I seriously love the unabashed chaotic vibe.
The crown prince is WEIRDLY EFFECTIVE (meaning: he's weird, and effective, and both at the same time is EVEN WEIRDER and even THAT works out somehow to be effective)
The girls are just. So lovable.
Freya's mom is just inspirational.
Freya's dad is a weirdly pathetic coward who for once isn't painted as villain in overdrive, just a gutless man without discerning eye and even WORSE: wallowing in self-pity. Which is why I very much loved the prince an freya cornering him lovingly and respectfully and without an ounce of mercy after Freya's mom instilled the everloving fear of annihilation in him. (DESERVED.)
1. Simone is great.
2. She's totally right about unbreakable glasses
3. Give her that scythe. She earned it and by now I am VERY interested to see what ELSe she might put that scythe to.
It's so funny to me how we got from all those tangled tropes to the heart of "they ship-of-theseused-my-husband, what to do?"
And like, in the center of this extremely fluffy story you got a..
dun-Dun-DUN
necromancer.
Level 1.
~*wafting flower*
Alright already, but please point me in the direction of the "protagonist name generator" writers keep using. It's apparently of thing of beauty.
Schmille. What do you have to do to get "Schmille"
This guy is taking "emotionally constipated" to new heights.
He's about to reach the equivalent to "paralysis of the bowels".
Now look here my guy, even your "socialized by potatoes"-dragon can follow his base instincts whole-heartedly.
As a boss, I think he's rather useless.
Being a boss entails (in my opinion) that you don't need to know the tiny details, but you need to know about the things happening. If you delegate work (which is "how to boss 1.1") then you also need to be aware of capacity, resources and distribution. If you're the BOSSboss, then you need to have someone assisting you who can go distribute your orders into actual feasible actions.
He's micromanaging her due to trust issues AND also overworking her because amidst all that micro-managing he still has no idea what she's actually doing.
If he dares to hide behind "You should have told me if its too much" or "you should have managed yourself better" I swear I'm gonna climb into this story and kick his ass.
HE was testing her day after day. HE was spitting provocations and putting pressure on her with deadlines. HE let it get this bad under his watch. HE was no trustworthy boss.
And yes, sometimes you get to a point where you need to fix everything as soon as possible, so you can only crunch it with the power of coffee, stubbornness and sheer willpower.
Put the duke into the closet a few more times and he'll start to like it.
They second prince is slowly getting the hang of things, I guess. How to deal with the mayhem, I mean.
And for once I can't quite tell what I should wish for Evelyn (the OG, I guess): that she crosses the border to possibly meet some MORE NORMAL people, or that she just finds some peace right where she is
How much "suspension of disbelief" is necessary?
Roughly all of it.
I think this is the first heroine that goes "once more, with feeling and less dying" just to see her kid again after time rewind.
Same, honestly.
My man is his own worst enemy.
And I don't believe - not for one second! - that this guy can keep his sanity in any capacity. Whatever he accomplished BEFORE seems to have vanished like snow in the sun. Now he's just a lunatic with a grudge and cherished panties with a dreadful amount of authority.
Also hilariously love-sick.
As of ch. 7 I can't even tell who I am rooting for, anymore
Do I want them to leave, and let the fools deal with the consequences of their own greedy decision? I pity the people who had no hand in getting there, but these two deserve their own happiness as well.
Do I want them to stay and lose their window of opportunity to see the world, just as they dreamed of?
One fine day I'll encounter a villain named "Miserére" because another Writer flipped through a medical Lexicon and stopped randomly to choose names
Her going "my, how beautiful" as he rips the divorce papers into confetti is just about the energy of this whole story.
"procrastinated delivering these papers for a whole month and now look at them go"
At this point I'm guessing "that old hag" was his teacher, intending to teach him that he might be a great mage, but also a great unfeeling ass with much room for improvement.
Which won't ever happen if he can just snap his fingers, so a curse it is.
Look, my guy, there's nothing strange about nothing.
anyone anywhere anytime would fall for victoria.