Lead Me Not

It's hard to review this one without getting a bit philosophical. What I will say, is that before, during and almost right up to the end, I thought I'd tag this under MCs I'd never forgive. And now I kind of don't want to. I can explain.

First, this entire thing gave me that vibe of.....you know how sometimes men say they didn't realize what women go through until they had daughters? Yeah.. Kind of like that but woo woo, gay people are bad until whoops... I fell in love with another man. So a bit mmmh on the icky side but....

Reading it, it's kind of hard to hate Isaac because he's so repressed and bogged down by religious guilt, he can hardly think straight. And the yo-yo of his back and forth feelings is genuinely exhausting, but also sort of reads genuine???

At some point, I didn't want Colton to forgive him, because he really DID do a lot of harm. But how can you not understand when you're in his mind and feeling the angst right alongside him, you know? This is written as a man fighting himself, and it comes across really well.

The public apology helped. Let me tell you, I'm a sucker for public apologies, especially when the disrespect was very loud as this was. I really felt for Colton in that month. Heartbreak is hard enough without literally everyone you know and most people you don't knowing exactly what happened, it's timeline and having an opinion on it.

Isaac will never be a beloved MC, and he's not a misunderstood MC. But given everything going on, I don't hate him, and I don't hate that Colton forgave him.

Anyway aside from all that, this took me a while to get through because there's a LOT of delving into religious texts and attempting to debunk theories and whatnot. And that's a slog for me.