Judging by the title of this post, I'm pretty sure you know what I'm going to write about today.
So, last night at around 11.30 pm, I got in bed with a book in my hand, at the same time feeling excited to finally be able to venture into another, fictional world. I snuggled up in my blanket and made myself comfortable by resting my back against two pillows before finally opening the book to read it. Little did I know what was in stored for me.
You know that feeling when, after a few pages of reading, you know that something's wrong and that in no time, you'd want to throw that book across the room to vent your frustrations? That was exactly how I felt when I was only a few pages in. However, even though I felt that way, I couldn't not finish it because 1) it was a present from my cousins and 2) I was curious okay? So I kept on reading, hoping that the plot would somehow get better as the book progressed.
BOY WAS I WRONG. JUST THINKING ABOUT IT PISSES ME OFF. ( And if my cousins happen to come across this post for whatever reasons, I'm sorry that you guys wasted your hard-earned money on this shitty book, nay, it doesn't even deserve to be called a "book" ) NOT ONLY DID THE PLOT NOT GET BETTER, BUT THE WRITING WAS A MESS AND THE ENDING WAS A BLOODY OPEN, SHITTY ENDING.
But wait, how are you supposed to relate to my feelings when you don't even know how shitty this book is? When you haven't spent 5 hours reading it, losing sleep and having nightmares because of it? Well, let me tell you ALL ABOUT IT. Be prepared, there's going to be a LOT of profanity and caps locks in the next couple of paragraphs.
Let's start with what made me feel put-off yeah? What made me think that this "book" was going to be a horrible one within the first few pages of reading it was the pacing. It was too fast. Everything seemed to happen so quickly, leaving me, the reader, no time to process what had just happened. The characters in the book were thrown together so hastily within a short time period that it made me want to scream: " STOP, JUST STOP!". If you don't understand what I'm trying to say, well, allow me to dive into the plot of this "book" in order to make you understand.
This book starts with a "guy" getting chased by the male mc, whose job is to catch monsters. Turns out, this "guy" is actually a monster who's trying to escape from the clutches of the great monster reaper. As expected, he was caught by the male mc despite his pleas to be freed so that he can be with his gf. As he was being dragged by the mc, the "guy" then curses him by saying that one day he will experience the pain of falling in love with a human girl who wouldn't love him back. Upon hearing this, the mc didn't give a damn, and proceeded to lock the "guy" up in a cage, transforming him back to his true form- he is a monster after all.
YOU WOULD"VE THOUGHT THAT THIS "GUY" WOULD PLAY A BIG PART IN THE PLOT LATER ON BUT NO. What's the whole point of this prologue if it's so INSIGNIFICANT AND IRRELEVANT TO THE PROGRESS OF THE PLOTTTTT???!!!!!!!
/sighs/ Moving on to the actual start of the story. The story starts with the female mc going into this "pet shop" that's owned by- you guessed it- the male mc. Female mc spots a cute puppy with snow-white fur quivering in its cage, and whilst inspecting it up close, out comes the male mc. Skimming through their convo, the female mc ends up keeping the puppy for a month after the male mc threatened to cook the puppy if she didn't keep it. He also asked her to join her as his monster-catching helper, but was rejected. After that, female mc goes home, only to be greeted by the sight of a ghost on her balcony. The ghost asks her:" Can you see me? Can you hear me?" in a cheerful tone. Female mc - clearly frightened - chases him away and says that he's not welcomed in her home. Skimming through some parts, the ghost goes away, feeling dejected.
- Bloody hell, do you get it now? Girl meets male mc, then IMMEDIATELY meets male side char ON THE SAME DAY. Okay, i have to confess that there's a reasonable explanation to this later on BUT LIKE, CAN YOU GIVE ME TIME TO BREATHE FIRST BEFORE SHOVING ALL OF THESE CHARS DOWN MY THROAT?
Female mc goes to school the next day, not knowing that the puppy was in her bag all along. During history class, her friend - female side char - starts to talk to her about the puppy that was sleeping in the female mc's desk drawer. She could sense that the puppy wasn't an ordinary puppy and warns the female mc to stay away from the pet shop. The female mc responds by assuring her that she'll be fine. Then, when school had ended, she goes to the pet shop to ask the male mc to revert the puppy back to its original, human-like form. The male mc refuses, much to her anger, and she vows to do it herself once she finds a way. After that, she goes back home, only to find the same ghost from before squatting in front of her door. She ignores him and enters her home, with him locked outside. The reason he couldn't enter was because of the wards she placed on her door as well as other parts of her home. Few minutes later, the ghost gets dragged away by the "ghoul king", thus making the female mc feel guilty for not letting him in.
