My Two First Loves / YMMV

Abandon Shipping: There was a lot of Ship Tease between Mackenzie and Elijah early on. Plenty of fans shipped them, thought their dynamic was cute, and expected you'd be able to pay diamonds to get them together. Then came the reveal that he's a Manipulative Bastard and around 19 years old, while she's 15. Even those who weren't completely put off by the former or were hoping for a redemption arc for him were generally pretty creeped out by the age difference.
Base-Breaking Character:
- Emma is criticized by many for being overly dramatic and having an It's All About Me mentality. Others feel her behavior is understandable given her age.
- Mason is loved by many for his sweetness and long-standing friendship with Emma. Others find his behavior possessive and stalker-ish, particularly if they're romancing Noah.
- Some fans feel Ava's treatment of Emma after the accidental kiss with Mason at the party was mean, unreasonable, and/or put them off romancing her. Others feel it was justified.
Ensemble Dark Horse: Ava is very well-loved by fans, to the point of begging Pixelberry to give her more screentime.
Fan-Preferred Couple: Mason and Noah, for their established history and banter with each other. Many fans were upset when "Nason" never came to be in case Emma dates Ava.
Foe Yay Shipping: It is implied that there may be some kind of chemistry between Emma and Elijah, which Noah takes notice of and expresses jealousy. Despite him being an antagonist, a lot of fans want him to be a LI.
It's Short, So It Sucks!: Each individual chapter is very short (even shorter in length than the chapters of Witness: A Bodyguard Romance), taking only a couple of minutes to get through, with only one premium scene per chapter. This is the result of chapters being released daily as opposed to weekly.
Padding: Plenty of fans feel like Emma's romantic indecisiveness is a result of Pixelberry needlessly stretching the story out.
Ron the Death Eater: Emma is occasionally referred to as a Villain Protagonist by many readers in online discourse due to some of her more selfish actions and indecisiveness despite being a young teen who cares about her loved ones and the antagonists in the book doing way worse than her.
The Scrappy:
- Despite being the main character, Emma herself is hated universally by many readers due to being obnoxiously indecisive towards her love interests and leading them on. As well as acting self-centered and quite selfish various times throughout the story. It gets to the point where in online circles discussing this book, Emma is almost always considered as the worst aspect of the story, even more so than the actual antagonists and villains in the book. Heck, even more than her own father mentioned below.^note
- Emma's father is universally hated by the fanbase for being borderline cruel and emotionally abusive to his two daughters, often over really asinine things like expressing their opinions. Hatred towards Emma's father solidified tenfold when he refused to pick his daughters up from jail, basically leaving them there overnight. There's a premium option to get a ride home from Noah or Mason, but if they take it, Mr. Price becomes angry and admits that he left Emma and Mackenzie in jail on purpose so they'd have time to think about what they did. Bear in mind that he makes this decision without even hearing their side of the story.
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Once again, Ava. Many fans feel her romantic arc deserves the same focus as those of Noah and Mason, and are pissed that she repeatedly gets sidelined over and over again.
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Some fans feel that the revealed history behind Mason and Noah is a far more interesting storyline than the Love Triangle between them and Emma, and wish that would be the focus of the story instead.

YMMV / My Two First Loves

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