The Monster Princess
20 - interresting
The MC is a disturbed teenager, daughter of parents who cares little and use her for their benefit
She’s affected with a deadly disease, and she has a lot of very bad and mean thoughts
Contrary to most books, she’s not trying to reform herself, neither does she decide to become an absolute villain
Instead she goes through a very realistic adolescent crisis, cut her despondency to her toxic mum with her hair, and let her true feelings guide her
That’s where it’s good
This kid has bad feelings, bad intentions, but her heart is not yet corrupted, even when she denies it and makes herself believe she’s manipulative, she does indeed quite a few good things
Human heart abhors injustice, and so does she
Her act are small, but of weight
She doesn’t act to please, and it feels true
She’s a pretty ambiguous character, but feels like a real teenager, who given the opportunity, will act astonishingly righteously
It’s entertaining, and if doesn’t get lost in some pseudo villainy, it can be good
It Was Love at First Sight, Mr. Villain!
35 frustrating ?
I mostly love the Mc, she’s great, she’s strong willed and kind of smart
BUT, that character is damaged by a few things
First, i’m not sure many layers or prosecutors are gambling aces+ police investigators, she has quite a few things in which it is not clear how she could possibly know so much
I don’t like it, but can live with that
What I find pretty tiresome though is that she is still absolutely biased about her fiancé being the murderer
Why?
Because she read two lines in a novel and that’s mostly it
Instead of truly searching for the suspect, she is searching for ways to incriminate him
Sadly she does very little to actually piece up a puzzle that, even as a reader we can start to see
How disappointing is that ?
After she realized the forensic were wrong about the last victim, why doesn’t she revisit the cases?
She’s a prosecutor pointing her teeth at a mere suspect without any evidence, and she forgets she might be totally missing out big because of her narrative
At the minimum, we know too little about the victims : she only eyes connections with the duke, but who were they ? Who were their obvious relations ?
How come she didn’t search the background of the mysterious baker ?
Why doesn’t she follow the mystery about the free sugar ? (Obvious connection were already given
How come she doesn’t make the connection with the cortina case or the queen when so many things point towards them ?
This is already bad, but she also had to babble about her doubts towards the duke to the bodyguard ? Why then ? She already started doubting so why ?
Then obviously, at a personal level she doesn’t maintain clear boundaries and doesn’t realize her duke is jealous or that her bodyguard is growing interested in her, which ridiculously aggravates the bias towards the duke :how dumb can that be ?
how many chapters can you spend believing the guy is a terrorist or that he wants to kill her, just because he’s clueless and clumsy about relationships ? This is too much
She’s supposed to be good at asking questions, but she misses things that are so obvious, doesn’t speak her mind when she’s unwell, makes herself fainting on fake assumptions instead of simply asking questions when in doubt
Bad communication at the worst
Bad prophetic novel belief disease, maybe even worse than others as she didn’t really read the book
It feels like a waste
There’s a nice plot, the dynamic between the two didn’t need all that crap to be slow
We had no need for a second male lead with no chance from the start as his background would not allow anything
I hope to see more of the good (the mystery, the smart woman)
And less of the crap (the bad prejudices and the wrong direction with the bodyguard leading to bad romance material)
I Became the Tutor of the Royal Twins
19
Not much comment about learning methods
But both compliments type and reward are controversial (undefined compliments don’t allow the learner to know his abilities but grow dependent on others appreciation, rewards build extrinsic drive)
The Dungeon’s Time-Bound S-Rank Beauty
21 - excruciatingly boring ?
There seems to be plot, but the characters are overwritten, absolutely lack substance, there no tension and the pseudo romance is so repulsive
Noye : the obsession of one of the characters to die for the other is NOT romantic ! Grief is not a proper love offering !
I barely endured so long , but it is really tiresome
The characters are living in their own bubble, because « it’s a dungeon « , they don’t mind killing rosters of people because « it’s a dungeon « , it feels like they are playing a video game with their surroundings : isn’t that disturbing ?
Monochrome Rumor
33 well written
My Younger Sister Was a Genius
52 - now, that’s something i nearly skipped due to the title, but it’s excellent
I’m not sure there’s much interest to the rebirth thing ?
At least there’s not plagiarizing the future or filling a bank account with random investments, in the same manner, despite knowing who’s going to be famous and planning to get friends with them, in reality encounters are just natural
It feels nice and entertaining
The Part-Time Land of the Gods