Skipping A LOT OF PARTS here ( since I don't want to remember everything anyway ), ghost returns, gets to live with female mc, constantly says he's hungry and asks to be fed. Female mc encounters a crying girl in her school who happens to be the gf of the "guy" in the prologue. She tells the girl that it's pathetic of her to be crying over a guy and advises her on ways to find him ( she told the female mc that her bf was missing ). Blah blah blah, girl asks female mc to save her bf since she's tried everything she recommended only to have made no progress, female mc is annoyed but eventually accepts her request, goes to the pet shop, "guy" runs out in his human-like form and bumps into her, begs her to save him, BLAH BLAH BLAH. In the end, in exchange for his freedom, she agrees to become the male mc's monster-catching helper for 3 years.
BLAH BLAH BLAH, "guy" is freed, reunited with gf, we're introduced to the male side char who obviously has a crush on the female mc and is the prefect of the school. Turns out, he's the female mc's saviour when she was trapped in the corner of her home whilst watching her parents get eaten by a pair of evil spirits. After carrying her out of that hellhole, he does everything for her ( I'm too lazy to elaborate on this tbh ). He warns her to not go to that pet shop, blah blah blah ( I really can't remember much ).
So, the first task she has to do after becoming the male mc's monster-catching helper is to inspect the dead flowers in her school. Apparently they didn't die naturally but by supernatural means. When she was inspecting the flowerbed, the new guy at her school - who happens to be a celebrity - stands next to her, all the while murmuring a girl/guy(?)'s name. Female mc goes away, reports her findings to the male mc, blah blah blah, male mc tells her that he knows she's keeping a ghost in her house and asks her if she would believe him if he told her that the ghost was indeed him. Female mc doesn't believe him as he and the ghost have 2 separate personalities EVEN THOUGH THEY LOOK ALIKE EXCEPT FOR THE COLOUR OF THEIR HAIR. ( MALE MC'S IS BLACK, GHOST'S IS BLONDE ) LIKE, HOW DENSE DO YOU HAVE TO BE TO NOT NOTICE THAT!? EVEN IDENTICAL TWINS LOOK DIFFERENT IF YOU TAKE A CLOSER LOOK. Take Jack Harries and Finn Harries for example.
After female mc leaves, male mc's helper comes out and warns him that he's repeating the same mistake he made 400 years ago. Skipping lots of parts, ghost, puppy and female mc live together in utter bliss, female mc is made to complete her first task in school at night without the male char - as he's asleep /coughs/ important thing to note here /coughs/ -, encounters an evil spirit who tries to shoot her, is blocked by the ghost, ghost gets hurt, female mc gets pissed, wants to kill the evil spirit, ghost tells her not to as the evil spirit is being used by someone else to attack her, so female mc decides to purify the evil spirit, blah blah blah, evil spirit is purified, whispers something into the ghost's ear before it disappears. Ghost wouldn't tell female mc what it said.
I've forgotten a chunk of the plot after this, my apologies. So one day, during her school's carnival, the celebrity approaches her and asks her to free his gf who is trapped inside a mirror and is a monster without a gender. He claims that the monster told him it would choose to become a girl and stay by his side if he manages to free it. Remember when I said the female mc was attacked by an evil spirit earlier on? Yeah I forgot to mention that it has something to do with the celebrity's gf and the mirror she/he's stuck in. The ghost knows where the mirror is but refuses to tell the female mc where it is. Okay, now that that's settled, let's continue. Suddenly, the "guy" from the prologue breaks their convo and begs the female mc to save his gf who'strapped in one of the mirrors in the "mirror room" - one of the attractions of their carnival. So, female mc, ghost boy, celebrity and "guy" run to the mirror room, which is basically 4 mirrors arranged in a square in a dark room.
