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Nameless Fae Q3: Romance and relationships
This is a romance book, so the relationship between Gisele and Mal is core to the whole thing. What did you think of this relationship and how it developed through the book? Was it believable? Does the development of that relationship do enough to carry the book? (Not much else happens for most of the book, except the romance.)
How about Gisele and Mal as characters in their own rights? Are they believable, sympathetic, and rich enough for the story?
Comments
I enjoyed the romance. It was awkward but sweet, initially talking past one another but slowly coming into alignment. I liked both Mal and Giselle who were both deeper than they needed to be to toe the plot lines.
The characters felt like products of a world that had already determined for them who they were going to be and how they would behave. I didn't feel like they really had much agency, and it left me feeling very unemotional and disconnected from them.
I agree with @kcaryths - I didn't really believe in them as individuals, and certainly not in Gisele as a 40-something year old individual. I guess the only real question for me was "when will they finally get on with it?" but I accept that the whole will the won't they is an important part of the genre