i feel like im going crazy but i just finished reading incl the side stories and i just feel like it was an alright story. the plot was interesting but i just feel like it had the potential to be more fleshed out with the characters and some of the plot points. in particular i think the part where the little shadow guard guy went on his secret mission or whatever was just so poorly? written bc we see him go “betray” the emperor but the next time we see him he is just shown being like “oh yea i was never betraying him in the first place” or something like that idk at some point i was just like where did he go but he suddenly just appeared to be a helping side character idk i think it just could have been more interesting or something. i also think this is a personal preference but i wish the emperor’s romantic interest was more slow instead of it being so fast in him determining that the mc was the love of his life sorry i think the overall pacing was ok but as a romance it felt a bit offputting. im just ranting cause i was kinda disappointed given this was a 9.5 and all the comments loving it but in my own opinion it was just okay
i feel like im going crazy but i just finished reading incl the side stories and i just feel like it was an alright story. the plot was interesting but i just feel like it had the potential to be more fleshed out with the characters and some of the plot points. in particular i think the part where the little shadow guard guy went on his secret mission or whatever was just so poorly? written bc we see him go “betray” the emperor but the next time we see him he is just shown being like “oh yea i was never betraying him in the first place” or something like that idk at some point i was just like where did he go but he suddenly just appeared to be a helping side character idk i think it just could have been more interesting or something. i also think this is a personal preference but i wish the emperor’s romantic interest was more slow instead of it being so fast in him determining that the mc was the love of his life sorry i think the overall pacing was ok but as a romance it felt a bit offputting. im just ranting cause i was kinda disappointed given this was a 9.5 and all the comments loving it but in my own opinion it was just okay