is the MMC, but I couldn't say one single thing about her beside the fact that she is horny. Horny for two people, both happen to be outside, together: the ex-best friend and the bestie of a brother. And you couldn't torture heir names out of me. The gist is: girlie gets thrown out, girlie is immediately rescued by two people she knows, girlie is instantly horny (and always has been) for both of them, and after a little bit of brooding -- which is essentially foreplays -- they jumpstart their threesome-era. Ant the conclusion of the story? Now that Horny Girl gets everything she wants, everyone else can just stay in the dystopian hellscape they were born into...
This story just didn't work for me, the smut was smutting, but, maybe because it is very short, but there was no connection to the characters or their story.
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