So I’ve been reading this series called Curse of the Gods and man I am so conflicted. Book 1 started off great. the F!MC is hilarious, sassy and confident. She’s fun! She has an awesome best friend! They’re so close they consider one another as sisters. The M!MC’s are... meh. They’re dicks who are amused by the F!MC and decide she is their pet. This never really progresses beyond that, they ignore her opinions, don’t give a shit about anything she cares about unless it directly involves them, don’t really do anything in the story beyond respond to her behaviour, pick her up and carry her around, and while they show affection it just feels like affection for a pet than an equal. The descriptions for the M!MCs is also bizarre. They’re apparently huge and she is tiny and needs to be picked up to reach their shoulders, but then suddenly she can reach their faces to do a specific thing? We’re never given a specific height for them so I just imagine them the size of the hulk for entertainment purposes. There is a really interesting tiered social structure: Dwellers, lowest of the low, basically slaves/serfs. Sols, powerful beings who are training to ascend to godhood. Gods, the top tier, most powerful, etc etc. F!MC is a dweller. M!MC’s are pretending to be Sols but are actually Gods. The second book is just okay. The dwellers start to be unsatisfied with their role in life and death which is a really cool plot. Third book? A lot of weird plot points are brought up in this book and never addressed. The plot focus shifts from the dwellers to “what the hell is the F!MC?” and more to the Gods and their shenanigans. Fourth book: More of the same. We see almost nothing of the dwellers anymore and get a lore dump that completely contradicts the lore in book two. Book five is so far. I’m 19% in and not wild about it. The timeline for events is bizarre. One moment everyone is talking about a party happening that evening, then suddenly they’re all in their nightwear going to bed? The humour is very hit and miss. I don’t experience any second-hand embarrassment or anxiety because the F!MC is so confident in herself. However book 2′s humour is very much “lol you’re so dumb, F!MC!” especially from her love interests. Book four and five are relying heavily on making mentally unstable people the butt of the jokes which is a no no for me. They also use a character’s alcoholism as a joke. That sister the F!MC has? She had a love interest who died in book 2. We get nothing showing her grief over losing a lover. No development, no learning to move on from a dead lover. Instead? Book 4 has her being tormented by a god who apparently finds her attractive but shows it by forcing her to constantly be around him (to the point where he has sex with another woman while she is trying to sleep in the room) and he continually insults her. We’re never shown them bonding or shown any reason why they would be a good match romantically. What does F!MC do? ENCOURAGES THE RELATIONSHIP. Her sister does stand up for herself and tells the god to go fuck himself but they still get together and I don’t understand why this relationship is popular with the fans? It’s just abusive and immature. There is zero character development for ANY of the characters. I’m honestly only reading this series for the F!MC but even she doesn’t progress emotionally, she’s forever funny, sassy and confident. I don’t understand why this series is so popular.