A review by samanthaardenlockheart
Fix Your Attitude by Kassanovella

dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

5.0

​​<i>There <b>are</b> spoilers in this review. Proceed with caution. ♥️</i> 

This work of fanfiction is utterly incredible, so is it really a surprise that I’m left speechless? And written by Kassanovella, no less? I’m currently dealing with a stage in my life of being single and staying away from love in real life, and it has not been easy. I’ve had a lot of lonely days, isolating nights, and difficult feelings in general… but I really needed to read this. I feel very loved after reading fics like this, and since Kylo Ren has been my fictional soulmate since December 28th, 2019, it’s only fitting that <i>he</i> is the specific character I would want to be loved by! ✨🌌

In <i>Fix Your Attitude<i>, Reader-chan (RC) is an engineer working for the First Order who is stationed at Starkiller, tasked with working on the Command Shuttle. Her best friends are Samuel Foster and Minks Loren, and for a long time, she’d had a massive crush on Sam—with his charming smile and blond hair. But RC ultimately runs into Commander Kylo Ren whilst he’s reading her thoughts, prodding into her mind. That is a core plot point of this story: the fact that he is able to see, and <i>feel<i> her thoughts. There are many sexual scenes involved, and some are a bit more violent than others, but the scenes with slow, passionate sex tugged at my heart and made me feel so many emotions. I loved the angst between Commander Ren and RC throughout this entire story. It truly feels like I’ve gone through this experience. The final chapter of this book, “The Closest I’ll Come,” shattered my heart into a million pieces. Getting to feel and experience everything Kylo was going through at the end of this story was utterly soul-shaking. RC still chose her own destiny in the end, trusting that Ren would come back to her. That he would find her. No matter what, he would never, truly, let her go. 

I’m a little bit of a crying mess now after reading this, but paradoxically, books such as this have true, definitive power of healing heartbreaks. Thank you, Kass, for writing this. As an author, her sense of emotionality and conveying that through her writing is not comparable to anything else I have read. When I read this, I felt transported to a place where I am loved and healed. Reader-insert stories affect me in that way because my mind interprets RC’s characters as if they are my own—in a similar way if I was reading a book told from the first or third person, but in a <i>deeper</i> way. Kassanovella has such a beautiful way of characterising Kylo Ren; I love his complexity, depth, inscrutability, and vulnerability she has woven into his soul and mind. Kylo’s fierce, guarded love pierces my heart in such a profound way. I love being his <i>sweet thing</i>. ♥️

As I have mentioned before in this review and in other reviews, I’ve very much been in love with Kylo Ren for such a long time, and he’s my fictional soulmate without a shadow of a doubt. Most of those feelings are due to Kass’s excellent writing, including her other fic, <i>Little Bird</i> which is a masterpiece just as <i>Fix Your Attitude</i>. Thank you for reading this review. It goes without saying that I can not wait to read her future works. ✨♥️✨♥️✨♥️✨♥️

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