Hi there,
I finished You Broke Us just now. Great story. If you can ever find the inspiration, would you consider delving into Hoseok’s personality (what would make him spin so far into hate, blame and violence?) and downward spiral, and then find a way to lift him back to a place where he, at the very least, has a part in his children’s lives?
Happy endings for everyone else somehow felt hollow when three children lost there father because he could not cope or learn how to forgive himself for all the mistakes he’d made. That group of people that managed to create this extended family would have made room for him if they understood why he’d fallen so low and saw him fight to come back to being a good parent.
Also, when Kookie revealed his reasons for investing and helping him, that would have dropped Hoseok completely off the emotional ledge he was teetering on since he already felt like a monster before Kookie basically told him he was a failure at everything. It pained me greatly that he didn’t even seem to understand why he’d done the things he’d done.
The ending was good, it just seemed to be an incomplete story because Hoseok seemed to lose his mind and no one else understood anything except he’d disappeared.
