As annoyed as I was by FL’s appalling lack of self-awareness, I wound up liking the fact that her inability to suspend disbelief that she was in anything other than a rofan novel was the reason she had that insane amount of plot armour all along. Tbh I kept reading partly because of the mystery but mostly because I wanted to see reality finally hit. Except it didn’t, which I suppose was the point—her belief it was a rofan altered events so significantly it essentially turned into one. I do think “The Rules of Rose Ivy Manor” is a better title though, because the original one gives away too much of the mystery and makes FL seem even more clueless (in a bad way). Also, I think the manor rules were written by the soulless body that was Rosé, the person who should never see them. There was an offhand comment by a maid about her hiring employees despite not being the mistress of the house, which confused her for a moment, and there were no new employees once she came.
As annoyed as I was by FL’s appalling lack of self-awareness, I wound up liking the fact that her inability to suspend disbelief that she was in anything other than a rofan novel was the reason she had that insane amount of plot armour all along. Tbh I kept reading partly because of the mystery but mostly because I wanted to see reality finally hit. Except it didn’t, which I suppose was the point—her belief it was a rofan altered events so significantly it essentially turned into one. I do think “The Rules of Rose Ivy Manor” is a better title though, because the original one gives away too much of the mystery and makes FL seem even more clueless (in a bad way). Also, I think the manor rules were written by the soulless body that was Rosé, the person who should never see them. There was an offhand comment by a maid about her hiring employees despite not being the mistress of the house, which confused her for a moment, and there were no new employees once she came.