Finished and Reviewed Novels 2
Finished and Reviewed Novels 2
Novels I have finished reading and reviewed. List is just in order the are read. I do have a tendency towards isekai and romance stories with a fair smattering of smut. I try to be specific and point out what I genuinely like or dislike.
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Created: Jan 21st, 2023, Updated: Feb 4th, 2024
Created Jan 21st, 2023
Updated Feb 4th, 2024
336 Chapters Every 404.6 Day(s) 9665 Readers 220 Reviews 07-26-2017
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I freaking LOVE this novel! I'm not sure if my favorite character is Jiang Muye or Lu Jiangli or Little Treasure, but all of... more>>
102 Chapters Every 16.4 Day(s) 1562 Readers 13 Reviews 09-06-2023
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Mostly reiterate everything lellian_lilly said, especially about the brother Valore getting such a raw deal. I honestly really liked this story. It's the typical MC... more>>
1 Chapters Every 689 Day(s) 697 Readers 2 Reviews 06-01-2022
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✩ I actually read the manga adaptation of this first, so I knew what was going on. The story is very cute, but the snu... more>>
1 Chapters Every 687 Day(s) 626 Readers 3 Reviews 06-03-2022
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✩ CUTE - goes along with I Would Like To Refuse but told from Cain's perspective instead of Charlotte. Tells more about how they met... more>>
127 Chapters Every 32.3 Day(s) 4174 Readers 15 Reviews 04-14-2024
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This turned out to be NOT what I was expecting. I have to admit I loved that it was shorter than most of the... more>>
190 Chapters Every 25.1 Day(s) 3846 Readers 24 Reviews 04-26-2023
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ WOW THE ANGST! I ADORE that Ellie doesn't forgive Raymond until the very end - it's so much more realistic and satisfying that the ML... more>>
0 Chapters Every 74.5 Day(s) 2835 Readers 8 Reviews N/A
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Okay, so the smut isn't amazing or anything, but the story is REALLY good bout how it deals with DV, SA, and child abuse.... more>>
20 Chapters Every 149.6 Day(s) 8438 Readers 48 Reviews 03-12-2018
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This was surprisingly good, and as another reviewer said it's not cliche, there's character maturity and growth, the plot twists aren't ridiculous and exaggerated,... more>>
84 Chapters Every 37.3 Day(s) 2052 Readers 19 Reviews 10-23-2022
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ *IMPORTANT* - someone wrote a short fanfic as a comment on the last chapter and it's BRILLIANT. Wraps the whole thing up beautifully.This story... more>>
167 Chapters Every 37.3 Day(s) 3098 Readers 27 Reviews 10-16-2022
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This novel ended up not being what I thought it would be at ALL. The plot unfolded more slowly and deliberately than I thought... more>>
210 Chapters Every 3.9 Day(s) 4687 Readers 42 Reviews 08-13-2020
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Unpopular opinion - this incredibly slow burn romance is actually exceptionally well written in regards to trauma and how it affects people and, by definition, NOT in*est. It was actually incredibly common in Europe and India (that I know of) for noble couples who were engaged to be raised together to strengthen family alliances - Hari is adopted and Arina is their sister who passed away. Hari is incredibly twisted mentally because of her original childhood and feels that she can't trust Eugene, Cabel, and Erich with anything because of their lashing out and blaming her in their grief - and the readers might also have been clueless about what was really going on... more>>
166 Chapters Every 36.1 Day(s) 2791 Readers 17 Reviews 11-28-2022
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This one was SO ADORABLE! There were some twists I REALLY did not see coming, but the sweet interactions between Beryllia and Rixus are so incredibly heartwarming it's not even funny. This novel is SO FLUFFY! I do want to reiterate and agree with everything Bluebells in Bloom said in their review - there are some clumsy political situations and worldbuilding, and the plot DOES slow down in the middle, but the beginning is amazing and the end is that snowball-rolling-down-the-mountain-unstoppable-drawing-you-in-rush that I LOVE. Extra points to Rixus for doing the work of finding out about Beryllia's trauma and then actually DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT. Some of these ML's could trip over the bar... more>>
43 Chapters Every 3.8 Day(s) 950 Readers 5 Reviews 04-03-2023
