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I’m in Love with the Villainess (Light Novel) Vol. 1
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Ordinary office worker Oohashi Rei wakes up in the body of the protagonist of her favourite otome game, Revolution. To her delight, the first person to greet her is also her favourite character, Claire Francois – the main antagonist of the story! Now, Rei is determined to romance Claire instead of the game’s male leads. But how will her villainous lady love react to this new courtship?!
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Additional information
| Publisher | 1st edition (1 Dec. 2020), Seven Seas |
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| Language | English |
| Paperback | 280 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1645058638 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1645058632 |
| Reading age | 13 – 17 years |
| Dimensions | 15.04 x 1.85 x 21.03 cm |
by Joy
This is such a sweet book and more layers to its main than I expected, I really loved it both as a reader and a queer person:)
by joshua
Nice book to chill out with, some might say that there is no character development but the emotional progress is subtle, the forward motion is believable. Give it a go.
by khuneki
Its beautiful and the story is beautiful too 😀
by Emily
Cannot recommend enough to any Yuri fans looking for a light read. Tackles queer issues with refreshing sincerity.
I love Claire and Rae!
by Zgerken
I had considered starting it before but others took priority and so I’m only getting to it now, and apart from a few instances where I felt such things seemed a little forced and jolted the flow of the series, whether this is on the translators or not I don’t know, but aside from that it was nice enough so I’m hopeful for the next one.
by Hannes Steffenhagen
This is book one of a two-volume series. It starts out quite slowly, but despite appearances this is a quite serious story with plenty of intrigue. Although fortunately the law of author appeal prevents the worst outcome, this doesn’t shy away from more serious LGBTQ issues either (mainly in volume 2); It’s certainly apparent that this isn’t just another fetish fuel story. Overall story wise it’s a decent entry into the weirdly specific Otome reincarnation genre.
The book doesn’t avoid cliché, so if you’re allergic to that this might not be for you. It’s also not *perfectly* paced, there are certainly parts that a particularly malicious reader may call filler (although I personally enjoyed those parts as well).
The translation is pretty typical quality for light novels. It’s competent enough and certainly does it job, but it’s a bit stiff and overly literal at times (to the point where in some instances I felt compelled to work backwards and guess what the original phrasing in Japanese was to work out the meaning of some interactions). It’s good enough to not hamper enjoyment of the book, but it is not really worthy of praise either.
Overall if you’re in the market for a LN with overt and outspoken LGBTQ characters for once (rather than the usual innuendo or fetish fuel) you’ll certainly not be disappointed with this.
by Jenna Parkyn
A truly beautiful unrequited love story, I really found it impressive how the author managed to get across the feeling of unrequited love and it’s prominent within the LGBTQ community.
Fully recommend!