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Basically, storm and silence fans.

Funniest fandoms are where the fans are like, "I'm obsessed with this. I don't recommend it even slightly."

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If only😭

i wish i was lying when i said all that. the book is still not over. im waiting for the next chapter to be put out.

Hi people! Been awhile, gimmie updates who died

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Absolutely love this!!

Things that happen in book 6 that we don’t talk about enough

Okay so I never actually got round to book 6 all I know is that they go crack cocaine or something and apparently they get married and Ambrose tells lilly he’s happy at like the very end so rn that’s all I know so reading this will have my genuine reactions and stuff

So sis, runs through a funeral? Why was this necessary... Coffin parkour? Sir rob what are you writing

Sir rob I don’t know what the fuck a tarpaulin is I’m cryin

She still has the curtain ring I-

Mr Ambrose being ambidextrous

Why is he trying to make her a house wife? What the fuck happened between book 5 and book 6? Did he crack his scull open? What the HELL

“Now that you’re entering matrimonial relations, you will naturally wish to resign your position in order to assume your wifely duties” SIR HAVE YOU MET LILLIAN LINTON?

Why is lillys inner dialogue somewhat happy about this? Book 1 lilly would be extremely miffed and not at all swayed,,

And now he’s gonna try hard to make her resign again? When will you learn WHEN WILL YOU LEARN THAT YOUR ACTIONS HAVE ᶜᴼᴺˢᴱᵠᵁᴱᴺᶜᴱˢ

Aka boy you tried this shit in book 1, you tried this shit again in book 2 and after a blissful period of not trying it ur now trying my patiences?? Have you learnt NOTHING SIR

Ella vs eve the wedding planning rivalry we never expected to see

Aunt branks bipolar love, hatred, lated and hove of Lillian

ADRAIAAA

sis is cocky about ambroses failed attempts at firing her, we love to see it

Karim the flower girl

Lilly the cocoaine advertiser

Why are they having a challenge over lilly keeping her job sis

Lillian “make his pockets hurt” Linton with her massive campaign

Mr Pearson (sallow face) taking joy in mr Linton doomed fate is a beautiful thing to witness

Mr Ambrose being pissed at lilly spending 1000 pounds... She spend double that

WHY IS SHE GIVING ELLA COCAINE

SHE DIDNT ASK WHAT COCAINE ACTUALLY IS

She gave Pearson a the bonbon

“nO mAtTeR wHaT hApPenS tOdAy I sTiLL lOVe yOU” bitch trying to be nice before he about to fire her. “If you fire me I’ll hate ur guts forever” “enough to call off the wedding” I WISH SHE DID

“THiS iS fOr tHe bESt yOu kNoW” I’m gonna kill him. “a wOmAnS plAce iS iN tHE hoME. not an office.... a wOmAn tRue vOcAtiOn iS in tHe Home” I’m going to murder him

The immesnse profit cocaine cough drops brought was a real fuck u ❤️

Honestly tho he really wanted her to fail? Apparently it’s because he’s scared for her life and doesn’t want her to keep risking it by working for him but still, I’m gonna kill him.

Mr Pearson dancing on his desk, we love to see it

“You have until the wedding to prove yourself. Game on!” sir shut the FUCK up

He puts a crate in her office? It’s a typewriter and she’s not at all dealt with it but suddenly can type while mr ambrose has a whole speech planned for her to write down

And she does it flawlessly? Sis I’ve been using the qwerty keyboard my whole life and I still cannot write for shit

They surprisingly had some good communication skills right after she threatened to name their kid Qwerty Ambrose

She uno reversed his over time

“Since you’re footing the bill-” “I what?” The complete horror in his voice when he said “wedding planning?”

