

It counts on the writer’s brilliant passing of time skills as one of their merits - to successfully tell the tale of a life and to make you invested as it was a real one - the “plot-twist” tool, unfortunately, made the story to lose some of its charm, and wasn’t needed (not even for character-growth purposes, fight with me on that). Too bad Monique’s background story, her own dilemmas and conclusions, feel a bit dull and over simplified in comparison to the overall tone of the bigger story.
It counts on the writer’s brilliant passing of time skills as one of their merits - to successfully tell the tale of a life and to make you invested as it was a real one - the “plot-twist” tool, unfortunately, made the story to lose some of its charm, and wasn’t needed (not even for character-growth purposes, fight with me on that). Too bad Monique’s background story, her own dilemmas and conclusions, feel a bit dull and over simplified in comparison to the overall tone of the bigger story.