It's mentioned they don't have the same father and mother. Juliet's mother is the prime minister's second wife. His first wife was already pregnant for the knight when had to marry the prime minister and she died shortly giving birth to him.
How is it incest if they're not blood related?
when you've treated a person as your sibling your whole life, it doesn't magically change in an instant. it's incest cause they've been brought up that way and what's worst is that it's been like this through both of their formative years. you don't need to be related by blood to be family.
@uin (little bitch ass dumbass coward blocked me out of embarrassment I assume.)
They've literally barely met ever in their life. They grew up apart and he knew nothing about her. It's not like they were even remotely close as children nor as young adults. They're basically strangers without blood relation. If you doubted how deep their love can be for happening so fast I'd understand. But getting your panties twisted over simply calling each other brother and sister is weird. They didn't even treat each other as siblings until recently.
Nah ik, just always think step-siblings tropes in general are weird as shit but defo more gross shit in the novel than this haha. It was just a jumpscare since I didnt remember reading about it.
While i agree with your last comment, even hoped that they remain siblings in this story i have to say that they never really see each other as siblings anyway. Sigurd distanced himself and see juliette and her father as strangers maybe and from the 'my father dotes on her and ignored me' sentence from him we can assume they're not raised together.
I must've blocked out this sibling incest cause I don't remember this in the novel