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I feel bad giving this under 4 stars but well.
I'm a transmigration novel reader and when I saw this I had to read it.
Honestly I don't have any misgivings about the story as a whole, it's as you would expect from the blurb. Mainly its about two people who's lives abruptly took a turn (in a bad way) and they find each other through this book series (inside the book that is). It made me laugh sometimes for sure but other times the characters said such cringe stuff and tried to be poetic ... my tolerance is sort of low when it comes to these things. But that's very subjective, oh and now I get that his eyes were this unnatural green cause of the novels effects but the way he was described... he tastes like mint, his eyes are a peridot green, green green green I wouldn't be surprised if he next bled green too - it was kind of half his character trait besides being grumpy 
Also I don't fully get the beef they had going on in the very beginning, when she said she'd push him off a cliff 💀
And after the first meeting their relationship exponentially got worse until the third meeting and with just an apology we're over it? I tell you if he wasn't pretty that would not go the way it did 
+ she kept saying she was broken and I cant take it seriously, I'm sorry 
Yk what I also didn't need to know what he ate before every kiss, I was kind of holding back puke (ex. "He tasted like onion rings and strong drink and sugared spaghetti")
Sweetheart is also not my fav pet name but that doesn't effect my rating, there's much worse.
But what kinda did really bug me was that he kept walking backwards? What was up with that?


So in summary: overall I enjoyed it, it wrapped up nice but all the little things about the characters that I didn't like chipped away at the rating 🫢
If you like growling, glowing green eyed, grumpy-ish mmc's this might be to your liking 
And a fmc that's in her head a lot -she's not fully sunshine yet cause she's broken, yk? 
And friendships were also such a big focal point 

I sound so negative, it's actually fine TT most of the time 
I liked the atmosphere, it actually felt like she was in a magical world 🌸

I guess I shouldnt listen to audiobooks anymore because I lost focus for like 50% of the story - and that's why I won't rate this.
But the 50% I did register I would rate about 3.5 stars. I'm nit a huge horror fan, the idea was fine but still it didn't catch me fully.

Es war definitiv mehr als nur eine RomCom, ich habe nicht ganz mitgezählt aber der romantische Anteil hat insgesamt weniger betragen als der Anteil, der eher in womens fiction gehören sollte. Toxische Beziehungen sind ein Fokuspunkt in diesem Buch und obwohl es so ein ernstes Thema ist, hat sich das Buch trotzdem sehr hihi haha Blumen und Bienchen gelesen. (Wobei es auch daran liegen kann, dass es kein trigger für mich ist - oder auch, dass diese Beziehung in der Vergangenheit liegt und wir ihren Heilungsprozess begleiten) 
Auf jeden Fall, es gibt nur Punktabzug bei mir, da es nicht ganz meinen Humor traf und mich komplett umgehauen hat. Die ellenlangen Briefe und Posts waren zwar nötig aber musste mich durchkämpfen.
Das klingt ein bisschen zu negativ dafür, dass ich es in so kurzer Zeit fertig gelesen habe. Es fesselt einen auf jeden Fall, manche Charakter sind eine einzige  Karikatur, wirklich Harriet hatte keine Zeit zum durchatmen.
Es war das perfekte Buch für zwischendurch, mir genug Drama und Komödie. Beach read vielleicht. Vielleicht auch nicht, wenn man nicht gerne über manipulative Männer lesen will. (Aber es gibt Rache also lohnt es sich!)

I read this at the complete wrong timeee TT
I was just so happy that the

fake dating trope ended so quickly and my worries resolved themselves

.
I also love to see the ugly sides of characters, too perfect people are not my style. But that's not to say that the characters were bad throughout, on the contrary I found them actually so sweet together

(ofc except for the breakup at the end there)

 
Also the premise of how the three girls knew each other wasn't expanded upon much, not that I mind, but Taylors love life sure is complicated 

All in all the reason why the rating is so low is because maybe I'm a little sick of fake dating (although this was well done) + also this was unexpectatdy heavy + I started this right in the middle of a slump and I dragged reading this over a month 

I would recommend trying this out 

MVP pf this volume was the driver. 

Hmm so they're colonisers and simeon and his brother are in security and military positions ... I don't quite like that. Plus as clever as marielle is she really showed her ignorant side in this one - simeon was supposed to be the critical voice when they talked about immigration and really how she acted grated on me too, but ig this is the point where she'll become more conscious.
I also liked that simeon was self-reflective about himself. 
But all in all, these sort of pseudo european historical manga really like the imperialist coloniser setting. I don't see commentary on it often. I think I'm only thinking about it here cause they actually mentioned "illegal" immigration, the colonial rule trying to keep the former colonies under check, the poverty around the red light district. I did change my mind, I'm glad it's spoken of, even if just a little.

Someone in the comments guessed immediately that

Lady Michelle was actually a boy from the moment it was mentioned that she has a husky voice

I'm amazed, I wanna be oservant like that.
And ngl Lutin is kinda more interesting than ml, oh or what about darius 

That punch was so satisfying