3.36 AVERAGE

adventurous emotional funny relaxing tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

bluefish34567's review

3.0
adventurous funny lighthearted slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I absolutely adore this manhwa! The art style is so so pretty and the characters are just cinnamon rolls that deserve all of the happiness in the world (except for the Grand Chancellor, hate his guts). I adore Rayburn and Angela together, but I'm definitely not looking forward to
Frederic realizing his feelings and then realizing they're not reciprocated
. I can't wait to see what happens with the sequel to Angela's book and the moment Rayburn returns!

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nyxie_'s review

3.5
lighthearted fast-paced
adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious

32화까지 다 봤는데 영어로 번역한 화 더 없어요.

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Thoughts so far: 20 chapters read.

A thoroughly funny and cute manhwa that all anime fans could empathise with. Angela is a girl who is arrested one day after discovering a fanfiction she wrote about the supposedly ruthless Prince Rayburn (ugh name choice) is serialised by a rogue merchant. She ends up becoming the resident scholar as a ruse in order to write another volume of fanfiction secretly to improve the prince's reputation. But being so close to the object of adoration is overwhelming for Angela, and it turns out the prince might feel something too.

The art is incredible. Every panel is so beautiful and the characters are very expressive. The use of colours is really a big draw in this series, even knowing that webtoons are done in full colour usually. The issue I have with the art is the trope of all the main characters being special and having special hair colours - while everyone else, bad guys not excepted - are average/ugly/gross. The main characters suffer from same face very badly in this series.

The idea of the story is incredibly cute and fun and there are some laugh-out-loud funny panels. I like the jump for Angela from just being a writer in a village admiring the prince from afar to being right next to him in his own palace. She learns a bit more about him and how cool he really is, as well as how driven and capable he is. Sort of tropey but he is the best swordsman in the entire realm. There is a minor rivalry between him and the crown prince, who was made the inheritor of the throne after his birth. This stripped the prince of his title and he is referred to as the prince or the duke through the series; the inconsistency is a bit frustrating.

I also feel like the romance is a bit too rushed, but it is definitely still cute. The development of a love square seems to be coming up... 

One other thing I want to praise is that the fanfiction that Angela wrote is teased a bit in the book - additionally she wrote a scene where the prince and his most trusted knight KISS! essentially making the fanfiction a slashfic LMAO. The prince, understandably, reacts negatively with being forcibly paired with someone in his group. I'm looking forward to more chapters. :)

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25 chapters in and the romance is becoming a little more believable. It appears to have been a ruse and now there are real feelings developing. A few of the chapters have been worthless flashbacks. 1 chapter was almost all flashbacks. Terrible.

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32 chapters in - a plot is actually starting to show. However this means that the manhwa will be really long based on the content we are seeing. Plus the romance is being developed more, these characters are emotionally crippled and just can't drop the L word. A little more world-building but I can't stand these ridiculous names.