My thoughts?
So I like smut don't get me wrong I have weird tastes, and usually I'd like age gaps but this just feels too wrong to me
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Excuse my spelling I'm bad at spelling names and I don't want to go back to find out how to spell it right. I'd have liked it a lot more if she liked the dudes closer to her age but it just feels so wrong knowing how poorly she was treated by her parents and besides Mirar the first adult adult to show her she matters just ends up using her body. It's kinda of disturbing that she was 17 and he was trying to resist touching her as it was his responsibility to take care of her. I can better understand the younger men and Tiernan doing stuff but I just don't understand the man that was supposed to be a father figure taking advantage of her.I don't think it was badly written I just would've preferred her ending up with one of the youn adults. I actually couldn't finish it because I got such strong pedo vibes.
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