Reading Manacled

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I've been reading Dramione fanfics for years and I just now finally got the courage to read Manacled (was super intimidated by it lol)

I am nowwww on chapter 10 and already I've teared up a few times, this is definitely going to be a hard read😭 so if anyone, without spoiling it, wants to soften the blow this will give me, by all means, HELP LOL

Edit: I just finished Manacled.

I AM NOT OKAY.

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moopsiefruitsie

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From around the 60% to the 80% range I DID NOT STOP CRYING. I tried to read in a coffee shop and I had to leave due to sobbing. The end is a gut punch - I think about it constantly.

I loved it so much that I immediately listened to the ETL Echo Audiobook after I finished it.

Although it is "dark" I didn't find it disturbing. It was just extremely emotional. Granted, I think I have a very high tolerance for "dark." The only fic that I stop reading because it was too dark was Secrets & Masks (and that was more because I found the Dramione relationship unappealing, found Draco to be irredeemable).

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I literally just finished two minutes ago, and I am NOT OKAY.

It was so beautifully written, and my heart aches for the two because all of the things that happened were so incredibly horrifying, and I cried during it but it did not hit me so.much so until the end. It's like I got all I wanted from it, but nothing at all at the same time