Hopefully we get a new character that's not a forced Polly like the rest, so far all we have is Hazel 🙄 Yet her whole story pretty much get's swallowed by Milo/Mal too so...? Guess that leaves Pen who barely has any scenes, wonder how long until they're forced into some kind of poly dynamic too.
The Author originally claimed you could romance Milo solo, then after releasing it and people began to realise that *wasn't* true and the story was clearly setting up a poly route she then backtracked and added a disclaimer *after* people already bought it. Now it's gone even further and she's making Mal/Milo a locked Poly that stay together no matter what, which just confirms the fact so may fans have been saying, that they're "meant to be together" while you, the MC are... just not as important to them.
This is proven by the fact that unless you forgive Milo for murdering and betraying you... then you're locked out of Mal's route too, because he will choose to stay with Milo over you, he will defend Milo over you, and since there's no platonic route and Pen's romance hasn't been written then there's literally nothing you can do.
Seems like the author wanted to write a book, but changed it into an IF at the last minute and added a self insert with barely any agency. It's not a story about MC, it's a story about two couples and we just happen to be there to watch the drama.
I don't care if this sounds harsh, Actually I hope it does considering the way people are treated for showing the *slightest* bit of criticism. I've seen people who *paid* for the story try to give valid points and make detailed reviews and yet what did the author do...? run to Tumblr and complain about the reviews, then make condescending statements on her Patreon about fans who bring this up, and if that wasn't enough her other fans will just do the same and dogpile you into leaving.
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I do think this comes off a little harsh, but in general I agree.
I would like to see more content with Pen soon, as much as I like Hazel I'm not interested in her romance so Pen seems the only other option for me, I think the author said something about twelve chapters? I could be wrong, but if that's true and there's been no real development with Pen so far then that's almost two books worth of content for the others and almost none for Pen, so his romance may feel a lot less focused on compared to the others :/
I'm really sorry that you feel this way. At this point, I would suggest that maybe I'm not the right writer for you. This is a wip and so I don't really have real concrete answers I can give anyone on the way of routes because I don't actually know what I'm going to be doing. And when I did try to address all the 'complaints' it ended up derailing the story to the point where I wasn't writing anymore because of so many code breaks. So, I'm just going to write the story I want to write. That might not fall in line with what you want to read so no hard feelings. This is not me getting mad about criticism or being condescending, I am just not going to physically be able to address all the different things that people want. Maybe the next story I write will be different with a new set of characters?
Also, people do need to understand, that just as many people who want these mono routes, want poly routes. I can't do both. I am one person. This is a side job for me to support buying groceries for my kids. Maybe if I was someone who had her life to dedicate to this, but I am not.
The IF community is dominated by works that have mono routes. I understand it is disappointing that mine does not cater to that and frankly, what a nice compliment to endure since people want to read it that bad. But, if I cannot provide what you are looking for, there are wonderful authors out there that will.