Don’t be ridiculous mr Linton trains are made of steel not lace SIR U BIG DUMB BABY

He was FRANTIC trying to get out of his. Karim was force into mutiny so he wouldn’t get suckered into wedding prep and for that we have to stan

My coke heads ella and eve going through withdrawal symptoms

They want an expensive wedding believing mr ambrose won’t care about a few measly thousand pounds and Ambrose wants not that. Immovable force (the desire for a expensive wedding) vs unstoppable object (skinflintbrose)

“Oh I’m so glad I’ll finally have a brother, may I call you rick?” “No.” “Thank you rick!” Power move

“What’s you’re name again? Lilly told me it was something funny like Richard Fenrose or Ecard Amase” ELLA AND HER POWER MOVES IM SCREAm

ELLA CALLED HIM A LOSER IM 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

“Ha. Ha. Ha. What a wonderful sense of humour you have darling”

She called him a blighter too

NWHSJS SHE TELLS HIM TO SHUT UP TWICE

Ms Ella Linton has me deceased

Adaria and lady Samantha are back!!

“I’m his sister” “oh don’t worry I won’t hold it against you” ELLA DIDNT COME TO PLAY TODAY

Adaria drags him alone into a room somewhere to scream at him

“R.A wed L.L” I-

Mr ambrose YELPED

Ambrose senior doesn’t approve of Lilly and isn’t coming to the wedding🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪

He, with some gently nudging, hugs his mommy

Adaria, his mother, Ella and eve all fail to get ambrose to pay for a decent wedding not in the East End

When she pulled the “dick” “dicky” “dicky-wicky” “dicky dum dums” card and Mr ambrose has one of the worst things to happen to a man about to enter a marriage: he ran out threats which is forcing his hand into the providing the wedding lady Samantha and others want

We discover his Manor House which is somehow profitable, and is larger than battle wood

I’m wondering why mr victor Linton hasn’t been brought up by lady Samantha hmm..

Anyway, Ambrose deems the future wedding at his Manor House instead of the east end or Westminster an acceptable compromise

Evil attacks of niceness

Haggling the wedding date with his mother

“We should all go dress shopping the day after tomorrow!” “The day after tomorrow is impossible. That is a weekday. Miss Linton is busy on weekdays.” “Busy? What possibly could an unmarried woman be busy during the week, dear brother” anyway looks like ms Linton has a day off 👀👀👀

“May allah protect your extremities” KARIM WTF

they’re unveiling the tarpaulin

ITS AN ELEVATOR SJJDJDE

It’s a terrifying elevator with a risk of death a link is here of what it looks like- https://youtu.be/-Kq1D6FS7LM

poor karims praying he’s that terrified of it

DOESNT THIS IDIOTIC MAN KNOW THE MORE ARROGANT HE IS ABOUT HER RESIGNATION THE MORE SHE DOES THE THING HE DOESNT EXPECT HER TO DO

of course shes gonna jump on the elevator

A second after she jumps of the elevator he comes off it too and tells her never again to go on it because it’s too dangerous SIR WHAT DID U JUST TELL HER TO DO

They kissed a bunch and now the speed of the elevator is gonna be halved so a hurray for good working conditions

^ too hilarious not to include the whole thing he deadass said YEET

Dress shopping and she wants her AUNT BRANK THERE SIS. Okay she’s doing it to be evil we have to stan

Lady Samantha called her a well mannered lady and all her aunt could say is “wrx”

THE FAKE FRENCH LADY LMAOO

She just straight up asked a stranger to be her maid? Vinnie? I can’t say I understand

Hehe lady mecalf is gonna see her

Lilly wants to invite people she hates but she doesn’t want them to attend her special day but she wants to rub it in their face,, so ambrose says invite them but then turn them away at the door,, PETTYBROSE STRIKES AGAIN they’re made for eachother

Intercontinental inter course

Why’s he so manipulative :/ their first open conversation about their relationship and it was just ammo to use against her

She told him about her inability to do “woman’s work” and finds herself more suited to this job

She remembers her mom in that moment I wish we knew more about her

Also the fact their first open conversation of their relationship is a few weeks before the wedding says a lot 💀💀💀

