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Butterfly 5
by Ashley Antoinette
I am not understanding where all the five star ratings are coming from, but here is my unsolicited opinion. If you are a die-hard fan and love this series, maybe you should stop reading now.
This is long, but hear me out.
The biggest issue in this story is the introduction of new problems when the series is supposed to be wrapping up. This is just bad business. Readers can’t trust authors who make moves like this. There is value in closure. Authors should want their readers to come into the story, live in the pages, and walk away. When you take away the readers’ ability to do that, the stories are less enjoyable.
Obviously this story is fiction but what really pulled readers in initially was relating to the characters and the empathy we had for them. When the characters refuse to grow or take 2 steps forward just to take 5 steps back, you start to wonder if your time is being wasted here and your money is better spent somewhere else. I think more than a few readers are starting to feel played - like the author is building all this excitement for these people and only delivering the BARE minimum. Having readers wait 2+ years for this level of writing is absurd. This seems like it was thrown together with no care to the plot already established from the past 13 books (MTAF, E1-6, Christmas, Invitation, B1-4). Anybody who has read all the books up until this point truly deserved more of an effort than this.
Another problem is the repetitiveness. We’ve already seen the surprise pregnancy, kidnapping and cancer plots played out. I don’t think it added anything of value at this point. It was a major SIGH for me.
To wrap it up, I just have a few quick comments:
Messiah: it’s time to grow up. Licking ice cream off the therapists face?! Really?! That’s such a slap in the face to all this so called progress he’s made. What a joke.
Morgan.. sigh. I don’t get how the actual traumatic events are just passed over. Morgan, who was sheltered better than a deadman’s secret, has been raped, beat, shot at, lost a baby, etc.. But let an ex-boyfriend call her a ‘chore’ and all hell breaks loose. Her sneaky link supposedly get a girl pregnant and now she can’t sleep at night? Ok girl.
Morgan + Mo Diamond: pointless. Added nothing to the story. Hopping in a strangers car was STUPID. If you haven’t read Cartel it seems so out of place. And it just brings the Cartel readers back to Money Devils 2 which was promised how long ago and just disappeared? It’s too inconsistent to have any value.
Did the ER doctor really come into a room and drop the ‘cancer’ bomb on young parents/adults because a baby came into the ER with a fever? Hmm.
Was it just me or did Bleu seem completely out of character? I didn’t recognize her at all.
Aria and Isa could have just stayed where they are. What was the value add?? The drama was just DRAINING! For absolutely no reason.
Ethic & Alani: DRAINING! So much so in fact I don’t even have the energy to express my disdain for this mess. One word: closure.
Ahmeek, my forever love. I’m sorry.
This is long, but hear me out.
The biggest issue in this story is the introduction of new problems when the series is supposed to be wrapping up. This is just bad business. Readers can’t trust authors who make moves like this. There is value in closure. Authors should want their readers to come into the story, live in the pages, and walk away. When you take away the readers’ ability to do that, the stories are less enjoyable.
Obviously this story is fiction but what really pulled readers in initially was relating to the characters and the empathy we had for them. When the characters refuse to grow or take 2 steps forward just to take 5 steps back, you start to wonder if your time is being wasted here and your money is better spent somewhere else. I think more than a few readers are starting to feel played - like the author is building all this excitement for these people and only delivering the BARE minimum. Having readers wait 2+ years for this level of writing is absurd. This seems like it was thrown together with no care to the plot already established from the past 13 books (MTAF, E1-6, Christmas, Invitation, B1-4). Anybody who has read all the books up until this point truly deserved more of an effort than this.
Another problem is the repetitiveness. We’ve already seen the surprise pregnancy, kidnapping and cancer plots played out. I don’t think it added anything of value at this point. It was a major SIGH for me.
To wrap it up, I just have a few quick comments:
Messiah: it’s time to grow up. Licking ice cream off the therapists face?! Really?! That’s such a slap in the face to all this so called progress he’s made. What a joke.
Morgan.. sigh. I don’t get how the actual traumatic events are just passed over. Morgan, who was sheltered better than a deadman’s secret, has been raped, beat, shot at, lost a baby, etc.. But let an ex-boyfriend call her a ‘chore’ and all hell breaks loose. Her sneaky link supposedly get a girl pregnant and now she can’t sleep at night? Ok girl.
Morgan + Mo Diamond: pointless. Added nothing to the story. Hopping in a strangers car was STUPID. If you haven’t read Cartel it seems so out of place. And it just brings the Cartel readers back to Money Devils 2 which was promised how long ago and just disappeared? It’s too inconsistent to have any value.
Did the ER doctor really come into a room and drop the ‘cancer’ bomb on young parents/adults because a baby came into the ER with a fever? Hmm.
Was it just me or did Bleu seem completely out of character? I didn’t recognize her at all.
Aria and Isa could have just stayed where they are. What was the value add?? The drama was just DRAINING! For absolutely no reason.
Ethic & Alani: DRAINING! So much so in fact I don’t even have the energy to express my disdain for this mess. One word: closure.
Ahmeek, my forever love. I’m sorry.