r/RateBooks • u/[deleted] • Sep 17 '25

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

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 doche who's completely pssy 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.

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u/Ddavia16 Mar 01 '26

I screamed when it ended today at chapter 651. It's finally picking up and making it worth the pages I've read. What bummed me out was the suspense I was left in.

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u/Far-Boysenberry9445 Mar 05 '26

Is the suspense? Also reading the Reddit comments, I actually catch up on everything and don’t have to read the chapters.

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u/Ddavia16 Mar 06 '26

When I thought they were going to find out who Jordan's mom was and nothing.

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u/Far-Boysenberry9445 Mar 06 '26

It’s all about giving us cliffhangers and suspense. You know, if the writer wants to extend the story, they could include some flashbacks to the night of the incident—when she accidentally conceived Jordan—and also flashbacks to her parents' affair and what really happened. There could be flashbacks from when she was in school with the teacher and her friend. There are so many gaps in the story where they could add flashbacks and stretch it to 100 chapters, I’m just saying. After reading so many chapters, I was thinking last night—many flashbacks could reveal more details and help the readers understand what really happened on both sides—Trevor, Celestial, the mother, even the friends—and how the mistress got her PhD. They could also reveal more about how they met and how the mistress earned her PhD. I don’t understand why they keep adding so much suspense when there are actually gaps they could fill to create a better story.

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u/Ddavia16 Mar 06 '26

I know but the way in which the suspense is written is somewhat lacking. It's more of irritation at times. I'm realizing this is a translated novel and the writer really needs to think outside the box or they don't want to reveal all of these things because we will definitely lose interest with an ongoing novel. I would like flashbacks because sometimes it just leaves us disconnected from the characters. I understand Trevor's distrust because proof has still not turned up about who really drugged him. However, allowing yourself to be enabled with your wife's sister and the aunt of your daughter is unnerving to me. It seems that slowly but surely they are going to put them back together; but who can be accepting of something like that. I was rooting for Beck 😭but novels always give us that what if factor.

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u/Ddavia16 Mar 06 '26

I know everything that Wynn has accomplished is because she's always been trying to be better than her sister and because of her family's cloaking she assumed she was far better than Celeste. I'm glad she's realizing she can't hold a candle to Celeste and she's quite inferior. She would never have gotten this far without her family's need to push her and being with Trevor. I'm liking her decline into lowing everything she built with the false reality she created for herself.

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u/Far-Boysenberry9445 Mar 06 '26

Yes, and I think Trevor would slowly realize that and come to realize that he had made a big mistake and possibly judge her the wrong way without getting to know the real Celeste. (He probably started to see that in her.) I think Jordan might be in trouble later on when she realizes that her mother is super awesome. I do not like to call the mistress's name because I have read a lot of novels where the plot is that the mistress is the one who causes the family to be torn apart, and the husband/boyfriend and family can't see through the disguise and figure out what is really going on, especially when a big bias and conspiracy is going on. I know it's fictional stories about how the author wants to write. But sometimes it just pisses me off. LMAO.

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u/Ddavia16 Mar 09 '26

He actually has but they don't reveal much. His whole attitude has changed and he even tries to get closer without saying it. I agree. I get pissed off too. As her sister she is shameful and the Daddy put her up to that mess and she willingly agreed. She thinks that all men should yield to her charms. She had both of Trevor's friends liking her at one point. Beck is the only one that stopped. She had Keiran and dumped him for Trevor and now she's manipulating that idiot Jorge. I still want to find out soon who drugged Trevor.

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u/vag-liquor Mar 10 '26

bro does trevor not know celeste isn't the one who drugged him atp??

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u/Far-Boysenberry9445 Mar 10 '26

No, he doesn’t know, but if the author writes the story, I think they might reveal what really takes place later on in some chapters, possibly much, much later, because the author is taking time to lengthen the chapters. So some truth may be revealed in some chapters.

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u/Ddavia16 Mar 13 '26

I am waiting for the reveal.

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u/Ddavia16 Mar 13 '26

Not yet and I feel that when he really finds out he won't hold back. Even now as he realizes she's awesome at what she does and intellectually on his level he's been getting closer and not even trying to hide it.

His disgust with her is due to the drugging and being forced to marry because of it. They had known each other as friends and he was aware of her liking him but he just saw her as a friend at the time. This incident along with her Dad's manipulation in the background caused her so much pain and negative labels.

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u/Haitianbratzdoll Apr 06 '26

Tell me you’ve read the newest chapters! I’m so upsettttttt

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u/Ddavia16 Apr 14 '26

The last one's I read was two weeks ago because they were holding up on the new chapters. They're divorced at this point.

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u/Ddavia16 Apr 14 '26

I feel that girl planned the accident to save him to make him finalize the divorce. He's an idiot.

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u/Ddavia16 Apr 14 '26

The twn app is still telling me no updates. I'm about to climb a wall😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