Darling, Please be so kind as to fetch me a cup of tea, thank you, rick

Your living fiancé, Ricky

XOXO IS THIS MAN ON CRACK

He put cushions, vases of flowers and paintings in his office,,, sir is it not more expensive to play these games than it is just to keep her on as an employee

Mr stone is doing all the housewife jobs ambrose is putting Lilly up too and Lilly is doing is job and I think that’s beautiful

Greeting her with a broad smile while calling her darling

At one point he had his feet on the desk jsjsjjsjd

I swear to god this man is a sociopath 💀

He’s not wearing his tailcoat AND HE WANTS HER TO MEND IT IM

KARIM IS SO WORRIED FOR AMBROSE and is PRAYING TO ALLAH FOR HIM IMDNDJSJDN

Mr stone is reading smut during his job lmaooooo

Why’d it take her so long to realise Ambrose was manipulating her 💀

KARIM WAS SMILING WHEN HE RETURNED BACK TO NORMAL

Raised eyebrow again

ADARIIAA

Has Ambrose bought lillys family’s old estate????????? 👀👀👀👀👀👀

Karim doesnt rat out her and mr stones job swapping and said “hell! He needs tou that’s why” albeit he said it in punjabi so lilly wouldn’t understand

Ambrose ✨LOST✨

“And I, really really love you” sir stop trying to get forgiven

And lady Samantha has met victor Linton and now he’s in the wedding party 💀

SHES STILL WEARING THE CURTAIN RING

Mr victor Linton was sent on important business I wonder what’s gonna happen when she asks about him to her other sisters /aunt and uncle

His MOTHER (and his sister) have both asked lilly if she’s sure she wants to marry him 💀💀💀💀

“Are you devoid of feelings” “yes” phat mood

Even on the way to their WEDDING VENUE Ambrose is still so possessive and jealous that he doesn’t want another man at the wedding

“You have to have men at your wedding Rick at least one” “no, I don’t” “then who will be ur best man” “Karim”

I’m DEAD^

His house ISNT Lilly parents estate however it is massive and awe inspiring

BARB AND WIRE ❤️❤️❤️ BEFORE THE STORMM

“Adequate boy” MAN CANT EVEN PRAISE HIS DOGS

People are taking furniture from his house? Is he running a shop? ITS A FURNITURE WAREHOUSE AND SHOP

Patsy not waiting for servants to take in their luggage and carrying her own, making aunt brank, lillys sisters and even KARIM eyes go wide

Benson has a tragic origin story

Why does she wanna live in his furniture warehouse 💀 sis just live with him in London

Lilly is single handedly reviving the village next to his house

Hiring so so many staff

She really grabbed his ass right in front of his mother and a vicar

Okay she only did it because she knew ambrose wanted a home desperate and she was gonna give him one brb I’m gonna go and cry

She saw his minatures paintings of his family and a stone from battlewood under his floorboard

Shes led him to their bedroom and the covers are sea green and the pillows are brown and for some reason this works💀💀💀 I have much doubt

WHY DID THIS BOOK TURN SO DIRTY HE WAS TOUCHING HER 🐱 THEN HIS BELT BUCKLE HITS THE FLOOR AND SAID “I CANT WAIT TO TOUCH YOUR SOFT-” HE NEVER FINISHED SOFT WHAT SOFT WHAT -AND THEN SHE WAS TOUCHING HIS 🍆 AND SQUEEZED IT??????? SIR ROB WHAT. And then she opened the door and watch his ... go up and down and called it rather noticeable 💀💀💀💀💀💀 I CANNOT what happened to no details hejsjsj CHILDREN READ THIS BOOK

His mother is calling for him so he goes under the covers so with only his face visible I-

Speaking of his mother why does he want sex every time his mother is under the same roof? 2/3 times his mother was in the same house, only one attempt worked back in battlewood

Lilly didn’t fuck him bc they unwed and now he is very very interested interested for the wedding to happen faster hmmmmm I wonder why

Good granny bad granny

Rikkard ambrose not even PAYING the grannys say he will deduct 3 shillings from their wages which they are not paid, so he says they will OWE him 3 shillings IM-

Lilly forgot about the guest list 💀

He only wanted to stop working and talk to her if she changed her mind about the other day and wanted to continue their “encounter”

What happened to halalbrose mr I don’t wanna live in sin

SHE SAID I DONT CARE IF HIS BALLS ARE BLUE 💀💀💀💀💀 (not to anyone to the reader but I’d kill to know his reaction to that)

SHES GONNA INVITE AMY

LIEUTENANT ELLINGHAM????????

