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A review by nikkieliz13
The Land Where Sinners Atone by V.F. Mason
2.0
The MMC wasn’t redeemable to me. I ended up skim reading/jumping around to the end of the book because of how much I disliked him. A major spoiler that really made him irredeemable as the MMC to me: So the whole reason the MMC hates the FMC to the point of having her sent to jail and beaten to within an inch of her life is because the FMC was the driver of the vehicle that ran over and killed the MMCs beloved wife. (It’s important to note that the FMC’s car was hacked, and she wasn’t in control at the time of the accident. Nobody believed her though.)
We later find out that the FMC and MMC were actually each others pen-pals from childhood/tween-years into early college years (I can’t remember the exact age range.) They both had sh*tty lives, and were each others person, but when they finally plan to meet in person for the first time since they met as kids, the MMC ends up running late and missing the FMC. Instead he ends up meeting his future wife and instantly becoming smitten with her, to the point where he’s like, “My whole relationship with my pen-pal [FMC] was leading me to this moment where I met the love of my life.” Him and the FMC are never in contact again after this point, which is why neither recognizes the other (along with the fact that they knew each other by different names) when the whole car incident occurred over a decade later.
Honestly, this additional knowledge made him even more irredeemable, with how easily he replaced/got over the FMC the first time around. It made it seem like the FMC was always going to be second-place to the MMC’s beloved late wife.
We later find out that the FMC and MMC were actually each others pen-pals from childhood/tween-years into early college years (I can’t remember the exact age range.) They both had sh*tty lives, and were each others person, but when they finally plan to meet in person for the first time since they met as kids, the MMC ends up running late and missing the FMC. Instead he ends up meeting his future wife and instantly becoming smitten with her, to the point where he’s like, “My whole relationship with my pen-pal [FMC] was leading me to this moment where I met the love of my life.” Him and the FMC are never in contact again after this point, which is why neither recognizes the other (along with the fact that they knew each other by different names) when the whole car incident occurred over a decade later.
Honestly, this additional knowledge made him even more irredeemable, with how easily he replaced/got over the FMC the first time around. It made it seem like the FMC was always going to be second-place to the MMC’s beloved late wife.