Apparently if you stare into one of the mirrors, you will be able to see either the thing you fear the most, or your past(?) ( I forgot, heh ). "Guy" sees his gf dying a painful, gruesome death, ghost boy sees his past self lying on a bed of snow aaaaaaaand the celebrity's gf appears in the mirror. Let's call it M. The female mc orders "guy" to take the fainted celebrity out of the room - as to why he's fainted, I can't remember - and ghost boy is sucked into a black hole ( IMPORTANT THING TO NOTE ) Just then, the mirrors to begin to shatter and M uses the glass pieces to attack the female mc. Female mc uses her powers to defend herself but is barely hanging in there when male mc arrives to rescue her. Upon his arrival, M stops attacking the female mc as it is scared of the great monster catcher. Blah blah blah, the trapped gf of "guy" gets released and M disappears in fear. Female mc suspects that ghost boy's disappearance might have something to do with male mc and goes to find him to get an explanation out of him. Male mc says something along the lines of " I AM ghost boy " but of course, our precious mc doesn't get the memo.
-This is getting too tiring, I've wasted an hour and a half just to write all of the above. I better end this soon. I haven't even started my rant.
Skipping to the female mc and male mc going into a forest to hunt a gigantic flying bird-monster. Female mc wonders why male mc bothers asking her for help when she's powerless against powerful monsters. After the bird is presumed to be frozen by the male mc's powers, he waits for the female mc to put it in the cage so he can bring it back to the land of monsters. Unfortunately, the bird-monster becomes un-frozen and attacks the female mc, successfully hurting her. The male mc, enraged by what had happened, attacks the bird and send it into a painful death by tormenting it with its own fireballs. Once it's dead, the male mc walks over to the female mc and heals her. Female mc is surprised by his actions, but is about to be even more surprised when he pulls her in for a kiss. Blah blah blah, the next day, the prefect pulls her into a room, confesses his love for her and kisses her with his hand on her eyes the entire time. Before she's able to say anything, he'd already left the room. Later that night, ghost boy kisses her out of jealousy because he'd witnessed the entire scene through M. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that M is living with the female mc because it begged her to help free it and she accepted its request only because she promised mr hotshot celebrity that she would bring it back to him.
Okay, THIS IS BLOODY RIDICULOUS. 3 KISSES AND 3 CONFESSIONS IN THE SPAN OF A FEW PAGES. WTF IS THIS. WHAT. THE. FUDGE.
Can we skip to the end? Let's skip to the end. I feel like I've wasted enough time on this post.
Whilst searching for ghost boy in the streets at night, female mc is attacked by her "friend" from before ( the one who talked to her about the puppy ) and turns out, SHE WAS THE ONE WHO TRIED TO KILL THE FEMALE MC WHEN SHE WAS AN INFANT BECAUSE SHE WAS JEALOUS OF HER ( more on that later ). AND JUST LIKE THAT, THE "WHO IS THIS POWERFUL KILLER WHO WANTS TO KILL THE FEMALE MC ARC" IS RESOLVED. IN A FEW SENTENCES. DO YOU KNOW HOW CHEAP THAT IS? THE AUTHOR MADE IT SEEM LIKE A BIG THING BUT TURNS OUT, THE ONLY REASON SHE WAS ALMOST-KILLED BY THIS SUPPOSEDLY HIGHLY SKILLED YIN YANG MASTER WAS BECAUSE SAID YIN YANG MASTER WAS JEALOUS OF HER STEALING HER SPOTLIGHT!!!!! Not because she could foil her evil plan with her powers or because she's the one who will destroy the realm of the monsters, but because SHE GETS ALL THE BLOODY ATTENTION. GAHHH THIS IS TOO PETTY OF A REASON TO KILL SOMEONE!!!!!
ANYWAY, after a near-death experience which involves a mermaid ( 2 near-death experiences in a row, what fun ), male mc - who saved her btw - asks to be repaid. All he needs is for his questions to be answered. 1) will she hate him if he gets rid of ghost boy and 2) will she ever love him. Female mc answers "yes" to the first question and "no" to the second one. Male mc is visibly hurt by her words but doesn't say anything. Few days later, "ghoul king" - who's the male mc's helper from before - comes to collect ghost boy. Female mc demands to know the reason behind it but he coldly tells her to ask the male mc for it if she's that curious. They leave. So, female mc decides to personally go to the pet shop and ask the male mc herself.
