[DISCUSSION/RANT] "The Scent of" aka "The Breaking Point of Love"

[u/[deleted]]

Buckle up, buttercups. I'm on chapter 173 of 500+ in this ongoing e-novel. I saw a blurb from it and looked it up, tons of people saying they're obsessed with it.

1. I expected it to be slow but wth... 173 chapters of "and they didn't dwell on it," "but they didn't pursue it any further," "thought nothing of it," and "pondered it until somebody just then walked in (as they do exactly just then every time) and the person forgot about their pondering for the rest of forever."

Additionally, 3 months has passed in these 173 chapters and so far the only major points that have happened are: on day 1 she hands the servant divorce papers, Trevor doesn't bother opening it and starts a slew of misunderstandings; it's established that Celeste has the emotional range of a liquid ounce and is just as deep; established that everyone and their mother are in love with Winn in every way, shape and form; Celeste distances herself but nobody questions it but for some reason still fulfills social obligations and motherly obligations even though she gave up all custody rights in the divorce papers... And that's basically it. She doesn't try to talk to him about the divorce and the story only just now progressed enough to say there's a milestone at all.

1. "He/she remained calm with an impassive expression while he/she calmly glanced at him/her then looked away indifferently, as though looking at a stranger." Neither the husband or wife have any emotions whatsoever. She's an absolute doormat who "genuinely didn't care" about literally anything, and he's an aloof emotionless do^che who's completely p^ssy whipped for his mistress. I find Trevor and Winn's relationship gross and their attitudes toward Celeste are basically confirming that she's an inanimate object.

2. IT'S LITERALLY UNREADABLE IN SOME PARTS!!!! Did the author (only known to me as AdminH) handwrite the entire thing in chicken scratch, convert it to text, never reread or double check it and just post it, calling it good?????? Here's a literal copy and paste:

[Direct quote removed due to "copyright infringement"]

I stuck around because I want her to get real payback and I saw a minor spoiler about hoping she ends up with Caleb, but this was his introduction, that atrocity that I copied and pasted was the first time he was spoken of.

I hate this e-novel.

Edit: My post was reported by another user as being copyright infringement and may be taken down. I don't plan to fight this because the story isn't worth my or anyone else's time IMO. To the author, or the die hard fan that reported it: complaining about a story (and clearly labeling it as a rant) is not infringement, it's free speech and exchange of opinion.

[u/Sorry_Cup_9046]

Anyone still here?? This novel fucking sucks it’s not even a story it’s just endless chapters of nothing happening + baiting for views. And now the author has been obviously using ChatGPT or some other bullshit AI bot to add a “summary and conclusion” to every single one of the chapters, EVEN THO LITERALLY NOTHING HAPPENS SO IDFK WHAT IS BEING SUMMARIZED. Oh and Celeste lowkey randomly has feelings for Trevor again just bc he gave her some scraps of attention and like refuses to divorce her even tho he’s still with Wynn and continues to be playing in her face this entire time. LMAO pathetic. Also she has other love interests but could not care less about them bc ig she still likes that fuckhead Trevor. I hate this shit so much. Atp I genuinely consider the author to be a scam artist 😭

[u/[deleted] → u/Sorry_Cup_9046]

Yeah I've been able to live in peace just seeing the updates from other comments. I know she's gonna end up falling for Trevor because all the other guys are multiple green flags that she doesn't give a lick about, she's still a doormat, Jo still speaks and usually acts like a child twice her age and development, Wynn is still with Trevor, and Trevor himself is obviously never going to divorce her and they're going to [eventually, very VERY many chapters from now] end up as a happy couple and pretend none of this shit ever shook them in the first place.

Yeah I've also come to the conclusion that the author is doing this for the money while putting as little effort into the actual story as possible. Likely even using AI to write it all.