Too much of a Mary Sue

Drity Thoughts November 20, 2023 7:50 am

TLDR; She's too perfect. Solutions to problems just lands on her lap like it's nothing. Too many blondes!

Rant and spoiler: Gonna be quite critical with this. This kind of storytelling and characters aren't my thing, I guess. I wanted to read a story with a strong female lead, but she was too much of a Mary Sue. Too perfect in everything she does. All her surgeries never fails, she has a solution for everything and it'll always end in success, multiple love interests that doesn't fight for her, etc. Her only real enemies were the people the always underestimated her because she's a girl, too young, too frail, lack the ability, is a noble's daughter, "can't be serious", and the list goes on. That one emperor, Nicolas what's his face, is always going, "Agh, I've been foiled again! I'll get you next time!" and it goes on 3 or 4 more times. The beginning and middle part of the war was like, "Oh no, we don't have enough supplies. Let me ask daddy!" and "I need an oxygen machine, but how do I get one??" Then bam! Literally the very next panel there's the oxygen machine. The story keep hinting at the Prince's tragic past about 10 times before finally revealing his past 3/4ths of the way into the story. Also, how many darn blondes characters can you cram into a story?? There's literally at least 10 of them. 7 of them males. Female lead had no character development because it already all happen after she died the first time so we don't really get to see it, except through flashbacks from when she's regretting her past life.

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