Te Amo: The End (my results & series review)
So THAT’S why it took place in New Orleans…!
It makes sense now. Sort of.
Because hurricanes don’t just show up instantly. I mean you usually know a hurricane is coming, like, days in advance. It doesn’t just suddenly show up on your doorstep. But it’s fiction, so whatever.
First of all, I just wanna say that I love this check list!
Who did I save? Thomas, Michael, Li & Nick, Jeanne.
Did I die? Yes. Yes, I did. Too bad. Thomas was so dreamy… I didn’t have enough points for that stupid watch!
My novel was published, but I guess I didn’t actually finish it? So no achievement there. 😞
Looking at that checklist above, I’m assuming if you save no one, you get the Lonely Heroine. If you survive and save everyone, you get The Way It Was Written badge. If you survive, but don’t save everyone, you get the Way It Happened badge.
IMO, this was a great ending. The whole story was very slow paced, and not a whole lot happened. But it made the impact at the end even more of a gut punch. (Especially if you died like me 😂).
Compared to the more high stakes stories like HSR and ABH, this was a nice change of pace for me. Sometimes I just wanna chill by the beach and make love to a sexy man, ya know!
I really liked the survival moments in the final episode. I’ve been really wanting a survival story to be released. C’mon stranded on a deserted island!!! This last chapter was the closest I think I’ll get to that.
The whole Li adoption thing was really weird. I died so i don’t know what happened in the end with them. I chose not to help Li adopt Nick because I thought it was messed up! Yet they both survived, so at least there’s that. But damn, that kid has the worst luck!
I thought the tribute at the end was really bittersweet. A friend of mine who passed actually joined the relief team after Katrina. She didn’t die in that hurricane, but it made me think of her.
I do feel like I’ve had some real close calls when it comes to major natural disasters. I used to live in Tohoku, Japan. The 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami hit just a few months after I moved back to the States. It was a surreal feeling to see everything under water on the news. I still think about the people I met and wonder if they made it out alive.
Then there’s the Lahaina brushfires. I was living in Lahaina in 2018. There had been a Hurricane 5 warning that we’d all prepared for. The winds were really strong, knocked over telephone poles, and a huge brushfire started in the night. We had to evacuate in the early morning. 4am-ish before the sun came up. That was terrifying. There’s only one road out and no cars were moving. Luckily, everything turned out okay. The firefighters managed to get on top of the fires and only a couple houses burned down. We were without water and electricity for a couple days, but it was okay.
Fast forward to 2023, I was in Honolulu at the time of the Lahaina fire that burnt everything down. But it’s something that I’m still not over. Thankfully, no one close to me was killed and our family house is still standing. But my mom lost friends and classmates. We know people who lost everything. My childhood memories are gone. I haven’t been back. I don’t know how I’ll feel if/when I do go back. It’s a grief I still haven’t fully processed. And I think about how relieved I am that my kids and I weren’t there and how it could’ve ended those years ago if we hadn’t gotten lucky with the winds changing direction.
Anyway… for that reason, the end dedication touched me, and I really appreciated that.
I definitely feel that I will replay this book again to get a happier ending. And to get those other badges! And to see Thomas again. 💗 because it’s short, it’ll be an easy replay.
It’s hard to grade this story because it was so short. But when I think back to PUB… 😬
I liked the setting. I liked the outfits and most of the story. (I just didn’t like Li’s story.) I loved the cozy vibes. I loved the CGs that matched our MC’s hair and outfits! I loved Thomas. I liked it better than Dracula A Love Story because it was an easier read. The ending was really good. So overall… I’m gonna give it a generous…
If there will be a Vol. 2, I wonder if it will also be connected to a natural disaster? What would connect the series together?
