The Loathed Omega

Conflicted. On the one hand, this is a bully romance and the bully DOESN'T apologize but all is miraculously immediately forgiven because ~ 🥰fated mates🥰~. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

On the OTHER hand.... Jackson isn't a bad person. He makes amends. In a way. His entire EXISTENCE is devoted to making amends.

BUT I'm a coldhearted person and I'd rather amends not be required to begin with. Even the background reason for why Jackson bullied Eli is flimsy at best. He could have just avoided this omega🤷

This is why I prefer to avoid bully romance AND fated mates books. I don't know if bullying is ever justified or forgivable AND with fated mates, sometimes I can't be convinced that the two aren't just making the best of a bad situation.

I don't know if I loved or hated this book. I hated Eli's immediate forgiveness of Jackson, I'll tell you that much. Not even a little resentment?

If anything, I'd be MORE resentful if my bully of four years turned out to be my true mate, but that's just me. (it should be everyone though, because c'mon, how fucked up is that??)

There'd be a LOT of emotionally /sexually manipulative withholding of the goods, I'll tell you that much.

This is why the fated mates shtick felt like a way to gloss over the difficult conversations in this book. Because Jackson didn't have to work at his redemption because he was magically forgiven.

Alternatively, one could argue that it's more telling of his character that he worked so hard at it regardless.

But alas. I am not that 'one'.