isolde’s pov is actually insufferable. her being an assassin was not believable at all. her religious brainwashed thoughts were ridiculous. 

the only person i felt their actions made sense is tristen. i feel like his character building in book one was so good that it made sense he slept with osolde after she was married. touch and attention starve starved easily falling in love tristen? of course he did that. what i don’t understand is why isolde did that? where is the training? where is the devotion to her god? i get it’s her kink to enjoy the shame but girl how did you survived at this point makes no sense. i think it was supposed to come off as mark being this godlike figure that he’s irresistible but he isn’t. he’s just creepy.

i hate mark and he doesn’t deserve tristens love. hell not even isolde but at-least in her case he chose her. mark kept putting tristen in situations like having lunch with him and his bride or asking tristen to play chess on their WEDDING NIGHT. i don’t get it. at this point i need his pov to humanize him bec i hate him. also his after care sucks. don’t get me started on the whole stalking his current wife since childhood but then having sex with her the moment she legal. flipping weirdo.

isolde is at fault too. isolde and mark were cruel to tristen. they took advantage of his need to please. her asking to was cruel. parading their relationship in front of him knowing.. KNOWING he was in pain. she kept thinking about it and did nothing because she’s in a religious cult and is brainwashed. i personally couldn’t sympathize with her. she had no conviction. the only reason i didn’t dnf is she’s twenty two and young ppl do not make the best decisions.

one last complaint i have is a lot of the times in poly book the mfc doesn’t get a good romance building. in this one i feel like we got it with tristen and isolde for those three weeks. however almost zero with her mark. anyway hopefully the next book is better. i want better for tristen.