As if expecting her arrival, she meets him and he tells her that he will show her what he means by " I am ghost boy ". He leads her into his bedroom and proceeds to sleep. Slowly, his body becomes translucent, and he's turned into ghost boy. After seeing the transformation firsthand, female mc is shocked. Turns out that ghost boy is what the male mc used to be like before he was betrayed by his gf 400 yrs ago and was banished to the human realm by the new king of the monsters after he got his throne stolen from him. Anyway, female mc and ghost boy embrace each other AND SHE CONFESSES HER FEELINGS FOR HIM. WTF. SHE TELLS HIM THAT SHE WILL LOVE HIM AND ONLY HIM ( MALE MC CAN SEE AND HEAR EVERYTHING GHOST BOY SEES AND HEARS ).
Male mc decides that he will get rid of ghost boy because he shouldn't have existed in the first place. Female mc is pissed but admits that no one would like to become a ghost every time they slept. However, she can't seem to not be pissed. So, when ghost boy stops coming to her house for about half a month, she knows that he's gone. ( OR DOES SHE ) She refuses to meet with the male mc as she's pissed at him for getting rid of ghost boy.
- Here's where I rant. OMG WTF IS THIS SHIT. WHAT IS THIS. YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT EVEN IF GHOST BOY WASN'T THE MALE MC, A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN A HUMAN AND A GHOST IS IMPOSSIBLE. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE. WHATEVER THE TWO OF YOU HAVE WOULDN'T LAST, YOU KNOW WHY? BECAUSE HE IS A GHOST. YOU'D THINK AS A BLOODY HALF YIN YANG MASTER SHE'D KNOW THIS!!!! NEWSFLASH: HE'S DEAD. AND, MALE MC HAS TOLD YOU NUMEROUS TIMES THAT HE IS GHOST BOY BUT YOU BLATANTLY IGNORE HIS CLAIMS AND CONTINUE TO BE WITH GHOST BOY. GAHHHHHH THE LEVEL OF STUPIDITY IS SO HIGH THAT I CAN'T EVEN-
AS TO WHY GHOST BOY WOULD APPEAR BEFORE HER, YOU WILL GET IT LATER ON.
Let's move on shall we..
To summaries the final chapters: male mc returns to the realm of the monsters, M tells female mc that it's not safe for male mc to go there, female mc DECIDES TO GO TO THE REALM OF THE MONSTERS NOT BECAUSE OF MALE MC, NO, BUT BECAUSE OF GHOST BOY, WHO DOESN'T EXIST ANYMORE GAHHHH!!!! HOW MANY TIMES DOES HE HAVE TO TELL YOU THAT HE HAS GOTTEN RID OF GHOST BOY!?!?!?!?!? She meets the prince - aka the prefect who saved her when she was young - and is shocked. Blah blah blah, meets the male mc, male mc tells her once again that GHOST BOY IS DEAD, female mc ignores him. Meanwhile, female mc goes to the library to try and search for what happened 400 years ago. Obtains little bit of information. Blah blah blah. She meets the mermaid who tried to kill her and he offers her a proposition: he will get ghost boy back for her and get rid of male mc once and for all. She asks him what he would get in return. He replies by saying that he hates the male mc, so it's a fair deal. Female mc accepts his proposition.
Blah blah blah, after learning some new info, she confronts the prince, and he tells her that he was the one who killed the male mc's gf. He also tells her everything that transpired 400 years ago. On the contrary, the male mc's ex-gf didn't hate him, in fact she loved him so much that she wanted to give him his freedom by dethroning him and conspiring with the prefect to send him to the human realm where he would be free forever. What she didn't expect was for the prefect to betray her by confining the male mc for 100 years during his reign as prince. So, in order to give him the freedom he deserved, the male mc's ex-gf then conspired with evil spirits to attack the prefect, but ultimately failed doing so. As a result, the male mc's ex-gf vowed to gift her soul to the male mc by dying, and asks the mermaid whose arms she was dying in to tell the male mc to come back to the realm of the monsters when he doesn't hate her anymore. Plot twist: nearing the end of their war, the prefect fell in love with the male mc's ex-gf and tells the female mc that every time she's reborn, he would find her, protect her, tell her he loves her, only to get rejected by her over and over again because she falls in love with ghost boy every. single.time. You know where this is going right? BUT THE FEMALE MC DOES NOT BECAUSE SHE DOESN'T REALISE THAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT HER. ALL SHE DOES IS STARE AT HIM, CONFUSED.
