#mb hate reads

[separatist-apologist]

I always want to hear your unsolicited hater thoughts thought 👀🤡

Okay so here are my hater thoughts on King of Wrath. Please just scroll along if you liked this book, I am only speaking for myself.

First of all, when I bought this book, I knew better because I did not like the Twisted series by Ana Huang. I read three of them and quit 3/4ths of the way through with the book with the red head when [spoiler alert] the shitty romantic lead sexually assaulted the FMC for thin plot reasons I no longer care to remember.

But I am SUCH a sucker for an arranged marriage (as we all know), and I was in Kansas City in this three story Barnes and Noble and riding that Taylor Swift high that I let it cloud my better judgement.

My issues:

Dante is literally just two popular tropes in a trench coat. Dark haired and rich are his entirely personality. If you want to be charitable, you could tack on implausibly, compulsively violent. I'm sorry, but Dante is a BILLIONAIRE who was BORN into his wealth (strike one, but I'll let it go for the purposes of romance), in what world is he ACTUALLY killing people?? Be SO serious. This author wanted to give him an air of danger- baby just tell us what he pays his lowest skilled worker! You want me to believe this man is killing his enemies? LMAO I laughed out loud several times when Dante was making his threats.

Vivian is also personality-less. Oh, sure, she WANTS to have a personality but Huang absolutely REFUSES to do any showing. It's all telling. So I'm told Vivian is this badass working girl (not-like-other-girls because unlike all those OTHER heiresses, she WORKS god shut the fuck up- she spent 100k very casually in the course of a day, so like....which is it baby?) making her own way but then Dante shows up acting like the worlds biggest piece of shit and she's like, okay I guess I'll move in with you.

And I know someone is going to come in and say it was the cultural pressure that dragged her into this and I really wanted more of that. It gets touched on but like, so carefully like Huang was too afraid to really commit to her plot. Vivian is Asian-American, and we really dance around what that meant to her. There is a moment right at the end where her mother is discussing why their wealth will NEVER be enough for some people and I was like, oh finally here we go- but the mom is like, you know why. And Vivian is like, yeah, I know why. And that's the end of that! And of course, Dante is never asked to respect any of the cultural differences present, nor does he (threatening to take her dad down AGAIN was just like...oh so you learned NOTHING okay cool).

I think asking readers to believe a modern day arranged marriage was always going to be a tough sell and I wish Huang had really committed to it. She really doesn't, though- Dante is an asshole right up until the very end and one of the things I hate about Huangs MMC's is that they NEVER truly atone for their bad behavior. One of her MMC's stalks the love interest until she breaks down and then Dante is just like, "I miss you" "But I'm still threatening your dad" and Vivian folds like cardboard and ultimately, Dante got everything he wanted and only ever had to treat her well just long enough to get her down the aisle.

The closest this book every came to being self aware is when Vivian is like, we're bad for each other YEAH I AGREE. Like no chemistry AT ALL, the author really relies on Dante being hot (which we're told no less than 8 times a chapter) to do her heavy lifting. The smut is just mid, in my opinion- its not the worst thing, not the best thing, it just is.

Ultimately, Vivian and Dante have no personalities that we aren't told about, even if they directly contradict what we do see. This feels like a book written specifically to market the tropes/whats popular on booktok and so of course it's not good. It's got a few good lines I'll bet she used to market it, but everything in between reads like a first draft.

Would I recommend this? No. If you want to read it, should you? Sure. It's not going to harm you, I think you'll be like me and close it like, "well. thats done". Counts toward my reading goal.

[zuiz41]

Happy Birthday to Our Dearest Setter! <3

He's 30** this year, can y'all believe that?

[coquelicoq]

gurathin, thiago, indah...starting to get the sense that if murderbot didn't have any specific person playing the role of "someone i deep down respect who i'm convinced hates me" at any given time, presaux would have to assign someone, for enrichment purposes

[paging-possum]

3.5 hours of sleep does crazy things to ones brain and by that I mean. Murderbot gender thoughts

[amaraudermind]

Has anyone considered the hilarity of a reverse robins au wherein a young Steph hits the streets as spoiler wanting to kill her dad. And then, years later, a certain young boy keeps sneaking out intent on killing his parents' murderer.

I think rr Steph should call him her mini me just for that alone

[tinukis]

what if i drew the vinsmoke siblings (including sanji) inspired by the song "afton family" what then?

an animatic could work too however i dont have the energy for that 😔

[nyxypoo]

thinking about when the time when me when he when uhm when HANDS FACKKKKK

[pixel-axel]

one last thing about the inheritance games for now, and i’m not gonna tag this with the inheritance games tag cause i feel like people are gonna get mad at me. but i just scrolled through the tag and like. why is everyone talking about the romance. why. why is everyone talking about grayson and jameson and avery. and which team they’re on. and how much they want grayson and/or jameson to be their boyfriend. why is no one talking about the actual plot of the book. or the characters beyond the romances. why isn’t there actual discussion of the book besides romance. in this essay i will

[lioriel]

Day Eleven: Fairy Godmother

[sophieswundergarten]

Um, putting this here just because it's been weighing on my mind and I need to do something to feel productive since the show is being pulled :(

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

oh my GOD i just finished network effect. what if i cried.

[alyona11]

Reading Twitter gow Ragnarök tag was a mistake

[planet4546b]

love so much how in artificial condition as soon as murderbot gets on board art just says. oh im gonna peel this little idiot like a grape

[the-passer-outer]

yall does anybody else in the td community just have absolutely insane td ocs? like hang on im going to list things theyve done under a read more (btw there has to be a few light tws for this dawg)

i might as well start with Gen... Gen has...: Given at least 1 or more contestants ptsd Forced another contestants to give parts of his body away to keep those he loves safe Gaslight people into trusting them Put her best friend into a robot Ruined several relationships Used her manipulation skills to bring out the worst in fellow contestants (sorry [REDACTED])

hey im realizing that im not sure if there IS an end to what shes done... erm... looks to her and her connections to daybreak (yucky women!)

okay wait i can list some stuff from another [REDACTED] has...: attempted to kill another contestant (finally not an oc contestant) betrayed his closest friends and threw them under the bus reset after reset helped start the cycle that is Total Drama Corruption: Reunited (personal hell btw) worked alongside Gen (no longer does and is recovering) obsessed over 2 contestants to a disturbing amount (also not oc contestants.. sorry justin and trent...) so happy hes recovering tho! also id mention more of characters like daybreak and explain why shes yucky but she isnt extremely total drama related as an oc (although she seems to have a important role to the story?) anyways thanks for reading this insanity if u did :3

[tiptoelightlypastmymind]

some people have so much rain rot from capitalism that it's terminal i s2g. reading a discussion about a guy charging money for a mod list - a mod list! dude didn't even make any of the free mods on the list he just picked and chose which ones which again are all free for download to include - and people are justifying it by saying "if you're going to squeeze money out of people may as well provide something in return."

idk here's a radical take: maybe we shouldn't be fucking squeezing people for money, especially if the thing we're using to get that money is free content that we didn't make ourselves that we're paywalling because we're an asshole