I ALSO CRIED MY EYES OUT OVER GABRIEL BOUTIN
i hated the books with a passion like wdym one of them died and the other turned into a TREE
love the show tho ughh it's so good
Okay, for absolute real, WHAT THE HELL, RIGHT?
I will apologize in advance if I sound a little manic and/or get a little long-winded, but this series rewired my brain when I read it. I loved it so damn much, and when Gabriel died, it was like my heart was torn out. I have never mourned a fictional character so deeply. Because, seriously, what the hell???
Nathan went through absolute shit his entire life, just constant abject misery, and he found ONE good thing in his life, ONE hope for a better future, ONE spark of light at the end of that endless pitch-black tunnel that would make all the awful that came before "okay"...And the author takes that away too!? FOR WHAT?? He died for NOTHING, and it is bullshit.
I was devastated for Nathan, and I was devastated for Gabriel. Gabriel, who loved Nathan so much that he would have done anything for him, followed him anywhere, and the only thing that love got him was killed.
But, ohhh, Nathan became a TREE and blah blah magic blah, implications that their spirits can be together in the earth through magic blah whatever - I would rather they had both died, and shown some sort of afterlife. Quite frankly, there are a dozen different directions it could have gone that I would have preferred.
Anyways. Thanks @seolihexagon for giving me an excuse to rant. I don't know anyone else who has read this so I was soloing in my misery when I finished it. And hard agree that the show was amazing. It is criminal that it got cancelled.















