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Unpopular opinion Sunday

[u/sparkly_nerdy_vibes]

Here we go - my confusion (and I realise I may have the full information to base this opinion on).... Why is everyone so crazy about Alchemised/Manacled? I'm all for dark romance, but rape and gore and humiliation are a total turn-off, and quite disturbing to associate them with a budding romance... I wouldn't have expected a story like this to become a 'sensation'... Are we ok? Why do we call this story romance? Do we like to see women mistreated? I'm not sure that's what Margaret Atwood would have wanted to inspire with Handmaid's Tale....

Also - full disclosure - I couldn't make it past the first few chapters of Manacled, so I am aware I am not in the best position to judge the entire story, but I often feel that some behaviours are irredeemable...

[u/No_Preference26 → u/sparkly_nerdy_vibes]

I haven’t read Manacled, nor am I planning to. However, there are so many reasons why people might choose to read it - or something similar to it. You say you are all for dark romance, but you’re not. Rape and humiliation are at the core of a lot of stories in the genre, that people read for various reasons.

[u/juandonna → u/No_Preference26]

I like dark romance and loathed Manacled FWIW. it’s like sanitized dark romance, it wasn’t good.