Review Detail of Green_duckling in The Villainess Turns the Hourglass

Translation Quatlity: 2 stars After a few chapters instead of having actual quotes, it just says ‘&quote’ which makes this harder to read. I’ve 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 didn’t 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 didn’t tell us how any of the main characters look, she didn’t 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 hadn’t yet even discribed the way Aria’s room looked by chapter 8, for the most part, she keeps you distracted in Aira’s 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 that’s 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 wasn’t described. My thoughts about this book: Either it’s a poorly written thing or the translations make it this way. Another thing, I can’t bring myself to fully side with Aria and her schemes, some things Mielle might deserve and others are just Aria’s overriding thirst for revenge.