MS HAMILTON IM??????

AMYYYYY

Juicy Jenny the ,,, juice maker and carol

Lilly is actually so considerate? I’m surprised 💀 she’s giving everyone food cause she can see the girls who came with Amy havent eaten a decent meal in so long

LADY SAMANTHA BEING THE KIND AND NON ELITEST PERSON SHE IS

Sir rob really said Jenny has juices come from her 🐱 and I really hate that. Sis can’t wear clothes during foreplay apparently I really didn’t need to know that

She made Amy her maid of honour 🥺

“Nice to see you again miss Linton, or should I say mister Linton” IM- FUCK DOGLEASH

He’s got grey hairs now Lmaoo

DOGLEASH THINKS SHE HOODWINKED AMBROSE LMAOO

he think Rikkard doesn’t know she’s a girl but that he’s duped him into marriage while pretending to be his male secretary 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀 he really thinks Victorian women were that desperate for ambroses hand in marriage

BARB AND WIRE- I think barb bites his balls???? Hit bit near them anyway. Wait where did they come from?? Who brought them??

Dogleash is convinced he’s got Lilly and now is making her find a key from ambrose and give him some Manhattan papers

So instead of telling her future husband she makes out with him in their bedroom and searches his body for key?? Sis where’s the communication

They don’t fuck as Ambrose finds out about dogleash and starts shouting and Karim comes into the room to find the danger

Karim DRAGGING patsy is what I desperately needed to see

Everyone is hell bent on protecting Lilly which is sweet

Speaking of patsy where was her reaction to lilly marrying ambrose? Surely not the chauvinist who ruined her Hyde park demonstration

So the vicar is absolutely horrified that Ambrose isn’t a generous and charitable man surprise surprise and he takes lilly and her gaggle of friends and family + Karim (jk Karim is family) to Ambroses tenants houses which are just in awful condition because ambrose lacks empathy and good will but we knew that already

Anyway the gaggle of friends and family are ready to start fixing up the house themselves which leads to THIS interaction

KARIM KNOWS NOT TO FUCK WITH THE FEMINISTS we love to see it

So the book finally went into the anti capitalist way I’ve been WANTING

Through a community effort and also by manipulating women of high social classes lilly and her gaggle are repairing the houses

She made him feel GUILTY we love to see it

Young Tom (tries to) BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF AMBROSE I LOVE TO SEE IT

All cause he was kissing Lillian 🥺❤️❤️ and toms mom mrs delany said only married people should kiss

Everyone in the town loves lilly because she’s improving their lives

Young Tom says ambrose can come to dinner if he behaves himself 💀💀

I love young Tom I would die for young Tom

Ambrose is the rare position of lost for words and jaw dropped and in that positioned trembled from lillys kiss

She stuffed cake in his mouth and later he fed her cherry’s i didn’t expect that

“Some things in my life are more than adequate” that’s the most romantic thing he’s ever said

Uncle bufford I forgot he existed for a hot minute 💀💀💀

HE FOUND HER GUN

HE THOUGHT SHE WAS PREGNANT WHEN SHE SAID SHE WAS IN TROUBLE INDHDJDJJD

“Don’t you dare get yourself killed” loving words from the only older family member who lilly cares about

RIKKARD PUNCHED DOGLEASH IN THE FACE

“No matter how powerful you are, the two of us have something more precious than your entire fortune: trust”

Ambrose punched dogleash in the Jugular❤️ but then dogleash punched ambrose in the face with a brass knuckle THE DAY BEFORE HIS WEDDING 💔

DOGLEASH CALLED AMBROSE A MENIAL SIMPLETON IM- 💀💀

He flinched at the sound of her voice I’m 🥺

Dogleash dared to imply adaria became a prostitute to help her family while they were poor and Rikkard was in the colonies

SHE SHOT HIM IN THE LEG LIVING LEGEND

BOTH LEGS IM

She either grabbed his ass or his dick infront of Karim and the hidden men in the shadows “M-miss Linton!”