HEY, YOU ARE THE GIRL HE'S TALKING ABOUT. YOU WERE THE ONE WHO STARTED ALL OF THIS. WAKE UP. YOU ARE THE REASON WHY GHOST BOY IS GHOST BOY BECAUSE YOU TURNED GHOST BOY INTO WHAT HE IS TODAY - A HEARTLESS, EMOTIONLESS, BROKEN-SPIRITED BOY. THE HAPPY, WARM, KIND GHOST BOY IS WHAT THE MALE MC USED TO BE AND YOU RUINED IT ALL BECAUSE YOU WANTED TO GIVE HIM YOUR SO-CALLED "FREEDOM".
Female mc and mermaid meet in the room where male mc is sleeping in so he could turn male mc into ghost boy forever. BUT TURNS OUT, IT WAS ALL A TRAP. I TOTALLY did NOT see that one coming. "You're so stupid" he tells the female mc, as he walks over to the sleeping male mc and prepares to kill him. Unfortunately for him, this was the female mc's trap, and the person sleeping on the bed isn't the male mc but her puppy. Blah blah blah ( I can't remember what happened ) male mc saves her whilst she blacked out and tells her that he killed the mermaid. He reminds her that she must accompany him to the human realm in a few days.
Okay, let's skip to the real end shall we?
Female mc and male mc get ambushed in the snowy forest. The wounded female mc decides it's best if they escape so she grabs the male mc's hand and runs. However, after running a short distance, the male mc decides it's better if he attacks them head-on - even though his powers have weakened - and lets go of the female mc's hand to run the opposite direction. The female mc didn't want him to sacrifice himself for her so she runs after him. Blah blah blah, the male mc meets the spirit of his ex-gf who tells him that she has loved him all along and begs for his forgiveness. The female mc is dumbfounded because she thought that she was supposed to be the reincarnation of the ex-gf. ( it was actually an illusion created by the prefect in order to fulfil her wish and allow her to undergo reincarnation at the same time ) Whilst all of this was going on, prefect and the mermaid - whose arms the ex-gf died in - were standing at a distance, taking in the scene before them. "Isn't it funny how not matter how many times she's reborn, the person she loves is always him?" the prefect asked, bitterly.
EPILOGUE - the male mc and female mc are back in her apartment and he asks him why she didn't let go of his hand when they were in the woods. The female mc responds by asking him why he let go of her hand. " If I were to say that it was ghost boy who made me want to protect you, you would be happy wouldn't you?" he teased " Unfortunately he's dead and there's only me ".
This is where I get really angry. THE FEMALE MC THINKS " WELL, I"LL STAY BY YOUR SIDE TO PROTECT GHOST BOY " HOW MANY TIMES DOES HE HAVE TO TELL YOU THAT GHOST BOY IS DEADDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!?!??!?!?!?! HOW MANY TIMESSS!?!?!?!
HOW MANY BLOODY TIMES?!??!?!?!!??!?!?!?!!? GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
To summarise all of the above: This book piece of crap has crappy writing, crappy pace, a crappy plot, a lot of redundant characters, a lot of crappily resolved story arcs ( ex: the big reveal of the identity of the person who tried to murder the female char, the freeing of M from its mirror, the reunification of the male and his ex-gf etc ) as well as crappy characters. The male character was too obsessive, the female character was too dense and too dense and the other characters were just plot devices used to make the story "more exciting" and COMPLICATED. We don't get to fully know who the prefect is, who the female mc's "friend"/killer is etc because THEY WERE JUST THERE FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF THE PLOT.
You know what? Fudge you, you piece of crap. Thanks to you, I wasted 5 hours hoping for the plot to get better with every turn of the page because I desperately needed to have some closure before I went to sleep. In spite of that, not only did I not get any closure when I finished a chapter, the plot got worse and worse that it was impossible for me to go to sleep because I didn't want to sleep knowing that if I continue to read this the next night, I would be wasting my precious time reading a piece of garbage. So, I had to finish it in one go just so that I could feed my curiosity as well as sleep knowing that tomorrow night, I'd have something worth reading. Even if it did cost me a few hours of sleep.
... Fudge you.
- This is the first time I have the urge to burn a book and/or rip it into shreds but I can't because it's a present and it's someone's hard-earned money.
Thank your lucky stars that I wasn't the one who bought you you piece of crap, if not you would've been ripped and stepped on repeatedly before I proceed to throw you into the smelly bin where you belonged.
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