Pendrell Thank you for the high praise! Glad people seem to like my musings.
felicemastronzo Thanks for the clarification, I'd only seen a few screens of it and as I said I don't bother with Bella's route so I had no way of verifying it myself. I suppose that twist has similar issues to the first then, if on a lesser scale. Not sure why Jill would care if Bella and the MC were fucking if he never went after her.
As for your problems with Sage's twist, I take your point about your issues with it, I just don't think those issues are deal breakers in and of themselves. The MC not knowing Sage's last name for one reason or another is within the realm of possibility for the story, given his usual behavior. It's certainly odd to
me that he doesn't know - I've never dated a girl who kept her last name from me for months on end - but as I said, DPC has pulled this kind of thing before and it's not surprising to me to see it used here again for dramatic effect. DPC is no stranger to the heavy hand.