Why did dogleash have hidden men in the shadows? Idiot

KARIMS A SAVAGE HE CANT HIDE HIS HATRED I LOVE HIM “let him bleed to death?” and “the compost heap?”

“Over my dead body!” “What did you say mr ambrose” “I said it’s going to be bloody!”

A MENSURATAL JOKE <- the content I NEED in sns

Lilly searching dogleashes clothes for blackmail and asks for ambroses help which leads to this: “You want me to help you feel up-” SIR WHY DID U PHRASE IT THAT WAY

“There! Do you feel that? Something hard!” “Miss Linton!” “Not that kind of something hard! Hand me a knife will you?” WHAT HAPPENED TO ROBS PG BOOKS

Dogleash is so extra with as secret pocket for these keys boy I swear to god

SHE PULLED HIS NOSE HARD 💀💀

“Miss Linton?” “Yes?” “I feel an intense, irrational affection for you”

“I feel a sudden desire to take a ride with my brides” sir we know

He told her basically everything and then she held him against her chest for a long time - I think that’s the first time she’s comforted him like that

Throughout his explanation he sounded like he was near tears 🥺 and his Adam’s apple bobbled

He said is WAS happy back then

She’s gave him dogleashs money from his wallet 💀💀 and he took is faster than she could blink 💀💀💀 and said “you know the true way to my heart”

WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO STORM AND SILENCE WHAT HAPPENED IM CRYING WHY WHYWBYWHWYW WHY ^^^^

Anyway they stole the documents from his safe IN the portrait and they also hire a stable boy

CAPTAIN CARTER 😭❤️❤️💘❤️💖💘🖤💘💜💖🖤💘💛💞🤍💖🖤💘🖤💘🤍💘🤍💓💘💖🤍💘🤍🖤💖🖤🧡💖 ITS BEEN TOO LONG IVE MISSED HIM

So adaria and carter are first love encounter happened huh

SAMANTHA THE SAVAGE SCREAMING AT HER SON CAUSE SHE THOUGHT HE AND LILLY GOT MARRIED AT THAT SCOTTISH PLACE

Ambrose and Lilly after kicking out the bridal part getting a lil make out session (along with discussion dogleash) right before the wedding

The bridal party namely adaria interrupting them, the second interruption forces a harsh response from ambrose

Turn out it was his mother 💀

“Storm of bells” was used we love a good title reference

So dogleash just got into their manor without issue? No body noticed him coming in on CRUTCHES into lillys dressing room?? Eye

He wants Lilly to leave ambrose on the altar??? Sir??? Pls go back to the crack house you originated from

WHAT OR WHO IS ENFIELD

A whole chapter dedicated to gifts bruh

most notable is her skinflint uncle have her a gift ❤️❤️❤️

Second most notable is the glove fingers from Ella WHO STILL DOESNT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE

A STORM??? ROB THIER SAID STORM AND SILENCE OR NOTHING. How symbolic of him

AUNT BRANK IS WALKING DOWN AMBROSE I CANNOT

MR AMBROSE WORE A TUXEDO WITH THE PRICE TAG STILL ATTACHED SO HE COULD RETURN IT 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

“You. You’re the only thing worth waiting for”

Bufford called her valuable ❤️

THE WEDDING RING WASNT A CURTAIN RING 💓💓💓💓

It was engraved R.A & L.L.

