According to user @ag.jjtj "After a meeting when he forced himself on Hestia without preparing her at all and she screamed at him to stop, saying it was so incredibly painful she felt like she was being torn apart. That ruined him for me. So selfish and fucked up. Relationship or not, that’s rape. Romanticized, but rape regardless. Whole novel is just male gaze purity culture, where Hestia is acting like sex isn’t mutual but she’s serving him and sacrificing herself for it. She doesn’t talk like it’s a mutually enjoyable thing. Personally, I don’t tolerate romanticized SA or unclear consent, as well as making women seem like they can’t enjoy sex. They always gotta be shy and refuse it but secretly “enjoy it”. Purity culture at its peak. Bad smut writing, disappointing that a woman wrote smth like that. It’s so male gaze."
I read that Kael acted kinda harsh in $3x in novel I'M GLAD THAT IT'S DIFFERENT!!!!