somnia's manga / #Interesting(167)

MC got isekai'd into a shitty romance novel as the villainess and instead of adapting to the world, she seeks to leave it behind no matter the cost. The premise of the story's unique, the execution is good as well. An interesting perspective that is executed well imo. And there's also a bunch of other concepts like witches and fates that have a unique twist. Also love that the original heroine isn't made out to be the MC's (aka the villainess') main opponent, but still has a complicated relationship with her... they all have interesting relationships with each other. *Chef's kiss*

85/ Hilise is the illegitimate child of the Inoaden family and lived through 7 lives, where she is killed by her own family and experiences betrayal over and over again. You know her family is absolute dogshit when one of the popular tags is "trashy stupid family" and so on. The story starts in her 8th (or 7th? somewhere around that) jump back into the past and is the point where she snaps and stops giving a damn about everyone and everything. Her main focus is to find a way to stop the constant time reversals while slapping away the obstacles which stand in her way. Honestly, the drama here is good. But I feel like the number of reincarnations it took for Hilise to get to this point is a bit too much. Either that or it would've been better not to have her just remember every detail of all lives right from the start. It makes her look like an idiot, and that kind of starts to infect the rest of the plot. I felt so much "Why did this have to happen?"-energy when reading some parts, just asking myself why the hell she wasn't able to at least semi-calmly gtfa from her family at an earlier point. Anyway, the drama here is good. I feel Season 1 Hilise is playing up the slay sis vibes more (and maybe she's a tad inconsistent) than the Hilise after that. Now her duality and the struggle to keep her heart closed and cold are clearly shown off. The lore and world building are also interesting, though most of the time all that just doesn't feel like this takes place in a... place, if that makes sense. I don't have a clue where their mansions are located, nor the King's Palace or this counsil archive thing I forgot the name of. We don't get to see what is where in relation to one another. It's very unnoticable while reading but to me, personally, it makes my reader's perspective feel even slimmer than it already is. It's a tad discomforting for me, not gonna lie. Other than that everything from her last7 or so lives to future events seem to be planned out really well, can't wait for future chapters.