I’ll Use This Do-over to Become the Ideal Lady’s Maid!

3.5⭐

This is a decent book, but only if you know what it's actually about. The premise is that our main character, Emma, gets thrown back in time and decides that this time, she's going to go for the childhood dream she had to give up on before: become a lady's maid. For once, it's not a time reset story caused by a tragic event. It is actually due to the power of time travel.

Despite that, the main portion of the story isn't about Emma's training to be a lady's maid. It's about romance and Emma trying to break off the engagement to her cheating fiancé. Also school life, in the sense that the majority of the book takes place in a school because we don't really get to see actual lessons outside of tea reheating. There's a lot of time skips, so all the development felt super rushed. Emma just grew close to Glen, the love interest, after one sentence saying they became close friends. She mastered maid skills after the story skips the majority of the school year. She secured employment after meeting a character for the first time. Her former best friend who had an affair with her fiancé? Redeemed in a single scene. The relevancy of her close friends who are not Glen also fades away really fast, since the story highlights the main couple for the most part. The rest are just glossed over.

That being said, I'm not sure if this would've benefited from more volumes. I feel like it could be better if the author spends more time on... pretty much everything outside of the main couple, but it also feels like it would've been a solid standalone if only it didn't try to tackle all these issues only to easily resolve them, then quickly shove them away and go back to the romance.

I also have the author's other series in my TBR, but now I need to do some research before starting to make sure I know what I'm getting into. This is by no means a terrible book. Just not what I thought it'd be.