Author: Claire
Description: From slave to strong beautiful woman, Adele
finds herself in a cruel world. Will she be able to resist her handsome owner?
This
story’s about a girl called Adele who lives as a slave on a plantation in a
world of modern slavery. One night she unknowingly meets the boss of the
plantation who immediately takes interest in her. After hearing her sing on a
festival organized for him the next evening, he decides to take her with him,
but…for what reason?
Slavery is
a rather unusual theme and it makes one curious as to why the author chose it.
Yet upon reading the story up to episode 7, I have no idea why this theme was
chosen. Honestly, I don’t think the subject is very present: the romance is
just too overbearing so far. But let’s start from the beginning: I loved the
directing with the changing background while explaining the rules of this
modern slavery. It was interesting and symbolic. The main character has a
strong personality, for which I guess she is hated by people like Alma and the
girl that conspires with Alma (sorry, her name’s too complicated to remember
for me). Though I don’t really get why they want to go as far as to kill her. Adele
also has a loyal friend who’s more like a sister to her and a boyfriend, which
with whom things go downhill fast. When Adele gets taken to New York City by
Christian, the boss of the plantation, I was curious as to the reason why, but
even after 7 episodes, I didn’t find out yet, which is slightly disappointing.
Then there were a few other things I don’t get: if Adele has grown up on a
plantation and never left there, how on earth is she not freaked out when she
arrives in the big city?! Or when she goes shopping, why is there no hint of
awkwardness or bewilderment at the existence of malls and seeing so many
different shops selling so much different stuff? She acts like it’s all normal,
when in fact she shouldn’t have known stuff like that, right?
As I said,
I loved the idea with the changing backgrounds at the beginning of the story,
it’s very well done. But there are also some scenes that require improving when
it comes to directing. First of all there’s the scene in episode 1 where Alma
is first introduced. She just disappears and then walks into the scene again,
instead of walking to the spot in front of Adele. In episode 2 there is a
choice offered to the reader right after a new character the reader doesn’t
know at all yet comes in the bakery. Then we have to choose what she is having
for breakfast. What in a thousand worlds should I care what Shelly gets for
breakfast? Especially when I have no idea who Shelly is yet? And lastly in
episode 5 when Adele gets out of Christian’s car and leaves the zone, she gets
bigger than the car while she’s still behind it, which gives a bit of a
Godzilla effect. Improve those things and the directing will be decent enough,
overall. Note: in reply to this feedback,
the author has improved the directing in those episodes, so future readers won’t
come across this anymore 😊.
Want to try
this romance with a slight twist and find out why Christian really took Adele
out of the plantation? Open your episode app and read the story!
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