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[beccaelizabeth]

Stories where the one and only thing stopping them being happy together is nobody uses their words are just so frustrating.
The one I'm reading right now doubly so, because almost everyone in the story is a lie detector, and can already hear that nobody is lying when they say they love each other, so the contortions the story is going through to make it so they dont believe it are just
ugh.

I know I'm the one who chose to read it
but it had a perfect set up for 'got married then fell in love'
which would be a whole different thing.

Police partners who adopt kids together is a great setup though.

Comments

[theicescholar]

Why give your characters that ability in the first place if your main plot hinges on contrived misunderstandings?

[beccaelizabeth]

it's more like, why put the misunderstandings plot in the canon with the lie detectors

I guess some people just like the whole 'oh no he's too good for me he'd never like me' 'oh wow he really likes me!' cycle
enough to jump the logic hoops

[theicescholar]

Ahh

Is the book enjoyable otherwise?

[beccaelizabeth]

sort of

I liked the idea of the setup enough that not liking the specifics made it a bit annoying

it was not the fic I was looking for
but it wasnt bad