Reviews of The Villainess Turns the Hourglass
The Villainess Turns the Hourglass
SanSobee
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- Translation Quality
- Updating Stability
- Story Development
- Character Design
- world background
This is a very interesting novel. The background information and story plot line is smooth. The character design is fantastic with the descriptive words that allow me to imagine and picture the actual scenes clearly in my head. Overall would totally recommend to my friends and hope the story continues and grow more popular!!
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I'll be honest, I only read the free parts. (that's just 10 chapters) I love Villainess stories, love the trope and probably will read again and again. So when I saw this pretty cover being promoted, well who could resist? But this one doesn't generate enough interest for me to continue. The contents aren't awful, some parts are even artfully placed as to pique curiosity. But it seems rather fluffed up as to take up chapter space/word count. Of course, we're not looking at revolutionary originality in this type of genre but you know it get's rather tedious. Kind of like watching a very obvious anime filler episode. The translation and editing are also very odd. Sometimes it's a very detailed and pretty line/transaltion. Other times it's...honestly really awkward, even bad. There were times in the first 10 chapters that made me go "Where is the editior? Seriously?". Overall both the editing quality and fillers contents just seem not worth it for me spend anything to unlock further chapters. Not if they're all like this (thats 200+ chapter of DBZ level dragged out filler on a story you can kinda predict already). This is just the opinion of one poor reader with limited coins/fast passes. Thanks but no thanks. Note: If you read on mobile the qutoes show up funny. They come out as "e; instead of actual "..." but I'll blame that on WN.
This book has an interesting storyline but the expository kills it. The chapters have repeated info, the explanations are mostly redundant. As for the dialogues, they are plain. Conversations and actions that ought to be put in dialogue format (to flesh out the story) are jumbled into one paragraph of explanation. The pacing of the story is off, the events and processes that mc goes through are rushed. Worse, the series of events don't always happen sequentially. It becomes confusing in a chapter to mention things that happened in the duration of a previous chapter but was never mention in said previous chapter. Overall, looking at other reviews, I kind of wonder if iread a different book. Maybe I'm just over sensitive.
I've read 51 chapter as i review this novel, the translation and language is a little bit confusing, and it has slow pace story, not really worth it to unlock Main character is so selfish and not genuine, it almost feel like she just love to use anyone without any emphaty or feelings, she wasting her power of hourglass despite knowing it have negative effect on her, so i'll drop this novel, thank you for editor, translator and author, keep up β€ i'm looking forward to your next better story π
At first it was okay, but I really started to hate the mc. I couldn't stand her at all. I empathized more with the sister rather than the mc. The sister's actions in the first life really wasn't that bad. I understood why she did it. Revenge, revenge blah blah blah. It's not like the stupid mc had been a saint in the first life either. I have no idea why she was even given the chance to reincarnate. Heck i would totally be pissed too if some woman and her child just barged in and became family
I actually already posted a review months ago. But I feel like I mispoken a lot of things since Iβm not an english speaker. excuse me then as I rant this lackluster story (again) The plot is intresting enough. Sure Villainess novel, I love these kind of genres especially if the mc became an anti hero with charms that makes u feel βI support a baddieβ kind of thing. But this novels lacks that bcs of the MC childish, selfish, boring, and petty revenge Iβm just...- over her. MC is trying to justify her evil deeds because her past innocent self was killed injusticely by Mielle. Which is....what? What innocent lmao. Aria is willing to sell her own body so she can live a good life without trying to study or try her best at anything, a big bich to her family, and have horrible temper. of course her noble family will not tolerate it and shame her. Itβs not mielleβs fault for thinking Aria is a big eye sore for her family. Iβm not telerating murder and Mielle is of course at fault for murdering someone. But Ariaβs first run in life canβt be considered as βinnocentβ right? Both of them r basically the same bad ppl. And yaβll wanna make me support the mc? oh please... If I support Mielle... I support a murderer. If I support Aria, I support a hypocrite lmao. just nope. Itβs been a while since I read novels with kind of a childish mc(?) So I canβt help but get critical with her settings. If you like this novel, hoopity hoppity thereβs nothing wrong with you. Go ahead and read this if u want. I just canβt continue~ (βΒ΄Οο½β)
The more the story goes on, the more structured it is. Every time I expect more and wait for the next story. The world we live in is also a world where people who are dishonest pretend to be good people and hold power and everything. I like it more than anything else that the author humorously criticizes it through this novel.
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Translation Quatlity: 2 stars After a few chapters instead of having actual quotes, it just says β"eβ which makes this harder to read. Iβve never been one to care about such mistakes but after a while it gets annoying having to look at it. Updating Stability: 5 stars Saying as the book had already been completed I just handed that a five stars, without it, this rating would only be 2 stars altogether. Story Development: 3 stars I dropped the book relatively early on, so I didnβt get to see much story development, though Aira does talk about her wrongdoings in her first life. Still, I believe Aira should have decided to give Mielle a chance to be her friend by being nice to her first. Character design: 3 stars Again, I dropped the book early on, but the author didnβt tell us how any of the main characters look, she didnβt even explain their personalities you had to catch a whiff of the character. I noticed early on that many people, including me, thought Cain was innocent and liked him at the beginning of the book but he took a 180 turn as soon as we gauged his train of thought. Not to mention Aria supposedly being a 14 year old girl and only reaching the stomach of her 18 year old tutor. World background: 2 stars The author hadnβt yet even discribed the way Ariaβs room looked by chapter 8, for the most part, she keeps you distracted in Airaβs scheming but it takes the magic away from the book being in a white space all the time, as the way the author has written it thatβs what she makes it seem. The place is only mentioned if it has significant such as the time Aria found and X-shaped/hourglass-shaped piece of glass under the bed sheet, and even then, the bed wasnβt described. My thoughts about this book: Either itβs a poorly written thing or the translations make it this way. Another thing, I canβt bring myself to fully side with Aria and her schemes, some things Mielle might deserve and others are just Ariaβs overriding thirst for revenge.
