This has got to be the most refreshing reincarnation story I've picked up in ages. I can't count the number of times I've had to drop the phone from laughing so hard my stomach hurt, and yet even with how absolutely ridiculous and funny it can be, it still takes itself seriously and has an incredibly interesting storyline with hidden depth. I just can't decide my favorite aspect - Melissa's meme faces, her routinely going "What the f u c k?", the "male leads" discovering their hidden dominatrix kink every time Melissa beats their fucking ass and makes them grovel, Yuri being so mfn fed up w/this shit ass story she's stuck in, Yona and her bling, or Nine looking at Melissa like O.O and indulging in his newly acquired kink for head pats and Big Thick Bitches that routinely whoop wholesale ass. 10/10 story, I can't think of a single bad thing to say about this fourth wall breaking masterpiece.
I gave it my best shot. There are so few completed stories in the "fall into another world" or "reincarnation" tropes that when I saw a completed story with good reviews, I jumped on it. How this got those good reviews is just beyond me. This story reads like the cheesiest Wattpad novel I could imagine. Every line and interaction is cringe worthy, the MC is an absolute child, the love interest is grossly immature as well, the "villainess" is just as bad. It's impossible to take anything seriously due to the atrocious dialouge and lack of depth. There are other more developed stories in this trope with mature characters and storyline to spend your time on. This one just ain't it.
Absolutely! Of course, most of them aren't completed. Almost all of the best ones are still ongoing. The only completed one that I personally loved was The Reason Raeliana Ended Up At the Duke's Mansion. But here's all my favorite ongoing ones - the best one is definitely Suddenly Became A Princess One Day, then The Villainess Lives Twice, Seduce the Villains Father, & Beware of the Villainess! Now, here's a few that I personally didn't vibe with for various reasons, but are actually very popular with other people so you may enjoy them. The Abandoned Empress (complete), Doctor Elise (complete), As You Wish Princess (complete), I Became the Ugly Lady, The Black Haired Princess, & Empress of Another World.
Oh, and this isn't an isekai recommendation, but it's my current number 2 favorite manwha and it's fantasy romance so you might still like it! It's called Under the Oak Tree.
i tried soo hard to get into this story bc the plot was so interesting, and it's one of the very few reincarnation comics that are complete (looking at you, Suddenly Became A Princess One Day ) but unlike that masterpiece, this story couldn't hold a candle. For such an intense and mature beginning plot to the story, it almost immediately fell off and became flat, boring, and plain dumb. Every interaction, motivation, and scenario in this story felt childishly simple and G rated. There was no depth to anything, situations are minimal in their intricacy and complexity, character interaction is painfully cheesy and one dimensional, and the heroine, who should feel at least slightly mature as she's a grown woman in a young girls body, falls flatter than anybody. So just because she smiles in this time and speaks a little more, suddenly people are falling at her feet and she's off on some absolutely out of nowhere plot to be a... knight? God this story was painfully simple to be dragged out for 145 chapters. I'm not even mad she ended up with Ruve - it was dumb for anyone to ever assume otherwise tbh, this story was cliche asf from the first three chapters. I'm just disappointed that after such a dark and mature past life together, that could have led to some truly intense storytelling and real character growth together as a couple, that it was turned into such a childish fantasy of a story. Guess we're back to waiting for SBAPOD, this was nothing but a cheap knockoff.
Better than most reincarnation stories out there, even if it can't quite compare to something like Suddenly Became A Princess One Day. The plot was interesting enough, if drawn out at times with little to no real plot progression, but the heroine being an actual bad bitch who pulls the trigger on her own guns is amazing enough to make up for a lot. Raeliana got shit done from chapter 1 all the way until she pulled the LAST trigger. We stan a bad bitch. My only real issues with this story were that sometimes the storytelling felt... off. Rae was put in certain situations, starting with the Holy Temple, that were badly explained and so felt like you'd missed chapters or something. Situations would just suddenly be shown with little flow or context that left me as a reader feeling disconnected all of a sudden. Things that were A Big Deal according to the story fell a little flat because a lack of context or proper backstory. Over all, it's a good read, and Rae carries this story absolutely through it's flaws. Her and Noah's interactions are the cherry on top of a decent, well rounded story. Rae for empress, all hail the queen of the mfn trigger.
it was a decent story, and that's putting it nicely, certainly not as amazing as reviews made it sound, and elise was really just too perfect to be believable, even in a genre like this. but im mostly bothered by one major thing that i read the entire story waiting for an answer to and it just... never explained it.
Linden had her executed in her previous life... why? It literally just... never explained it. She kept saying she did some Big Awful Thing, and had done many other Awful Things that caused such great shame her brother had to go to war to try and restore honor to the family and shit, and then she did THE Big Awful Thing and then he fucking burned her at the stake and the story NEVER revealed why or how any of it happened. It got so caught up in perfect, do no wrong second life Elise that it just ignored her past life and what happened that was apparently so terrible.
Multiple other side plots were mentioned and then never resolved also, like the story got so busy on Mary Sue Elise that it just stopped focusing on actual plot. Linden and Elise never actually discussed him being Ron so that was a lot of plot for no real climax, her stepmother was supposed to die?? and was never addressed again, the doctor had like, two or three weirdly awkward scenes where he's just drinking and thinking about his love for Elise out of absolutely nowhere?
And lastly, there was just... no real climax to this story. It builds itself up to Elise finally like, DOING something about the "awful tragedy" and then she just, asks Linden not to do it lol? She bows sweetly and looks at him with big eyes? Then he says no and that's the end of her doing anything? After all that build up? The story felt so unresolved after the tension and the build up and this big huge thing and like, nothing happened.
Basically, it's a passable story to glance at a couple chapters at a time if you're bored, don't mind absolutely RIDICULOUS level Mary Sue heroines, and don't mind unresolved plotlines or lack of a real ending. The genre has better to offer, but I guess if you're desperate, this one will do.
Just imagine, this intricate and mature plot is what The Abandoned Empress could have been. Finally, a Tia to make up for that god awful excuse of a heroine. I have zero bad things to say about this story, and that's including the story spoilers I've read up through the ending. The plot just gets better and better, and there's no doubt the webcomic will capture everything perfectly. The first life here is interesting, our heroine started getting shit done day one in her second life, she might not be a fighter like some heroines in this trope but she gets more done than most of them combined. The love interest is ***chefs kiss***. Supporting cast is interesting, all of the various plot lines are intriguing, and I won't post spoilers but this shit gets i n t e n s e asf and dark as hell in some parts. 10/10. I put this in my personal top three after Suddenly Became A Princess One Day and before Seduce the Villain's Father.