Novel Catchup
The last thing 40-year-old project manager Tori Felix remembered was scrolling through a wiki... Read more
The last thing 40-year-old project manager Tori Felix remembered was scrolling through a wiki article about a dating sim game franchise while on the shinkansen. Then she was hurled forward to the sound of metal creaking, the smell of smoke, and was knocked out.When Tori woke, she was in a lavish four poster bed with a splitting headache and in the bruised teenage body of a Marquis' arrogant daughter from the popular dating sim "The Romance of Soleil". Problem #1: There is a possibility she's dead in her world. This meant she couldn't meet up with her friends. Also, her tickets to Universal Studios were useless now.Problem #2: This body may be young, but weaker than her original. And where were her boobs?Lastly, Problem #3: She now inhabited the body of Victoria de Guevera; the villainess of "The Romance of Soleil" whose final ending, according to the wiki article, was a violent death at the hands of sex slavers. With just a few weeks before the heroine and the villainess collide, there is no time for an existential crisis. Tori took a deep breath, closed her eyes, and whispered her personal mantra: "Assess the situation, then make a plan of action. You don't want to die like a b-tch." Collapse
Female Protagonist, Sword And Magic, Transmigration, Aristocracy, Otome Game, Weak to Strong, Medieval
This is no romance novel despite it being a female MC. Sure, she had to deal with infatuated teens, but she did so kindly and outright stated her intentions to be just friends.The world building in the novel was amazing, I liked how the empire she was in was put together. The only weak point was a notable lack of respect towards the nobility. It seems lesser nobles and commoners got away with being rude or outright aggressive towards high nobility without any consequence for their actions, which doesn't make sense. Why would that system of government hold together or anyone observe the social protocols in that case.Striking a person for any reason was unlawful. I'm thinking it was similar to modern day British isles. They have nobility, but people could disrespect them and there is little the nobility could do about it. It just doesn't make sense for a culture in the medieval period to allow such freedom. How could they enforce discipline in an Empire in more or less perpetual war on and off with a neighbor for hundreds of years?The MC put up with a lot of trash in this novel without becoming mean about it herself. She got revenge for slights and trouble in more subtle ways. She just didn't overreact to things - she was incredibly wealthy and there was little trouble she couldn't fix with money or her position. The MC didn't resort to permanently destroying the lives of teenagers she put it because of school arguments. In truth, all of them repented of their actions eventually and considered her a friend. Spoiler(except 2 who had a bad ending)The MC did indeed kill people or cause their death or maiming - but on adults only.
Well I read this on Royalroad and I really like this novel. the characters are mostly likable and it has some decent twists. the world building is good and while there is not an insane amount of character development, it's not 0 either
If you like a strong independent mc then you would be disappointed, for a 40 year old women to be this naive is insane, shes too solf hearted the mc know it herself, and she treated the characters like grandchildren that doesn't know better but the in reality shes just delusional, she makes herself believe that something is ok then act as if everybody oberreacted but would a 40 year old women really think that kissing on the lips is ok because someone is a friend and it's just a goodbye kiss and nothing else? If she herself know that her "friends" is young and she a mature womam(mentaly?) Thats more weird tbh
Tori considered Constantine a friend. She also considered him just a teen with a bad case of puppy love. It's just a kiss and not all that meaningful to her.You're 40 and there's a 15 or 16 year old teen saying he loves you and begs for a kiss. She didn't want to kiss him, but did it out of spite because Alessa Hart just influenced him again right in front of her and got him all confused, ruining the effort she had made to bring him around to join her circle of friends.She kissed Constantine because she wanted to one up Alessa and bring Constantine's attention back on her. There was also a little competition there with Alessa, Tori wanted to outdo her at her own game.BTW, the MC is no virgin 40 yr old either. She was an independant woman who did as she pleased, and loved to travel all over the world. Foodie and thrill seeker. Her relations with men or women were never explicitly stated in the novel, but she did start laughing at the boys once when they argued about size. She prefers them a "little better than average".
I read this one on RR. This novel starts out as a somewhat blatant ripoff of "My Next Life as a Villainess; All routes lead to doom" And it was good, quite funny, and poked fun at the "meta" of villainess style novels, while establishing a realistic world.As the novel progresses due to the lack of major adversity facing the titular Tori the novel leads into a sort of lull Slice of Life+ Business/"empire" management style for a long period of time. The Humor and meta references slowly fall by the wayside, and imo the novel is worse for it. In the more recent chapters while I won't say Tori experiences actual long term loss or hardships there is at least opposition or hurdles to her progression regularly.On the whole this novel is easy to recommend to fans of 'villainess" novels, slice of life fans, and even has significant appeal to fans of business/noble management type novels. Just don't expect a lot of character growth or romance despite being set in an "otome" game setting.