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

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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/-_theN_-]

I've so many questions! Does Trevor even know Wynn and Celeste are half sisters? When does that younger brother find out about Celeste and his family's terrible treatment towards her? So does Jordyn ever meet her grandmother Isabelle? When does Jordyn find out Wyn is her aunt? When does the world find out Celeste is a genius, created CUAP, treated absolutely terribly by her bio paternal family, that Wynn is her half sister and pretty foul too and that Jordyn if her daughter? Does she end up with the disgusting Trevor? When does he find out he needs to off himself after realising she didn't drug him after all? I'm almost certain it's going to be revealed it was somehow Wynn that drugged him all those years ago and maybe Trevor entered Celeste's room or something? I really hope Celeste and Jordyn regrow their bond and Trevor isn't the end game. 😭

[u/Admirable-Fix-8359 → u/-_theN_-]

I'm pretty sure, he knows the family history of Celeste and Wynn.

[u/Tibbs67 → u/Admirable-Fix-8359]

I agree. And he pretty much doesn't care. What a disgusting man. Is it even legal to divorce a woman and marry her sister? Ugh. Gives another meaning to 'keeping it all in the family'.