eishin's manga / #Royalty(9)

AMAZING. The art, the story, also thay beautiful family portrait at the end, left me feeling all giddy inside after the 100+ chs of reading. It's not perfect and there are parts of the story that I wish would've been done differently. I wish instead of dwelling on that "twist" at the end with Oscar/Louis, we could've just focused more on developments with Sir Raya and Gracie, or maybe Carnelia and Caesar's Family. I wish we saw more of there post-coronation family life because the 4 side stories doesn't cut it for me *sobs* Still, I think this is a pretty solid read and I would recommend it, it's also quite high if I rate it when it comes to my willingness to reread.

Romance is moving quite fast but I'm not complaining lmao

THAT CLIFFHANGER URGHHH HOW COULD YOU END THE SEASON LIKE THAT *CRIES* Edit: the note says it's gonna get spicy, merry christmas to me ig because YES I'VE BEEN THINKING SPICY SCENES WOULD MAKE THIS SM BETTER

I didn't read the epilogue for reasons you probably already know. They did Arhen so dirty. The title says the "twins" new life but somehow it ended up as only Arienne's new life. I'm not totally opposed to romance per se in stories like this, I just wish it wasn't the guardian that ended up being her love interest. Because in the first place Arhen was the one who had more imperial blood than his sister, but he's being shoved aside by the guardian (he was so excited about meeting this guy btw, like Arienne couldn't even feel her connection with this guy properly when they first met) since now his sister and guardian are in love. Arhen even had to give them the space for their relationship to progress, what is up with that development? The favoritism isn't even subtle because it feels as if Arhen just doesn't exist in the story anymore. He deserves his happiness too, him and Arienne suffered together from both this life and their previous one. But in the end the author decided to give everything to Arienne, leaving Arhen with nothing in return for his sacrifices and battles he fought. Wish we could've just gone the route where the twins would travel to places together like they initially planned at the beginning of the story, it was that bond between them that drew me in to reading this in the first place.

This turned out to be darker than I expected it would be. Sangyul went through so much hardship, he truly deserved to have someone like Reok by his side. They make each other feel complete so what more can I ask for? It's quite refreshing to find this gem where the seme is a green flag within the sea of red for omegaverse alphas, both of them need big hugs from what they had to go through to survive in life so I'm so happy seeing that wedding scene at the end (and the babies too from the author's twt QwQ). Something else that I really liked from this story was how we were showed the effects of trauma on Sangyul and how he slowly got the courage to find himself again through the support of the people around him. The only gripe I have about this would be the pacing. It got a bit wonky towards the end where it felt as if there's still so much to unpack but only a small number of chapters left to go through. After completing the whole thing though, the way it ended didn't feel too abrupt. I wouldn't have minded seeing more fluff between Sangyul and Reok + married life too but oh well.

Interesting premise and could've been a much longer story, I'm not even going to talk about the R and SA because a lot of this plot already doesn't make much sense :') Honestly, the knight feels like the best choice out of the three of them. The red-head is a red flag while the duke (was Elle's husband before he decided to off himself because of the alpha-beta situation that they had) also had some faults during the first "timeline." I get that it's difficult for him to control his alpha instincts during his rut but him touching omegas happened so much to the point that he knocked one up. Couldn't he have done something about his stupid relatives when he isn't in his rut? I don't know, it felt super neglectful regardless of how much he loved Elle as his husband. Anyways, it's decent but could've really have a more explored plot.