To claim that his family's deterioration is his "fault" is incredibly unfair and emotionally dishonest. He was traumatized and never received the support he needed to recover from that. Moreover, a family isn't defined by a single member's actions. All four of them had a role to play in the...
Is she finally going to become a real character with her own interests and opinions or is she just going to use her newfound voice to fawn over him all of the time?
A wall that high is going to mess with their farming in several ways, particularly by limiting the amount of sunlight their crops receive.
More importantly, the single opening in the front will channel water into the village at higher velocities and leave them no means of escape. Everyone could...
Is any culture as obsessed with meat as Japan? Which isn't the same as asking if any country eats more meat per person. (Not counting sea life consumption, Japan barely even makes into the top 100 most meat-consuming societies.) But in terms of Japanese cultural output, I don't think a love of...
I think I said this with the previous installment, but I'm impressed that this is now really leaning into the idea that they're evil. They aren't simply misunderstood, although they might be that also. They're genuinely and unambiguously evil.
This is a bit too bleak for me, so I don't really...
I can't say I expected a reference to the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. It happened before many of the people reading this were even alive, let alone old enough to remember it.
For a story with so many chapters, it still feels like this plot barely got going. It dragged for so long that the story only progressed about half as far as it probably could have in that many pages.