'I Don't Like You'
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'I Don’t Like You.'
It's really hard for me to keep reading a story once I have thought that about a character.
So there's this story I started reading. I liked the female lead at first. She was cool. Seventeen, a little immature, but generous, naive, compassionate, hard working, likeable, even if she was a dash cliche. The writer wrote a lot of sweet scene surrounding her and I LIKED her. I was rooting for her. And the male lead.
But then.
She(the writer)did one of the many things I simply cannot ing stand. She had the character change overnight. Literally. She was a different person after a 'traumatic' event. The girl became rude, loud, disrespectful to ELDERS(IN ASIA!), indecisive, immature, violent, unreasonable, selfish and plain ing nasty. For real, I had to go back and make sure I hadn't missed a few chapters. Her character devolved so quickly that I . . . . I just can't.
Characters are supposed to have flaws. The quirks in their behavior that make them 'real' and relatable to the readers. This is true. I will always champion this. But what this writer did was too abrupt. There was no development. I mean, she then explained herself in an author's note, but she shouldn't have had to. She should have built the explanation into a scene. Adding it as an afterthou
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