I picked this up and I really want to like it but I'm just not into it. The FL seems really cool and the only reason why I read as far as I did was because of her. But there are multiple barriers that I don't think are worth hurdling to continue.
The art is fine, not my style but the scanlation just makes it unbearable. The way the text is displayed so jumbled together and incoherent it just hinders the storytelling. Not only that the versions I found didn't have individual pages but showed both pages at the same time. It was fine at first but after a while it became annoying.
The characters are pretty one dimensional from what I've read. The FL is angsty, the prophet is aloof, the girl is depressed, the prince is useless, etc. I swear these characters stick to their one personality trait like glue because every other panel of them making the same face. (FL frowning, girl crying/sad, the prince looking annoying) From the endless list of characters introduced I only liked maybe 3.
The story itself is promising but the **storytelling is awful **and that just sinks the entire ship. In the first handful of chapters, a mountain of new characters are introduced, a majority of which I don't remember the names of, and each come with their own separate mini subplots that (for now) don't have a solid connection to what Lena is doing. I get that you have to establish that link somehow but it's only been like 5 chapters, hold your horses, ** I just want to read more about Lena experiencing this new world, not about some angsty king wannabe or a little girl with a chronic case of the sad. **Like literally an average of every 4-10 pages the scene would switch somewhere else with different characters entirely, it's so bad at times it's unbelievable. The chapter I stopped on I counted 3 different scene changes in 18 pages. That's an average of 6 pages to recount the entire backstory of who knows at this point.
I'm sure the story would get better once these countless layers of backstory have been established but I'm not willing to half-heartedly read/skim through it to get to 'the good part'. I saw lily_kitty15 say they thought ** it was boring until VOLUME 10. ** There are TOO many better manga/manhwa out there to read through 10 volumes of essentially the manga version of the adults from Peanuts. So read at your own risk, know that things aren't going to get good until way down the line.