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This one had a VERY unreliable narrator, and it was very well done. I had to go back and reread chapters to figure out... more>>
72 Chapters Every 41.1 Day(s) 4772 Readers 72 Reviews 04-16-2024
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I shamelessly loved this one. If you are sick of the isekai romances where the FL swoops in and her protagonist halo makes everything just fall in line unrealistically and everything is just too darn easy, this one is for you. ... more>>
24 Chapters Every 45 Day(s) 3763 Readers 41 Reviews 03-05-2023
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ and I'm honestly confused about why this one isn't rated higher - it's genuinely one of the best novels I've read. The story is complicated and layered (and much MUCH grimmer than I was expecting), and while it does follow the typical died-and-woke-up-in-the-past-before-everything-went-pear-shaped there are some interesting differences. The world is in a state of eternal war, humans against these mutated demonic creatures. Our MC has the power of purification, but because of the influences in the past she was misunderstood and not powerful enough as a child to sufficiently purify her surroundings, which is part of why her "sister" was able to manipulate everything to her advantage. The sister is a complete... more>>
126 Chapters Every 31.1 Day(s) 3465 Readers 24 Reviews 02-27-2023
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Also confused why this one isn't rated higher. I unapologetically loved this one. The translation was excellent as always (Bluebells in Bloom is one of my FAVORITE translation teams because not only is the TL always really good the comments are HILARIOUS. It always takes me longer to read their stuff because I get caught up in the conversations and it's always a blast. ... more>>
98 Chapters Every 5.5 Day(s) 2228 Readers 9 Reviews 04-18-2024
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I spent an ENORMOUS amount of time wanting to smack the Iris, og FL REALLY REALLY HARD. She's just DUMB. She can TELL the plot has changed and refuses to adapt to her new situation, unlike the new FL. Rosetta, the new FL, is a very reasonable person - she knows that she is completely trapped by the circumstances in the story, and no one ever believes her (which does come back to bite them later). Upon realizing that there is literally no way to get out of her situation (she tries finding a job, moving, etc, but with no support from her family and no one believing her side of the story, she... more>>
138 Chapters Every 35.1 Day(s) 2355 Readers 15 Reviews 12-09-2022
67 Chapters Every 40.3 Day(s) 2665 Readers 17 Reviews 12-08-2022
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ BRING TISSUES YOU WILL NEED THEM. Once again confused by low reviews but I think it's also people who read only the first few... more>>
17 Chapters Every 43.5 Day(s) 463 Readers 6 Reviews 07-17-2022
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ BUT I HATED IT. ... more>>
155 Chapters Every 54 Day(s) 2331 Readers 18 Reviews 03-03-2022
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✩ I rated this one a 4, but it's really more of a 3.5 or 3.75. This one was frustrating to read. The translation was... more>>
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Honorable mention - I finished Follow The Breadcrumbs / Raised and Eaten before # 43, I met the Male Lead in Prison - quite good, the TL was from IceDrive (the link is in a bunch of the spoiler forums, and I don't own the drive so I'm not comfortable posting the link here) - story was about a 4.5, that low because the TL was iffy in areas, but that's also mostly because Korean doesn't distinguish between gender and that can make it tough to understand who is speaking and to whom. There's a manhwa as well that's called Follow the Breadcrumbs.
Good story - very cute. Dense FL, yandere-leaning ML, lots of fun pulling in classic fairy tales and for me the fun was spotting the fairy tale reference. Rose was possibly my favorite character - she's SO CRANKY - and I loved how they wove together prejudice against ethnic groups, politics, and how it affects the lives of people. Hansel was adorable as a kid and powerful as an adult, and Gretel is cute and energetic throughout. she's a GREAT little sister. Elle (Yielle in the manhwa) is dense but adorable, but more than anything else she makes SENSE as a sympathetic character. She's kind but doesn't want to be, she knows that as a witch she needs to hide her presence but she can't bear to abandon Hansel and Gretel, and she cares deeply and genuinely about the people around her. Andelov is a great tragic villain - much more villainous in the beginning, and I wish there was a better resolution for him. All in all an excellent series.