This is because the developer is tired of creating this story. I don't think it's gonna be any good after this. He also says he's taking a break.
My life has undergone significant changes since I started Hillside four years ago, and things are just not working for me right now. I no longer enjoy making Hillside and haven't done for a long time. I'm constantly stressed and unhappy, and it's affecting my personal life, the people around me, and my health.
So why did he/she dragged the story on and on
like it were a dead horse, for chrissake?
When he/she started it the updates cycle was shorter and he/she said it was going to have not that many updates.
My honest feeling is that the story was very good, fun to read and the interaction with the house girls really good for the first 6 updates, then it was "meh" until Zak's killing, then it totally went south.
I've always had the feeling that
1) the Author never had a clue of what to do with Suzi (how to fit her into the story, biggest problem being the fact that she doesn't live with her family anymore);
2) same problem with Emma: how to make a romance with MC being our adolescent girl so immature and
3) more importantly, why our MC should choose
anyone over Charlotte?
In the meanwhile, nothing happened with Charlotte and daughters, only the side spinster and the broad, but who gives a damn about them bitches.