karlakolumna

I have extremely mixed feelings about this book. Srsly.

Varying from joyful adoration and loving feelz to absolute eye-rolling exasperation and full-on hate. After a totally endearing and funny start I really had to force myself to keep reading during the first third/half of the fic..

There were so many, way too many, seemingly never-ending inner monologues -- I mean I was literally on the fringe of drowning myself in the sink in order to just escape all this long-suffering, self-reflective draaaaama.
And they weren't just endless (as if that alone wasn't enough already), no, they were repetitive. Like, there are only that many things that Stiles and Derek can cry about, so the author let them hash and rehash (and rehash) those again and again. (Okay, to be fair, in Derek's case it's actually a mountain of reasons to be wallowing in self-pity. But reading the same thing over and over again is tedious. Everyone and their grandmother did get it the first couple of times.) Boy. It was painful.

So, in order to prevent losing my mind and sanity I proceeded to skip and/or skim all theses rambling inner monologues (because frankly if you've read one you've read all) and decided to focus on the good parts...

And don't get me wrong. It was funny and lovely, and even though Derek was more everything -- (so very) insecure and damaged and broken and with very little self-confidence -- than I really prefer him to be in fanfics and in my head, I kinda liked his sweet and adorable side. This was probably the sweetest, but non-sugary, non-cavity inducing Sterek pairing I've encountered so far.
And despite my usual aversion against sweet, fluffy relationships and couples, I really enjoyed this one.

Cut the unnecessary inner ramblings and endless self-analysis and this would be a 4 star rating.

But, alas, like this it's just 3 stars.