I'm here after reading the first volume of the novel. Having read the first volume and now part of the manga adaptation, I can't help feel like this is a combination of XXXoholic and Jigoku no Shojou (Hell Girl). Random people with issues showing up at a strange home, getting advice, ignoring said advice, an investigation, and then being sent to Hell for not repenting their actions.
I'll read more, but I need the manga artist to look at the novel rendition of the MC because he way more beautifully depicted in the novel verses the manga.
I kinda like the story, but I have so many issues with the ML (and others) in it.
1. Your wife goes to an interview and disappears. You can't locate her for days and when you do find her and she doesn't remember the date -- you just yell at her and not investigate it??
2. FL returns home with a serious mark on her wrist, husband doesn't notice it, but the maids and doctor should have and none of them decide to inform their master about it??
3. FL is sent to a monastery. Accompanying servants see the condition of the room she is to live in and none of them report back to their master about it?? They just keep quiet?? Allowing the FL to get sick and almost die. Great. -_-
4. ML and FL divorce. But ML despite being drunk doesn't even think over the reason the divorce was brought up?? Not even the next day when he was sober?? He's not concerned at all??
5. Andrei -- who are you really?? You leave your cushy job working at the mansion to work at a start-up company that may or may not succeed?? Plus explain your strength and athleticism which is unheard of for someone who was a bookkeeping steward. Are you a spy??
6. Spying -- why does the ML seem to be keeping tabs on his ex-wife that he shows up at all the places she is at or going to be at?? If he doesn't trust her or believe her why is he still involving himself in her life?? From his own admission he didn't really love her.
7. Trust -- ML doesn't trust or believe her story about her missing memory, but he's witnessed her memory issues multiple times and he STILL doesn't think it's worth investigating what really happened during her royal interview!!
I have a few more gripes, but those are my main ones. This ML is useless. Completely useless and I'm glad that FL divorced him. (Anyhoo, Isaac, you need a wife and I shall volunteer to be it. ^_^ )
FL should do what the sword said and send her nephew out of the Void of Miasma after teaching him all he needs to know and getting him a replacement gift.
And the nephew should leave that place and help clean up his aunt's reputation. Then he should yell at his parents about allowing his aunt's reputation to be dragged through the mud after her noble sacrifice...for both of them!!
Because there's no way I'm gonna accept that the nephew is the ML. He's basically the consolation prize that the author prepared since FL couldn't be with her crush. Her nephew is a carbon copy of his father!! The man she loved and the man that sent her to her potential death!! Why would the author think this relationship is a good idea?! And I haven't gotten to the pseudo-incest part of this bad idea. The FL has recognized him as her nephew, the son of her adopted sister and her former crush -- she shouldn't ever be looking at him as a love interest. Ugghhh!!
I wish Evelina could have stayed in her body and had the joyful ending. But at least she was able to seek revenge on the clergy that abused her and for those who came before her. Although, I was searching for a true saintess who became disillusioned and corrupted that she turned bad, but still maintained her position as the protagonist; this one almost came close to it.
Authors just can't let a bad girl be bad without turning them into a villainess, or if they remain the main character, they have to have switched transmigrated souls with a pure and virginal person. Balance, I guess.
Lina spent 6 years searching for Aslan along with Latan and she didn't get pregnant again?? Funny.
My hunt continues for a true doctrine weary dark Saintess.
Story score: 1-star.
I was totally waiting for a Saintess who went to the dark-side after being betrayed and killed and then regressing. I got none of that!! >_< I even thought the Monsignor would be part of the dark-side to help her achieve her revenge since she didn't remember him from the first time line. Wasted opportunity.
Then I thought Abigail would be a fighter!! Just flat out scream: "I'm not the Saintess!!" and then punch that dude in the face during her first public meeting. Didn't happen. (Perhaps that's just me and how I would do it.)
Anyway, this was a tedious story about a Mother Goddess who could interfere but doesn't due to her trying to teach an, later apologetic, angel a lesson about getting too arrogant.
To be honest, this story was hard to get into for me and I almost dropped it several times. I stuck around because the humor was absolutely funny and kept me turning pages. The plot not so much as I was able to discern much of the reveals before the official story revelations. (Probably by reading so much of this genre.) However by chapters 65 or 70 the story started getting really interesting and finally grabbed my full attention. Usually I drop stories after about 10 or so chapters if they can't interest me or at least make me rage-read it.
