I can usually abide by most manipulative and borderline abusive MLs. But this ML I can't stand to read anymore and watch him get his HEA ending. This ML is an abusive cheater and forces the FL to enter into a extremely toxic relationship. I had hopes for the FL as she was spunky in the beginning, but soon fell victim to idot-damsel trope where she tries to justify the abuse around her as protecting her loved ones. FL even has a great relationship with ML2 who could have helped her thwart being involved with ML -- but that relationship was stumped upon hard. And despite the author's attempts the FL & ML have absolutely almost zero chemistry between them. Yes, they are intrigued by each other, but at the same time they despise each other and due to the MLs rank and power he is abusive in his interactions with the FL. There is NONE, ZERO, NADA, ZILCH, NO love between the two!! FL should have known he was a red flag when he kept killing her birds!!
(The art is pretty.)
I think Raven prefers abusive interactions and doesn't want anyone to care for him due to losses in his life. He believes he's cursed and it extends to those who get too close to him. Speculation: I think his bird half is extremely protective of Raven and probably only rouses when Raven is knocking at Death's door or in real mortal danger. Kinda like a split personality.
ML is the prime description of a manipulative, destructive, and crazy. I can't believe he thinks it's all right to flat out torment the woman he "loves" in order to reach his end goals. The majority of his deceptive practices against the FL would have been moot had he gone to her and said their first meeting, while argumentative, made him drawn to her and wanted to marry her. Instead this Crazy ML went about his proposal in the most threatening and manipulative way. ML thinks his cousin, the Crown Prince, is crazy he should definitely take a long look in the mirror. A very long look.
I applaud FL for her elaborate plan for running away. And being able to stay hidden for as long as she did against her battle with her crazy husband. I do wish that her miscarriage hadn't been real and she escaped not only for her peace of mind but to remove her child from their father's manipulative influence.
That poor happy family got all messed up once the ML set eyes upon them. He is scum!! SCUM!! SCUMMM!!
I got that off my chest!! Can't wait for season 3! (ง ° ل °)ง
Kaelus -- it's always the quiet beautiful ones that become the beast of the sheets. But I don't hear Hestia complaining too much.
Diana -- I think she has lost her divine healing powers because she no longer was using them as they were intended when she was gifted them. Her abilities were to help the poor and unfortunate people, but, it appears, leading up to her marriage and afterwards she only used them on the nobility. Hence why her powers diminished and then disappeared; she stopped helping those she prayed for the ability to help.
I'm unsure if I want to continue or not. I'm only a few chapters in and I really don't like the MC. The MC is angry and rude for no reason -- the things that happened to him before aren't happening to him now. I don't mind him being realistic or harden, but his nasty attitude isn't endearing. He's trying to save the girl, but he's so plain nasty going about it. Yes, the girl is way too optimistic for this zombie apocalypse, but she saved the MC's life first. Instead of calling her names, yelling at her, pushing her, and just being an all-around douche, he could have had sensible conversation with her about their new reality. And definitely used the thug incident to make the conversation stick -- but, nope, not our MC!! More yelling and douchebaggery. I think the only time I was on the MCs side, while reading was when he told the girl to put on clothes and she came back wearing a dress like there wasn't a bunch of zombies loitering around outside. ಠ╭╮ಠ ◔◔