Talk:Book 8: Legacy/@comment-2601:246:C180:C210:81F:7EBB:ECC8:BA2B-20191205043044

Ok so, I used to really love this series. I adored it. I would be awake when the books came out and I would read them at lightning speed. I would read them over and over and over again. But I've been here for years, and now that I've progressed into my teenage life, I've noticed some things that bothered me about the series.

1. No character development. They all stay the same. That's just not how growing up works. Keefe is the only one who changes, and the rest of the characters just get neglected. I can't find one character other than him that has an actual arc.

2. Sophie is kinda messed up.

a) First of all, Keefe has betrayed her so many times, and she lets him back in every time as if it never happened. If someone hurts you that much, that regularly, you need to get out of that toxic relationship. I understand why she does it, but the issue is, it's not just her that that decision impacts. It hurts the rest of the people she loves, too. That is not a good message for young people to see. Always forgive people who hurt you. The reality is, sometimes you can't.

b) Sophie is one dimensional. Change my mind.

3. Her book structure is the same every time. Look, don't get me wrong, I love a good plot twist. But she does the same thing in every book. It feels like a kids' TV show, the same template every episode, over and over again.

4. Some of the big secrets she reveals are not very good. The thing that Fitz transmits to get in is "It's me,"? Seriously? It kind of feels like she didn't have a plan for what he would say, and then when we wanted to know, she had to rush it. I was expecting something clever, or that meant something in their relationship specifically, but it was just "It's me."

5. The love triangle. It's not that I have anything against it, it's just that I could tell from the top that Sophie and Fitz weren't going to end up together. It's not that I don't want them to end up together, because I do. I've been team Sophitz since I was 10. Keefe is the bad boy, so once I realized that Shannon probably was going to have Keefe and Sophie and Keefe end up together, Keeper started to feel like those bad boy romances that I can't seem to escape from.

6. I just kind of lost interest. I was a fan of this series early on. I have little reason to keep reading it anymore. It breaks my heart because I used to love this series to the moon and back, and now I can't bring myself to continue reading it.