I'm so in the same boat as you, I started reading it thinking it was for shits and giggles only, I really thought that it would proceed to be a silly comedy of her trying to remember what book she was in. But man I was wrong, this was really SO PEAK. Suddenly the story started forming, the lore intensifying. I love that in this story we can get in deeper about the actual human residing in the new body. I hate how most of these stories are just like "Oh, I'm in a new body in the dream world story of mine and I know it all!" And then we never hear about her previous life or how did she get there in the first place. But here we can see the clear distortion of body and mind of the main character as Elena, she doesn't feel like she belongs there, she feels like she's an outsider, she starts seeing the world as more than just a "dreamplace", we see her struggle in her past life and her difficulties into adapting. The philosophy or life, the critics on the modern daily life. This was a fucking masterpiece.
I also love how Klaus was fully aware that the person in that body wasn't Elena. It always had pissed me off the way most of those male characters fall for the MC, but never fully for them because they don't know she's a person from another world. But prince Klaus was fully aware all that time and genuinely fell in love with the MC, not Elena, he fell in love with the girl that was talking to him, her soul, and honestly I can't even start to describe how beautiful that is.
The story was amazing, the development of the world, the problems, the characters.
Man I didn't had a good read like this in quite a while.
Honestly I didn’t think I would love this so much but now it feels like I don’t love it enough
A beyond beautiful writing, an almost magical story telling and characters that feel so perfect they almost don’t feel human yet it feels right.
I also loved how they acknowledged things, the cliches, the overpowered characters and the cringy scenes, it really felt like seeing someone who is from our universe and got into another, her ways of acting, thinking and perceiving the world around her is totally romanticized but it fits her as a character, she changed in a lot of ways during the manhwa but she still felt like the same character, that is peak character development.
The Prince omg, the patience that man has really comes from the divine, the amount of times I found myself pitting that poor man who really wanted to cherish MC but was friendzoned and just soft rejected throughout what felt almost all the manhwa lol, he deserves to be as jealous and as clingy as he wants.
The “backstory characters” honestly I don’t think there wore a lot, in the sense that all the characters were so well developed and loved, it was amazing, sometimes I felt like oh character X hasn’t appeared in a while, did author forget about them? And then boom next chapter they are mentioned in some way, it really shows how much love and passion was put into the story.
Overall I think it’s amazing, a peak story that Im happy I went ahead and gave it a try, cause I won’t lie I saw the cover and the description and thought it was gonna be just another crappy copie of the same used story, but NO! And Im so happy about it, so if you are in doubt about giving it a try? I totally recommend you to do it! 10/10 hit and I’ll be back when the sides (if there are) are released!