I have my thoughts about the endings for Those Who Wait and Midnight Rain by Haley Cass
Hi I just literally finished every book from Those Who Wait. I read some of the posts about it and I know I have a slightly hot take about how I still prefer the TWW ending over MR.
While reading, I LOVED Midnight Rain so much. The angst was SCRUMPTIOUS. The role dynamics reversed was so refreshing, especially with Sutton being the one to hold the brakes on their relationship. I loved how MR Charlotte has turned out, the pining and yearning she had was undeniable.
BUT knowing how their life had become with reading TWW and FaaD? I just have that sense of sadness. They had two daughters, Charlotte has missed the journey of Sutton’s pregnancy, and moments of her life of being a parent to a newborn. And one of the things I LOVED about Charlotte was her ambition. Her whole character revolved about her knowing at such a young age and never stopping to get that ever since. Being the president like her grandmother was her only dream. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely understand MR Charlotte’s reasonings of not wanting to run anymore, and maybe the way Haley Cass wrote it was to really tie up this whole book’s premise that this was just an alternate universe of a what-if scenario. The MR ending was good, but it was also why it held me back from making it my top fave among the series.
I know TWW/FaaD is the canon one, but being MR the last one I read just left me in a melancholic mood.
(PS I love Regan and Charlotte’s dynamic in The Snowball Effect so thinking about Midnight Rain and that it never happened has been a bummer of some sort too)
I just want some conversations about this bc my girlfriend is still on TWW and I have lots of emotions after finishing the epilogue. Love to her some of your contrasting insights also!