beta
Some ppl are super defensive about this story and believe every critic is "vanilla" or a child, but the writing isn't even that good. I've read fanfic that had much better exploration of trauma through sex idk why this is the standard but the bar is in hell. It's an okay and entertaining enough story, I can see what it's trying to do, but it is inconsistent and leads the plot in certain arcs only to unsatisfyingly change its direction/aim/mood. If this is your standard for a bdsm story then that feels sad to me, cz bdsm is treated like nothing more than bad and scary sex in this by both the mc and ml it feels a little repetitive. I read to see if there's character development but it's a bit slow, so I'll probably drop now.