Talk:A Courtesan of Rome/@comment-38031979-20190117165550/@comment-3452092-20190119044300

Funny you should mention one of the stories I hate more than potentially any other that I have read by one of the authors I have yet to read anything I enjoy by. . . though there are a large number I haven't read and I am told that I might like The Merchant of Venice. Honestly, with Romeo & Juliet, I agree. It wouldn't be as memorable without that. I would have forgotten it entirely rather than hate it as much as I do. I'm not sure that's a good thing.

I'm not really all that concerned with how this one ends, because they are going to have to do a lot to make me even like it a little. It's pretty blah to me. I kind of like Delphinia's story, but not Victus or the main character's stories, so. . . yeah, it would be nice if it turned out I liked how it ends, but I'm not sure that makes up for my not liking how it goes about getting there.

If the only thing I can say after ending something I liked up until the end is, "fix it," then I'm not too inclined to trust the author with other things. I will give an author extreme loyalty if they win me over, but if they don't, well, there is a reason I won't touch William Shakespeare's works with a ten foot pole and its name is Romeo & Juliet and it is friends with Macbeth and A Midsummer's Night Dream. And there are other reasons I am soured on even more of the classics such as The Scarlett Letter and basically anything by a Bronte sister and the list really does go on for a while, but you have no idea how stunned I was when I actually liked Pride & Predudice (also The Princess Bride, but that's only related, because both I was introduced to in my senior English class. I was really glad to have found something written before 1900 that I liked . . . besides maybe Beowulf, but then that one was a little hard to understand in Old English as it was.

I'm glad you are enjoying it. I'm not sure I hope you get the ending you want, because we really don't agree there, but since you like the story in general and I, in general, do not, it would probably be nice if one of us liked it. The funny thing is I actually love the genre. . . or maybe that's the problem. Who knows.