I find it hilarious that people complain about cliches in stories nowadays. It would be different if this was 10 years ago but now there's going to be cliches in every story you read and if there's not then it's going to be a boring story. Guess what if you like a story that has just as many cliches in it as this one does I can guarantee you you are not going to mouth about the cliches in that one are you? No, you're not, because they're going to be talking about how wonderful the story is instead and ignore the cliches because you don't want any negative comments to lessen the popularity. Is there cliches in the story? You bet there is, there is also cliches in every single story written. Being in love is a cliche. I hate to have tell people that but the word cliche doesn't mean what it used to anymore. So stop using it and think with your brain about why you don't like it. What is the 'cliche' that it puts you off so much? Saying it's full of cliches is just an excuse because you can't figure out what you don't like about it or you're listening to somebody else's opinion without progressing in the story personally to clarify. I understand what people are upset about with the food thing, I'm not. I'm poor I live paycheck to paycheck to make sure my kids eat and I have to make sure that they'll eat what they want to eat because they're picky like any other kid. Just like I'm picky even though I'm dirt poor and I am not spoiled. If my @$$ gets sent to a different freaking country against my will you bet your @$$ I'll be b☆tching about anything I can find to bi☆ch about because I'm not happy. I'm not a seafood person, I'm not a vegetable person... I envision in my mind what vegetables could taste like and all I can come up with is dead insects. I don't know if you've ever smelled what a dead ladybug smells like but it's disgusting and I have a feel in my soul that's what vegetables would taste like. Anyway no one's going to force me to eat something I don't want to eat and no one is it going to tell me I can't complain about it. She's not acting arrogant or acting spoiled she doesn't want to eat the freaking food! She doesn't like. Not everybody is going to like every food from every country. That doesn't make somebody bad or make somebody spoiled or selfish. It just means they don't like the f♡cking food. The commenter down below here is passively suggesting that the FL is being racist just because she doesn't like a country's food. I'm tired of this kind of bull💩. Just stop. Just because I don't like seafood doesn't mean I'm racist against people that grew up eating it because they lived in a place where Seafood was bountiful. I grew up where cows are bountiful hence I like my red meat. Sorry Admins, I didn't mean to blow up here but I've just seen this kind of 💩 for the past couple of years and I can't take it anymore. Reviews like this is what can tear down a really good story for no reason other than a group of people not liking it for some random reason, not even a good reason. I want to remind people that just because somebody doesn't like a country's type of food it doesn't make them racist. It makes them picky about what they want to ingest inside their own bodies and nobody can tell somebody what they can and cannot eat! I will go to war over my food. Anyway, it's a good story I think.

It starts off strong and interesting but then quickly loses steam as it’s pacing becomes slightly off and it’s plot becomes extremely cliche.

This story is what you get if The Admiral's Monster Wife and Disobey the Duke If You Dare had a baby, and it was lobotomized.

12 chapters in: It's not completely terrible - but the art is the main selling point. There are cliched parts, but that is okay, because cliches are popular for a reason. But neither the FL or ML appear to have much of a personality 12 chaps in. They both come across as apathetic/emotionless most of the time, and so far ML is passive to the point where he seems like a prop rather than a male lead.

The notable signs of FL's personality showing through are:

1. when she first arrives in the east and decides to focus on
2. when her heart starts to go badump-badump after
and 3. when she repeatedly

There are SIX!! scenes like this in the first 12 chaps. It's like the FL has 2 modes, 95% emotionless doll and 5% brat (imo, this is poor writing).

There's NO excuse for making such a fuss over food & TEA of all things. Imagine being so spoiled like the FL, that you complain about the food served to you, paid for someone else, at a restaurant because it doesn't suit your taste (it doesn't matter if the food is from a different culture - imagine someone complaining about curry / tikka masala, soba, kimchi, salceson - that's just plain rude & bratty).

She also thrills the duchy's chef with her magical ~sandwich making skills~ because apparently people in the east have sub-room temperature IQ, since it never occurred to the chef to ever put vegetables in a sandwich. Nevermind that they somehow have vegetables conveniently lying around when it was juuust established that the east is a watery food desert without access to fresh produce.

ML has the personality of a cardboard box. Thus far, there is no banter, no arrogance, no partnership, no friendship, nada. He's nice to FL though I guess. We got the whole money-throwing cliche (at the garden center), which is an inconsistency considering the abysmal state of the territory, duke's own home, etc.

Bottom line: story started out ok (if a little bland) in chapters 0-3 and then steadily went downhill. I'll reconsider my rating after ch20.

... Last updated on April 21st, 2022, 9:01am