#lilly linton

i love this girl

Ms. Mr. Linton and Mr. Ambrose || STORM AND SILENCE

lilly looking down at mr ambrose because his manipulative ass only pay his [overworked] staff for only half the actual wage and making them think this is okay

Don't get me wrong, I adore the whole concept of '19 year old Victorian girl dresses up as a man to get a job'. But it's just so poorly written that I think about all the ways the story could be better when I'm in the bus going home from college.

I mean, that's how it is with books, they will be criticized no matter how good or how bad it may be. But then again, this is a Wattpad book. You can never expect too much from a Wattpad book. Every character feels very two dimensional after the first book that every other book after that is just plain fan-service.

The first book is genuinely good, except for the hyper feminist way Lilly is written to be. The author doesn't even bother to add conflict between any of the characters. The ONLY conflict that we ever get is Lilly arguing with Rikkard how she's capable of anything even if she's a women in every single book. It keeps going on and on like this that it just gets boring.

And the way Lilly's intelligence is suppressed makes me mad too. Like in book 3, she literally deciphers a map to find the treasure, but god forbid she recognizes her fiancé's(whether she likes him or not) initials on the waste disposal file and connect the dots on how he and her previous guy(I forgot his name) might've just disappeared. That right there could've been a good conflict. She recognizes the initials, realizes what Rikkard might've done, get angry and argue about not wanting him to interfere with it, then having to find an escape from her next fiancé and choosing to go out of town with Rikkard against her will instead of telling him why bcs she doesn't want a new waste disposal file.

Not to be mean, but the author is a man. At the end of the day, the way female characters are written by men will never be realistic. I know there might be real people out there like Lilly, but the way her "inner feminist"(I hate when she kept saying 'mY iNneR FemIniSt iS prOtEstiNg' stfu) is written truly makes me want to pull my hair out. It will never be same as writing a story from a women's perspective when you already know what it's like. I'm not saying that men are incapable of understanding the female experience, I'm saying that it's stupid and annoying when a man pretends he does.

Also the lack of historical accuracy boils my blood. Rob claims to have done thorough research on every historical details yet somehow Lilly and Rikkard goes on top of the Statue of Liberty despite the story taking place around 1840 and the statue starting its construction in 1876.

SNS was the last and final original story I've read on Wattpad. I really wish I could go back and keep myself away from that app and read an actual book. But it's the only place I could go to when I lost my sanity. Let me know how you feel about the book. I know there's barely anyone in the fandom, but please tell me your perspective.

Rikkard: We've been awake for four days

I’m so completely upset with this series. I remember when I began reading it in like sixth grade I recommended it to every person I could find, because there was only the first two finished books at the time. I remember seeing people talk about the quality drop and character change in the third book, but I remember really noticing it in the fourth. I remember excitedly telling my mom what happened in each chapter whenever it updated. I remember stopping midway through silence breaking. I remember the series ending with storm of bells. I remember crying because I loved the series so much, how I cried because it was over and because somewhere along the many books I couldn’t recognize the characters anymore. I remember being so excited when the seventh book was announced. I remember seeing how weird everything was, and how vague it all felt. (Also wrong, I’m going to vent quickly about how he was like, I’ll use the n word for authenticity of the era, but then mentioned the Statue of Liberty which didn’t even exist at that point) I remember sticking out reading the seventh book, even though I still couldn’t tell you the plot of it. I remember starting the eighth book, seeing them with pirates for so long and for no reason other than it being the worst content I’ve ever read. I remember when I stopped reading and promised that I would finish before school started back up. I am almost halfway into my senior year of high school and I can’t bear to read more than the first book, and even that’s just for nostalgia.

I feel dumb and childish. I feel like I should’ve seen where the quality dropped, but I felt like it was so subtle that I couldn’t tell until it was too late. I wish I had just stopped reading after the wedding book. I wish I wasn’t ashamed of the book series that inspired me to write and to read more and more. I wish I could, in good conscience, recommend these books to others. There are so many that still read the books and I can’t even bear to look at the bad cover for the ninth (?) book.