This didn't work for me. The story was okay, I guess, but the ending provoked some bad feelings inside me. The hero was around 30, heroine 18. So epilogue is 5 years later, which means that the heroine is 23. At that age she already has 4 children. Four. I'll be 23 in a few months and I can't imagine having 1 child, let alone 4. But that's me, and everyone is different. But my problem here is that he's 10 years older than her, so he's had time to experience world and get to know himself and become his own person, but what about her? At 23, she has 4 lives to think about, 4 little people to take care of and raise. She's also studying on top of that. I felt so sorry for her. And the way that the epilogue was written didn't help the situation. It's in hero's POV, and he's like 'she's a mother, wife, scientist and friend, she never complains and she does everything with a smile on her face, and I don't mind helping her around'. As if he's doing her a favor for sometimes taking care of their, HIS and hers, children. He gave me Andrew Tate and those alpha male podcasts vibes. A few days before reading this, I came across a story about a young girl who married an older guy, with whom she had a few children. And she talked about feeling unhappy and trapped and never being able to experience and enjoy her youth. And that really reminded me of this story. And I also know this girl who at 23, has 2 children. I know that she loves and adores them, but I also see how unhappy she is, and how much stuff she's missing out on. And I don't necessarily mean dating or something like that, but the freedom to do whatever she likes whenever she likes. Because I feel that when you have kids your life is not only your anymore, you're not the most important.
I don't like epilogues with a bunch of children in general (even though most epilogues are like that, especially in novellas), but I can't not read it because I'd feel like I haven't read the whole story. And most of the times, I don't like it, but I'm not against it. Whatever makes them happy. But this I just can't support. She had 4 children in 5 years since she was 18, and the father is 30. I just can't.