BUT...like I said the plot has picked up significantly and I'm down for it!! My guess: Tez17 isn't actually the real 17th Tez due to the Save Point disk. I don't know if he's right before Reed or after Reed, but he's definitely not #17.
Now back to the latest chapter as I join my fellow readers in unison: 'Dat demon girl has looked in her last mirror for messing with Bia. She'll have to lament her regrets as she is bathed in a raging pool of the the hottest Damnation Hellfire...of the Holy kind.
Interesting first couple of chapters, but then nothing but smut the rest of the way. No real plot development. Waste of my time.
The summary drew me in, so I started reading it with a few expectations that were quickly debunked. I guess my expectations were too high, because I barely liked anything about this story. The one thing that I truly liked was the rapist wasn't the father in the main story, but that joy was only shortlived as the rapist in the side couple was the father.
While I was happy the prosecutor (rapist 1) wasn't the father, I couldn't help but hope he and the other Alpha would come to an agreement and form an unconventional family unit with the feisty little Omega. Oh, well.
Taesoo/Philip & Alejandro (rapist 2) -- Honestly they didn't interest me and I skimmed many of the chapters where they were the main focus. I will say this: Taesoo was a horrible guard. It would have made much more sense if he had joined the prison as a counselor.
I would have preferred spending much more time on a secondary couple if it was the other former juvie Omega who was also an omega chaser.
Lastly: What idot penal system administrator thought locking up omegas and alphas together was a great idea?? It's no different than having females and males share the same prison. Ridiculous!! And don't come at me with it's for the omegas' heat and the alphas' rut. That's why there's suppressants, analgesics, or anesthetics medications. Or if you want to get vulgar give them some lube a dildo or a flesh tube!! Not access to each other!! I don't care how much money the warden was saving; it's irresponsible of the penal system to allow them to use each other for sexual relief.
Current rating: 2 stars.
Okay, a partial lie. It is time regression, but she was never abducted, instead she chose to marry the Northern Grand Duke. Anyway, I was on the verge of dropping this story, when the plot finally decided to make itself interesting.
I do like the double regression part although I wondered why they regressed from different starting points??
Hopefully, Isabella is still alive somehow, but a part of me believes she was sacrificed for black magic.
I wonder if it will be revealed that FL is a descendent of Elves and that's why her hair is pink.
Honestly, I'm more interested in the story behind the guild leader Astin and the 1st (??) Zackadorian prince.
Don't know why this was pulled from my "Already Read" list, but I got an update on it, so I decided to take another glance at it. And, yeah, I now remember why I dropped this one, I can't stand the ML-esper at all. I was glad when he didn't go the route of hurting another esper just to get the guide, but then he went downhill.
I like guideverse stories. And I know that part of a guides duties can range from a single touch to sexual intercourse. However, I like ones where there is some kind of balance between the partners and they gradually get to that level without the usage of coercion, force, or blackmail to achieve it. Otherwise, it's just another form of rape.
This story would have been so much better without that aspect. A haughty esper and a headstrong guide -- both powerful as they fight against and for each other.
When I dropped this one, I gave it a 1-star rating. That rating still stands, but I might pull this one from the trash to see if I'm inclined to follow it to its end.
Is this story predictable?? Yes!! But it is really fun!!
I like how Zeke/Sieg despite being reincarnated still treats his descendants with care and encourages them. Even to the ones who were his enemies they, too, are gaining valuable insight on how to get stronger along with life healing lessons. Also I like how he treats them as kids during his life lessons only to have it pointed out that he, too, is still just a child. ^_^ But they still take his lessons to heart.
While I'm looking forward to the time skip, I do hope we spend a little time watching Zeke battle the dragons and grow stronger.
And I hope after the time skip, we finally get introduced to Zeke's siblings, and see how powerful they are being direct descendants of the current Head. I thought Laika was his half-sister, but later chapters make it seem like she's just a cousin.
It was love for Lu Feng the second he saw An Zhe. His intuition and his heart were battling at that first meeting, that's why he ordered the genetic testing done. He wanted to appease both sides of himself. Then he kept "coincidentally" crossing paths with An Zhe basically to make sure his claim on him was known to all.
Change my mind!!