I just 🥺🥺🥺

Mrs ambrose,, WACK she’ll always be lillian Linton for me

He calls her lillian too

“Why don’t we step inside together” 💖❤️💕🧡💞🤍💘💕💖💜💖💛💞❤️💖

“Lillian.” “Rikkard.”

She doesn’t use the glove finger damn

SHES RIDING HIM MY GOD

Name a better duo than Lillian and ambroses ear you can’t they’re like this🤞

“Dif if not fe greeting I exkfpected to refeive in the morning”

Did sir rob really mention the quantity of what mr Ambrose,,,,

HE SAID HES HAPPY

The thing with dogleash was animal fat no I won’t explain further

Why’d he get out of bed naked 💀💀💀in front of the maid

Samantha asked if they fucked

ELLA WAS INVOLVED IN A DRINKING COMPETITION isnt it scandalous if high class women drink 💀💀💀💀

When the visitor is given permission to talk freely infront of lady Samantha of course this means don’t you DARE speak freely

Something about poultry, golden eggs, wolves, criminally dangerous wolves and Australia

I just love that they call eachother mr and mrs Ambrose instead of their first names, in public anyway

He said WE’LL need to depart immediately

BOOK ONE AMBROSE COULD NEVER,, I cannot believe growth happened

The end - and the beginning

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Three years later😭

✨Spoilers✨

-The 8th book is a shit-show. Lilly and Rikkard are pirates. With my guess, they've been pirating up until Lilly's 9th month of pregnancy. they come back to london with a kid they found on the pirate ship and just leaves her at a factory as chief toy tester and we don't get to know what happens to her after that for the entirety of the series. the book ends with Rick getting a letter that his dad is going to force Adaira to marry some french dude who "tried to kill Lilly and Rick" which caused them to be pirates in the first place and with Lilly's water breaking.

-9th book is honestly tolerable. just kidding. Opens with Lilly giving birth, the baby isn't crowning, lilly is under anesthesia still conscious, doctors don't know anything so Rick get his hands dirty. I mean that literally. That man puts his hand inside her (yup 🙂) and flips the baby. According to him, he's got plenty of experience birthing cows in farm he use to work at💀. It's a boy, YAY! A week later, they head to Battlewood(yes just a week after her giving birth) to save Adaira. Rick's brilliant plan was to declare Victor Linton, AKA Lilly as a man, and Adaira is in love. So now the entire book is post-partum Victor/Lilly(how the women is not utterly exhausted from her birth giving needs to be studied) having a Macho-out with the French dude, because she wants him dead for trying to sink her while she was pregnant, only to find out he actually wants to marry Adaira and not faking his love to get to Rick and never actually tried to kill them, it was dogleash(obviously) tricking them into believing it was the french dude. then Rick's dad was like you either become the next Marquess(which is bad bcs the rich white nobles back then were not allowed to have jobs bcs working is a lower class thing, hence Rick cannot have a business empire) or he'll force Adaira to marry who ever he says bcs she's not of age yet and he has authority over her. But Rick says fuck you and now Adaira can inherit the title(apparently women could inherit titles) so grandpa Ambrose does not want to marry her off to a rando but he'll still do it. So Adaira runs away and hence forth we go to the next book. Also the baby starts talking. that guy is 3 weeks old and he talks... his first words are "papa gimme mon-nee". No joke. Oh, and Lilly and Rick does the hanky-panky even if its only been a few weeks since she gave birth :)

