The Way to Protect the Female Lead's Older Brother
The art is dazzling. I like the FL because compared to other manwha protagonists, she is quite ruthless. But all the other characters (such as her family members) are all assholes. I guess it’s to be expected because it’s a villain household. The plot is a little senseless. I don’t understand how FL’s family believed that Cassis was dead for 3 years. And from what I remember, FL wants to save ML so she could save herself from being killed by ML’s sister or something (I’m not going to bother rereading it). I think ML has stock holmes syndrome, how did he fall in love with a family member of someone who kidnapped AND tortured him? I understand that Roxana is supposedly ‘the most beautiful’ person in the world but shouldn’t he have some grudges at least? I find it a little boring, but I’m still hooked and I want to find out how it ends.
Under the Oak Tree
Wow, it’s horrible. There really was no base plot in the beginning. ML comes to take FL from her abusive home and then they make love for the rest of the time… and that’s it. FL is always fucking anxious and whiny but never does anything to improve the situation. At first, I thought that her anxiousness was cute and in someway, relatable. But now it’s fucking obnoxious and in every chapter, she’s complaining or worried about how she’s not good enough for ML. There’s also never enough communication between the two of them and it’s clear that ML really doesn’t understand the trauma that FL went through. There’s no plot and all of the characters are very dull. I hate how there are no conflicts, the servants of the new castle should not be as welcoming as they are to our FL. And now all their relationship problems are ‘resolved’ with smut and unconditional love. And the smut scenes aren’t even good. It’s stupid af. The art is nice, I just wish there was more to the story.
I Became the Daughter-In-Law of the Villain Because I'm Terminally Ill!
Another mediocre and typical cliche isekai story. The pacing was fucked up from the beginning. The female lead reincarnates into a novel and is immediately ‘rescued’ by this dumb duke that’s her future father in-law. There’s no in-depth context, the reader immediately jumps into the story. The title says that the female lead becomes the daughter of a villain. But he doesn’t seem so villain-like at all, he’s bland as heck. I expected more evilness from him. The male lead left a bad impression on me within 2 seconds of his appearance. He’s the dumb emotionless type that suddenly cares for some random ass girl. Can we get a male lead that doesn’t have black hair and red eyes, please? He’s not even shocked after hearing that he’s married. Was he born without a personality? The female lead is really, really annoying. She treats everything as if it’s a joke and brushes off her illness like it’s nothing. It says that she’s terminally-ill with lung disease but she only coughs up blood. It almost seems as if the illness has no effect on her despite her coughing up blood every now and then. It doesn’t make any sense. “Women get pregnant after holdings hands with their lover in bed.” Wow, I think the author is delusional. Plot is basically nonexistent. It’s shit.
Isn’t Being A Wicked Woman Much Better?
This is surprisingly exceptional. Although it has a typical plot of a Korean who ended up being a victim to Truck-kun, the main character still manages to serve her purpose as a villainess. In MC’s previous life, she was quite gullible and frankly.. an NPC, so I’m quite glad that she has isekai’d into her new villainess life, as Lady Deborah. The story is already predictable from the get-go: MC will get revenge on her enemies, start new businesses ideas that she stole from the novel, and then fall in love with one of the male leads. But, there are only 20 chapters, I look forward to what the author has in store. I was a bit surprised at the world-building system as there is magic-use among characters (Wizards, mages). It’s rather rudimentary. Like, you can turn energy into a sphere by measuring the circumference of a circle.. So in other words, the use of magic is built around Math. And Deborah happens to excel at Math, because she was an engineering major in her past life. You know, I applaud there being any world-building system at all, even if it’s a lazy one that the author created in two seconds. It’s annoying seeing everything turn up in Deborah’s favor. She IS a bitter villainess with many enemies yet somehow she is able to get everything she wants? It would’ve turned out more interesting if the heroine, Mia Binoche, got the pink diamond instead. I want to SEE Deborah struggling to stay alive and fighting for herself. “The Evil Villainess” is a very diluted term in the Shoujo community. The only one I consider an “Evil Villainess” is Medea from Your Throne. Cunning, powerful, and unmoving. Deborah certainly isn’t that. Whenever Deborah is meeting someone who is defying her, I want them to be scared for their life. Like truly afraid. It’s not enough for her to put up this cold and rude personality. Sometimes I hate isekai because of that, because you can’t make a strong villainess as they’ll just use their knowledge from the novel. It ends up being cliche and results in some dumb romance trope. I’m quite interested in Mia Binoche, the supposed reincarnation of a Saintess, but there seems to be more to her. I think Mia is going to become a problem for Deborah. You know, cause Heroine and Villainess don’t go well together. I tagged this as drama, so I hope the drama won’t disappoint. Lastly, I want to praise the art. It’s important to make intricate and individualistic characters. Deborah’s design is truly beautiful. Red eyes and lavender hair. Hopefully, the translations keep up with the consistency.
The Maid and the Vampire