Misery Always Knows, reviewed by MrWillis

Collen has written a blogpasta called Misery Always Knows. The story is of a girl called Misery who finds out that the Burning Bride has taken a keen interest of her. 

And that is greatest bits of the story for me, as we slowly began to realize (and affirm) that who this mysterious entity called Eris is called. From the very beginning you can sense who Eris is, or if you’re new she is seriously faking that smug smile she has, yet Collen builds up the tension through each one of the post along until the big reveal of who Eris is and what she has in store for Misery. 

After that point my personal opinion and objective opinion diverse, so I will give my objective opinion instead. 

After the Caves of Luminescence, the rebuild up of the tension starts, with Misery frantically trying to figure out on how to stop Eris, since her options are pretty shitty with them being either join her and be a mindless slave or die, as the decision point is coming near. At this part I wish Collen could’ve once again made more post to build the tension up a little more since it didn’t have same feeling as the first one however that ran the risk of blogpasta becoming redundant so I forgive that. 

Next we have the climax, we Decision Point which is one big blog post cut into smaller pieces for the reader’s pleasure. Here the final confrontation between Misery and the Burning Bride is a logical and reasonable discourse that is lackluster because the tension wasn’t nearly as big leading up to it when compared to the reveal and the fact that it felt uneventful with Part I being a sign off, Part II a set up phase. Part III and Part IV are a recapping of why Misery was chosen, how the events leading up to this point were set in place by the Burning Bride, then Misery retorting back to Eris how she is wrong about her. Decision Point Part V is where the actually conflict comes a point, Misery grabs the ring, knocks Eris off the roof and that’s it. There is one more blog post of what happened afterwards and it is done. 

As you can see the conflict point doesn't get touched until part V where…well…it is anti-climactic. Not saying it doesn't make sense or that it seems like a deus ex machina because it isn't. The reasoning behind the post are quite sound. It just doesn’t come off as a superb, even though I want it to. 

Conclusion 

Here is my final overview. Misery knows all is overall a well done piece that has no illogical inconsistencies; everything makes sense. It for the most part is well-handled in the built up of tension and dramatics. The only gripe I have it the ending felt rushed for the lack of a better term. 

That being said, great short series, worth the ten or twenty minutes of time you’ll need to finish it.