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A review by tired_cicada
Cruel Illusions by Margie Fuston
Did not finish book. Stopped at 75%.
I could not force myself to care anymore. The main character is so "woe is me" no matter how many good things happen to her. This book fell victim to "bella swan" syndrome where the main character was written so that people could project onto her while she was surrounded by a cast of characters who were each SO MUCH more interesting than she was. Literally why were we following her story and not ANYONE ELSES?!?!
The love triangle was so forced it was actually painful, particularly when one of the "love interests" would have an INFINITY more palatable more interesting character as an over protective brother figure. also, you read that man's discription and tell me that isn't a raging homosexual!! You took a perfectly good green haired, colored pants, vest wearing gay man and turned him into a dude bro?!?!?! Unforgivable!!!
Also, the MC is 17 and both of the love interests are in their mid 30's BUT THEY LOOK 18 BECASUE OF MAGIC SO ITS OKAY ACTUALLY 🤮
Finally every single plot twist was so obvious that I was actually offended they were drug out so long. I maybe could have forgiven that if the payoff for even one of the reveals was satisfying but literally not a single one of them was.
The love triangle was so forced it was actually painful, particularly when one of the "love interests" would have an INFINITY more palatable more interesting character as an over protective brother figure. also, you read that man's discription and tell me that isn't a raging homosexual!! You took a perfectly good green haired, colored pants, vest wearing gay man and turned him into a dude bro?!?!?! Unforgivable!!!
Also, the MC is 17 and both of the love interests are in their mid 30's BUT THEY LOOK 18 BECASUE OF MAGIC SO ITS OKAY ACTUALLY 🤮
Finally every single plot twist was so obvious that I was actually offended they were drug out so long. I maybe could have forgiven that if the payoff for even one of the reveals was satisfying but literally not a single one of them was.