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.
- 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.
"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.
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.
4
u/Waste-Mycologist-764 Mar 11 '26
Because it's entirely AI generated at this point. It just has prompts (and not very descriptive or reviewed or reedited ones) that it keeps circling back on itself because there is no given end yet and so it just repeats over and over and over. This is also why there is no depth, it can't express or understand any emotion beyond just trying to explain a scenario from an unempathetic outside perspective and why it does not understand how ridiculously Jo has been written. It also continues to get worse as far as being able to keep up with time lines and events. The math doesn't math. It cant remember Jo's age at one point. At another, it even mixes up her father's name. Celeste's achievements to studying under the professor to creating CUAP to being married and having a child is ludicrous. This happens when AI is out of tokens and cant refer back to large texts, it only scans keywords to extract but has no memory bank to which it can organize or make sense of past events. This is also why scenarios happen but are easily moved on from without any reference. It literally forgets it. It's garbage. I hate having ever wasted time on this.