u/BrilliantPatience0

I'm around 70% through this book and I am EXHAUSTED.

I feel like i am missing something, because this book is raved about all over tiktok, and is rated really highly.

I've hated every minute.

Here's some reasons why:

- we had chapters upon chapters of pointless stuff. Watching them as teenagers play with dolls. Watching them bond with a rabbit. Them moonwatching at night. But when something actually happened such as >!her saying what happened to her when she was locked in the cage, losing her baby, Hell coming back and not leaving for Woodrow to help her!< it was just told to us and not shown. Literally something so huge, and we got two sentences.

So much of this book is shown and not told. >!Nessie was a lovely character and so prominent in the pointless flashback chapters. And yet her fate was given to us in a single sentence after building it up for ages.!<

And then the errors. I appreciate its an indie book and editing is expensive. But I'm also aware this book has made a lot of money and has been contracted to BlueNose Audio, so the sheer amount of errors is completely unacceptable. There were full stops used in place of commas, so entire sentences didn't make sense. There were spelling errors, formatting errors, even plot holes.

I also genuinely felt uncomfortable with their ages in the flashbacks. Woodrow was 17. I do not need indepth sex scenes. I appreciate that he was co-erced under his Hell alter. But there were so many scenes of him as Woodrow having sex and it made me wildly uncomfortable. This story would have worked the exact same aging both Jolie and Woodrow up. Especially as >!the traffickers already confirmed they kidnapped older women!<

All in all, I feel like tiktok really did me dirty with this one. I am going to finish the last 30% because DNFing makes me miserable but I'm skimming at best

Anyone else read this? Even if you enjoyed it, let me know, it would be interesting to see how others interpreted it.

Hi

I reported my rent increase and received a message asking me to confirm the relationship with who i pay my rent to.

The landlord is someone I don't know. The estate agent is my partners auntie. When we went onto UC in 2020, we were told to answer "no" to close relative. It was people in the job center who said aunties don't count as close relatives. This would be parents, siblings... they then asked to see my full rental agreement, which is fine, I sent that over. Then I received another journal message to say it had been sent to a decision maker about it being a contrived tenancy.

So I sent a final message saying this isnt a contrived tenancy because I lived here since 2012 and paid rent for 8 years before going onto UC. My landlord would push for me to be evicted if I didn't pay. The rent is in line with others on the street (the landlord actually owns 11 out 20 houses in this cul-de-sac and uses my partners aunties estate agent for them all). The only difference is, we didnt pay a bond when we moved in. The auntie waved the bond fee as when we moved in we couldn't afford all the upfront fees. The property was rented before us, and we have 14 years of paying the rent every month on time.

Does this sound like it would be okay? As I'm a bit worried now

ETA: I spoke to the aunt, and she said she's happy to show bank statements if needed showing she gets my rent into the business bank account and then her transferring it from the business bank account to the landlord. I don't know if I'd need that, or if it would even help, but I've got that in case the decision maker isn't happy