Happiness of the the Holy Maiden’s Fresh Start
This is so watered down. The fl is terrible actually. She didn't deserve the title of staintess the first time around and her second time around reasoning is so deluded. She was so easily manipulated that I don't know how they got to be a staintess.
A Dyad of Revenge
Why are all the good ones not translated fully? looks like it was dropped
I Grabbed The Leash Of The Blind Beast
dnf at ch 18. This was a waste of my time. The art is gorgeous 10/5 stars. I cannot believe this was written by a human, it just cannot be. The Fl is so dumb. Why mislead the ml about her looks in the first place? Why did no one correct the ml when he's describing her? Of course he wouldn't know. Why did she just go on with the parents? They aren't hers, she told them she lost her memories and she didn't even go back to her employer to tell him that she had a family now and that she'd lost her memories? The art is too good for this story. I loved the ml but this is one of the worst fl's ever. The og fl seems like she's a gold digger as well, so I just cannot cannot like her either. I say the ml should find a dog and leave the lot of them and their maddness behind.
I Have Become the Heroes' Rival
17: I love this story, and I'm loving the direction it's going romancewize. I know some people will be upset that it's not the other way, but while it was teased, that relationship wasn't really reciprocated.
After finishing this, I have to say I loved it, but it could have been so much more. The plot was so rich and then, at the climax it let me down. I don't even understand why the big bad baddy was even there in the first place. He didn't really add anything to the plot that couldn't have been taken care of. The Irene situation at the end where she won't get married is disappointing, and the story made it look like it was obvious from the start, but it didn't really. Being disgusted by stalkers is different from being courted and loved by a good man. The explanation of why Irene was in this world to begin with felt lazy and everything after the climax just didn't feel like the story thus far. I'd give it a solid 3.5 if I could, but I'll give it a 4 still because it wouldn't deserve a 3. I also liked how ordinary Irene was. I love me my badass female leads but it was great to see her be ordinary, but I did want her to do more however.
Cinder's Ball
I hate stories that talk about masks, and masked ball, when it comes down to them basically wearing glasses. Come on, why can we have real masks? If not a full mask then at least half ones, that cover a good portion of the face.
Where do I begin to rate this? Should I start with the father who left his daughter pennyless, having to rely on his new wife who mistreated her? Should I start with the aunt who just magically showed up after the ball was announced? I liked the prince and his family, but the story wasn't executed very well. We didn't see the step mother after that, The step sister's all had happy endings with no real reprecussions for their past actions. How can you help rule a nation if you can't make an appropriate decision about your family?
The Duchess' 50 Tea Recipes
DNF at 11. I was reading this before but I dropped it because I wanted it to be finished before I read it, so I waited and it looks like it is done now.
I start reading and something in it irks the living crap out of me. The ml is an asshole who just left his vulnerable powerless wife to his staff to mistreat and bully. You don't have to love her to show her respect. He didn't want a wife but a womb. The plot is nonexistent, the ml comes around because of tea, new chloe will start a business and there is no set back, no competition, no drama. It's just always about tea and while that's a unique focus. It can't drive the plot. I just can't like the ml.
50
Aww Chloe is so prescious. That Duke better treat her right!
I've Become the Villainous Empress of a Novel
completed
This had all the premise of a great story that I was poised to love with a 5 star. I loved the plot, and that part was 9/10 but where it lost me was the romance. It was clearly an after thought, as I don't even know if the author wanted it and was forced by her editors or something, but it was too abrupt and subtle, and it was 3 different romances as well. Then the ending bit about her not wanting kids because of the wanting to abolish the throne. It made no applicable sense to me. I feel like her companions should have stayed just that, companions if more of a romance aspect wasn't going to develop.
She disappeared at some point, so why not have kids then?
Doctor Elise
Omg this is so good I can't put it into words. A strong fl AND a strong ml. One where we see the love and intrigue growing between them.
I wonder what happened to mil?
And why wasn't graham know more. He was a pretty good doctor too.
So the reason why elise went back was because she died and lived on as her reincarnated self that died in a flight and then as she lived her life as it was meant to be back in her original time, her reincarnated self will also continue to live on where she now meets the reincarnated linden? Well I do like timey whimey so ok.
happiness of the holy maiden's fresh start