-10th book they go to india bcs Adaira left lilly a letter saying she's off to find Captain Carter bcs they love each other (yea they interacted for 5 minutes in the 6th book and they started sending each other letters.) and he's stationed in india. this book we get POV from Adaira and James Carter (this book is so shit btw). Adaira tries to join the army, dressed as a man only to get called a chest-hairless noodle boy, but she's desperate to get to india. while Rick prepares for the india trip, lilly looks for a governess(nanny) and put ads out with "Yo i need some nans to take care of my money munching baby. we going to the land that our ppl are colonizing". Adaira sees the ad not knowing it was lilly, gets cuaght, makes lilly promise to never tell rick, lets her be in disguise while lilly lies to rick that adaira is till not found, in the yacht they took to india rick discovers nanny is actually adaira, tries to turn yacht around, he sees adaira's letter to carter and says "uh fine we'll rescue him from the revolution in india that i set off". Oh yea, rick set of a revolution in India by revealing dogleash army has bullets greased in cow and pig fat, so that would mean this book is taking place around 1852-1853 (the first book is 1839). I cannot tell you how much I was enraged at having a real incident be portrayed in this book as a side plot to bring tension between the main characters. I could punch the author in the face :) anyway, Adaira now has Lilly's personality and carter is a flirty weirdo. Ah yes, last but not least, if i'm not wrong lilly, rick, and adaira does brown-face and wear indian mens clothes to disguise themselves. Rob writes it off the brown-facing as "them getting a fake tan to fit in". the reason i'm sure they are brown-facing is bcs rob describes indians as tanned people🤡🤡🤡. I'm still in the process of finishing the book.

As much as I hate the series, reading them at my peek teenage depression era made it my guilty pleasure. I hate that I like reading a book that had actual plot, eventually become a shell of fan service that is not even historically accurate as the author wants to make it to be.

Yours truly,

An avid Hater and lover of storm and silence painfully trying to finish reading it to get some closure :)

Hi people! Been awhile, gimmie updates who died

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Storm and Silence aesthetic, book one

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One thing I'll never get over is how Storm & Silence could've easily been so much better if Rob Their(the author) wasn't afraid to actually write a compelling story.

Don't get me wrong, I adore the whole concept of '19 year old Victorian girl dresses up as a man to get a job'. But it's just so poorly written that I think about all the ways the story could be better when I'm in the bus going home from college.

I mean, that's how it is with books, they will be criticized no matter how good or how bad it may be. But then again, this is a Wattpad book. You can never expect too much from a Wattpad book. Every character feels very two dimensional after the first book that every other book after that is just plain fan-service.

The first book is genuinely good, except for the hyper feminist way Lilly is written to be. The author doesn't even bother to add conflict between any of the characters. The ONLY conflict that we ever get is Lilly arguing with Rikkard how she's capable of anything even if she's a women in every single book. It keeps going on and on like this that it just gets boring.

And the way Lilly's intelligence is suppressed makes me mad too. Like in book 3, she literally deciphers a map to find the treasure, but god forbid she recognizes her fiancé's(whether she likes him or not) initials on the waste disposal file and connect the dots on how he and her previous guy(I forgot his name) might've just disappeared. That right there could've been a good conflict. She recognizes the initials, realizes what Rikkard might've done, get angry and argue about not wanting him to interfere with it, then having to find an escape from her next fiancé and choosing to go out of town with Rikkard against her will instead of telling him why bcs she doesn't want a new waste disposal file.

Not to be mean, but the author is a man. At the end of the day, the way female characters are written by men will never be realistic. I know there might be real people out there like Lilly, but the way her "inner feminist"(I hate when she kept saying 'mY iNneR FemIniSt iS prOtEstiNg' stfu) is written truly makes me want to pull my hair out. It will never be same as writing a story from a women's perspective when you already know what it's like. I'm not saying that men are incapable of understanding the female experience, I'm saying that it's stupid and annoying when a man pretends he does.

Also the lack of historical accuracy boils my blood. Rob claims to have done thorough research on every historical details yet somehow Lilly and Rikkard goes on top of the Statue of Liberty despite the story taking place around 1840 and the statue starting its construction in 1876.

SNS was the last and final original story I've read on Wattpad. I really wish I could go back and keep myself away from that app and read an actual book. But it's the only place I could go to when I lost my sanity. Let me know how you feel about the book. I know there's barely anyone in the fandom, but please tell me your perspective.

P.S. can someone tell me where Rob used the slur. I read about many people talking about it but I cannot remember or recognize where it is.