(^^,)
hiss
I unfortunately have no idea where I was while reading this, and I don’t think the book did either. Like a certain snake, I started hibernating by the end of it.
The ending felt like one of those special deleted scenes you get in DVDs of films; roughly inserted as a “oh, we forgot to add this” entry.
The pacing… should have been better.
I do appreciate the snark of the main character - it strikes a balance between damsel in distress and damsel causing havoc.
That’s it, though, really.
You’re probably wondering why my thoughts are all over the place. That’s because that’s how the book is too.
hiss
I unfortunately have no idea where I was while reading this, and I don’t think the book did either. Like a certain snake, I started hibernating by the end of it.
The ending felt like one of those special deleted scenes you get in DVDs of films; roughly inserted as a “oh, we forgot to add this” entry.
The pacing… should have been better.
I do appreciate the snark of the main character - it strikes a balance between damsel in distress and damsel causing havoc.
That’s it, though, really.
You’re probably wondering why my thoughts are all over the place. That’s because that’s how the book is too.
bam-ba-ba-dam, shinee's back
I really liked this book. I really, really liked this book.
I'm so used to both the villainess and transmigration tropes being solely manhwa/webnovel only things (and yes, I had to figure out the difference between reincarnation, regression and transmigration), so finding out there was a western romantasy-villainess-transmigration book was exciting! (Also, yes, I know, the Venn diagram between villainess stories and transmigration stories is basically a circle.)
Anyone familiar with those tropes knows that there is a kind of formula that they all follow.
- "Where the hell am I?"
- "Hang on a minute, this wasn't in the source material!"
- "Argh, fine, I'll deviate (as if I wasn't complaining about it a few scenes ago)."
I can't lie, this book does follow the formula, but it didn't bore me at all. There were some twists and turns that I really didn't expect, but they didn't feel shoved in for sake of deviation.
I found the pacing of the flow of the book quite good, at least compared to other romantasy books; it's unfortunately too common for a romantasy book nowadays to be like a sports car in the winter: you spend 50 chapters trying to start the car, then suddenly it goes from 0-60 in 2 chapters. This book goes about balancing trying not to do that, and it tried its best at succeeding.
If you want to continue reading something like this and want a western source, try the "Oh God Not Again!" fanfic, by Sarah1281. It's on the red website.
For an eastern source, try "The Villainess Turns the Hourglass", or "Beware the Villainess!".
bam-ba-ba-dam, shinee's back
I really liked this book. I really, really liked this book.
I'm so used to both the villainess and transmigration tropes being solely manhwa/webnovel only things (and yes, I had to figure out the difference between reincarnation, regression and transmigration), so finding out there was a western romantasy-villainess-transmigration book was exciting! (Also, yes, I know, the Venn diagram between villainess stories and transmigration stories is basically a circle.)
Anyone familiar with those tropes knows that there is a kind of formula that they all follow.
- "Where the hell am I?"
- "Hang on a minute, this wasn't in the source material!"
- "Argh, fine, I'll deviate (as if I wasn't complaining about it a few scenes ago)."
I can't lie, this book does follow the formula, but it didn't bore me at all. There were some twists and turns that I really didn't expect, but they didn't feel shoved in for sake of deviation.
I found the pacing of the flow of the book quite good, at least compared to other romantasy books; it's unfortunately too common for a romantasy book nowadays to be like a sports car in the winter: you spend 50 chapters trying to start the car, then suddenly it goes from 0-60 in 2 chapters. This book goes about balancing trying not to do that, and it tried its best at succeeding.
If you want to continue reading something like this and want a western source, try the "Oh God Not Again!" fanfic, by Sarah1281. It's on the red website.
For an eastern source, try "The Villainess Turns the Hourglass", or "Beware the Villainess!".
