Date: July 15 2019 4:49 AM Title: Of Ending and Epilogues
I really do have a love / hate relationship with this particular story. I do still come back to read it over sometimes, and I don't think I could honestly say that it's a bad story.
The very last chapter I can say does feel 'forced' to say the least. In a lot of ways. Even with the idea of how the world works in mind, it's really hard to imagine a mother getting over the shrinking and eating of her daughter quite as quickly as she did, and the way the law was explained after her retrieval of the tiny, seemed rather nonsensical. It seemed like the only real purpose of this chapter was to soon feed just how terrible the world was to tinys, but that had already been explained well enough beforehand.
The transition from all of that to the wedding felt somewhat jarring, and that was partially because with all of the buildup in the chapter, I was expecting either Erin or Gwen to shrink during the wedding ceremony. Then Gwen would be forced to standup for her ideals and a moment of real interesting character interaction could have happened instead of what feels like a makeshift happy ending. Alternatively Erin would be right back in her previous situation and she would be left to consider what Gwen would have done or wanted, and perhaps followed through.
The way the rest of the story was structured felt mostly fine, and it's still an enjoyable read, but the epilogue, honestly doesn't feel like it necessarily wraps things up.