There was, like, one kiss. And it came with the knowledge that it was their FIRST kiss which is insane. Can you imagine being married to someone for THREE YEARS and having only kissed (not to mention anything further such as consummating the marriage for example) just ONCE. Crazy.
Oh yeah, and the ending was kinda dumb.
like, i finished reading it but after a point i was just trying to power through and it was just kinda... dumb.
1. immediate isekai acceptance 2. boy mom/mama's boy 3. 'but they're just bad' as evidence 4. uhh, is there no contraception? she avoided sleeping with her husband for... years 5. kiss as poison relief 6. (i don't know why this bugged me so much but) the way they draw blankets 7. translation on names flip-flopping
she fell for him way too fast after running away. y'all can debate whether or not she was justified in running away in the first place. (i say yes because although her views were coloured too much by the og plot, it's still true that he coerced her into the engagement in the first place.) but! pre-escape she looks at him in fear and when he catches her instead of sorting anything out with him she's just immediately like *badump* oh, guess i got caught teehee. now i can never escape~♡
idk, a lot of comments already brought it up but the age vs body stuff was weird and i didn't like it. also, the cutesy smiles when it's a serious moment and she's sword-fighting. the stupidly frilly fashion for the boss fight. in a word somehow it all seemed very empty-headed.
idk, this reads like watching somebody playing with dolls. boring and plastic.
the lack of nipples distracted me a little but i understand that they probably had to get past some censorship. aside from that, damn i can't believe they had to murder that man three separate times in a row. what is he, rasputin??
i wasn't expecting the mushroom boss to just immediately bring the creepy level to the max. like, legitimately frightening.
sooo... nothing is real. the scientists were doing their whole vr play for... something? and he just pulled a whole earth out of his ass. alright, then.
the whole house thing is weird. they're like, oh no, we have no architects. the art of making buildings has been lost. so when they visit the neighbouring country they're so amazed by people having nice buildings. and, yeah, maybe nobody would have tried building anything while the crazx tyrant was on the throne. but obviously he's been dead for a while now.
........and not once in 100 years did someone say, hey, maybe we can make an offer for a builder to immigrate here? maybe we should have some of our people apprentice away for a while? maybe we should look at one of the sturdier houses and attempt to replicate it?
the last one i read that had a title about 'being a sister of whoever' ended up with the brother being the ml and i'm so glad that didn't happen here. no incest here. safe to read.
okay, after getting past the initially bad (they get better) translations, i quite liked it. 1. it was interesting that there were two regressors. the time regression wasn't explained but i'm choosing to believe it was because they were twins and had basically the same overlapping wish at the moment of their death. or at least the later translations call them twins. magical twin stuff. 2. everybody had good character motivations. 3. i especially like how bitter our main character was. how she got worn down with it. she was relatable. i've read too many stories where the main character is just, i dunno how to say, like endlessly peppy or something, a go-getter, i-give-zero-shits-so-now-it's-my-way-or-the-highway type of person. which is fine for that but it's not relatable like patrizia was for me here.
I really liked how it switched POV's for a moment in the middle to see what it looked like from his side.
this is, well, not bad i guess, but it very much feels like she moves through the storyline doing not much at all. like, taking a walk and a guy shows up to add to the plot and then she moves along and the next guy shows up for the storyline. she's just kind of there and people are bickering about her in the background.
I think this is the only transmigration work I've read where the original soul doesn't either just assimilate or disappear and i love it. Both of them are really living their best lives.
she's really raising the bar for actresses everywhere. not on the acting but must also be a horseback rider, an archery master, animal tamer, good at sleight of hand, etc.
changed my mind a few times on this. she irritated the heck out of me in the beginning with her single-track mind and then i started enjoying it as they got closer and then all of a sudden the translations and i did the side squint on that until i could enjoy it again but now with more angst and then everything devolved and turned into handwaviness and it's all bullshit.(╯°へ°)╯╧╧
i don't know how to say but this felt very wooden? might also be partially to do with the translations but all in all - art, story progression, it somehow just felt stiff.
not my girl just writing fanfic about herself and the king lol