Wake up call is good as a Tattletale x Taylor fanfic with a flaw I am not sure counts if we're talking about a superhero teen romance story, but I believe does if we're talking about a Worm fanfiction.

Since we're talking about a fanfiction here, let's talk about Worm a little first.

The original Worm was an exciting, brooding, sometimes enraging thrill to read. The main crew and the main character, as well as pretty much every side character were thrown around like ragdolls, being forced into situations where they would be put through a crash test time and time again, sometimes without even a break.

They had to deal with personal relationship issues, with emotional issues, with being supervillains (heroes/other) in a mad world ready to devour them issues, with legal issues not involving being superheroes (villains/other), with being teens, with etc.

Sometimes they thrived, most of the time they just survived and were still somehow standing.

That was what made me enjoy the original story so much - because it had so much - and was so much.

Wake up call is kind of therapeutic when compared to the original. Here the author will not put the characters through the paces like a slave driver, the plans will not fly out of the window and escalate the problems to a ridiculous degree, hearts will not be broken and everyone will be happy at the end.

And that's what's been bugging me (heh). Because it feels too convenient, too unnatural. It's like the world bends over backwards to punish the bad, reward the good, and make everything alright - and in Worm setting, where the lines between good and bad are very very blurred and everything is just shades of grey, it just doesn't work well when you take a giant brush and forcefully paint something white and something black.

That's my problem with this story, what has been preventing me from enjoying it as much as I could've.

Other than that, I only have praises.

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