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She would torment me, and I would dote on her. It was a win-win situation.
2.5 stars. This was very silly, but enjoyable if you're willing to turn your brain off and sink into the genre conventions and make your peace with the paucity of the world-building. Rei is transported into her favourite dating sim, (how? none of our business I guess) a game that she loves mostly because of the main villainess, Claire. What follows is a romp full of unrequited love (?), comedy (?) and class politics, sorta. Unless there's something that I've forgotten, this is the first light novel that I've read, and the writing style took me a while to get used to. Lots of dialogue interspersed with lots of exposition. It felt like reading a manga without the visual aid of illustrations. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have finished this without the audiobook. And the content is kind of obnoxious; Rei is content to be Claire's verbal punching bag, and meanwhile confesses her love every two seconds. The overall plot could have been more interesting, because I'm always up for revolution and questions of class, but Rei is genuinely like, "I guess the commoners have a point... but I'm more interested in my love interest, sorry!" There's a very unnecessary surprise incest plot with side characters that made me ???
Listened to the audiobook as read by Courtney Shaw, which helped get me through this and did make the humour stand out more. Got to admit, this did make me chuckle, particularly with Rei's blitheness in the face of... everything. I did have enough fun with this that I'm willing to continue the series, especially since it ended in a place where I feel like, idk, maybe there'll be some positive development soon.