We’ve returned to Smolder a month later (for me) and we’re doing a little less in the way of chapters because I had a lot to say about chapter eight and the other two chapters were short.
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Title: Betrayal of Dignity
Author: Kimpa (novel)
Adaptation/Artist: Manta’s Production Team (It’s literally a paragraph)
Rating: Mature with low spice
Genre: Historical, Palace Intrigue, Romance, Marriage of (In)Convenience, Drama, Angst
Hosted On: Manta Comics
Official Link(s): English
Would you sacrifice your honor to marry a Duke?
In order to save her family from ruin, Chloe Verdier must find a groom for her sister, Alice. She soon runs into the handsome but arrogant Duke Tisse who makes a proposal that could save them. When Alice flees with a mysterious man, Chloe must seek out the Duke in the biggest gamble of her life.
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Title: Doctor Elise: The Royal Lady with the Lamp
Author/Story: Yuin
Artist: Mini
Rating: Teen
Genre: reincarnation, historical fantasy, medical drama, romance, villainess, war
Hosted On: Lezhin
Official Link(s): English, Korean
Jihyun is a master surgeon at the peak of her medical prowess. She’s made it her life’s mission to save lives in order to atone for the sins of her past life, but her dreams are cut short when her plane crashes in the middle of the Pacific. When Jihyun wakes up, she finds herself back in her first life as Elise de Clarence – the haughty nightmare of a girl who brought on her own tragic end. The new Elise, however, still has time to set things straight – with her newfound medical knowledge, the reformed Elise sets out to right the wrongs of her tragic first life!
Please do not ask me how much time I’ve spent on Doctor Elise in its run between TappyToon (where it was hosted at one point) and Lezhin. But trust me… it was all worth it.
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Title: Surge Towards You
Author/Artist: Cheongyeon
Rating: Adult
Genre: romance, drama, sports, omegaverse
Hosted On: Lezhin
Official Link(s): English
Cheong-ho is a national swim team member who has been struggling with poor records. As an alpha, his physical condition could be improved greatly through sex with an omega, but he has a fear of omega pheromones. His hopes of being a top swimmer seem to be sinking, but that all changes when he meets Yi-rim, an omega whose pheromones don’t give off any scent. Yi-rim is only too happy to help Cheong-ho out, and thus the two of them start a purely physical relationship. It’s almost like they’re a match made in heaven. But…why is it so hard for them to close the distance between each other?
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Chapter 4 begins with Anita complaining about the stress of her life in the upcoming wedding. it also includes one of the worst sentences I’ve ever read. after Anita talks about walking into the bridal gallery making her feel bad she talks about what had briefly made it okay:
Edward trying on clothes had made it fun again, and seeing Peter be a better adult than some of the immortals I knew, and Asher trying, and Kane getting his ass kicked by Peter. Everything fun was associated with the people, none of it with the bridal shop and clothes.
This is not a good sentence and I don’t want to pretend that it is.
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Title: Mad Dog
Author/Artist: Haribo
Rating: Adult
Genre: BL, gangster/crime, enemies-to-lovers
Hosted On: Lezhin
Official Link(s): English
Some people thirst for power while others want nothing more than to live low. Hamin has always been resentful of the label that comes with being his father’s son—he didn’t ask to be born into a mob family! After much trial and error, Hamin finally breaks ties with his family and begins to live the life he’s dreamed about. That is, until he gets kidnapped and finds himself under the protection of a certain Kwon Sehyuk. All Hamin wants is his “normal” life back, but Sehyuk is as far from normal as a person can get…
I love a good gangster series, but it takes me a while to settle into them. This is maybe my first Korean organized crime series and I honestly picked it up because I enjoyed the unhinged energy of the “top” in the series, Sehyuk from the cover! I’m actually obsessed with Sehyuk.
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Title: Your Ultimate Love Rival
Author/Story: Sol Leesu (Original Story), SaJeog (Adaptation)
Artist: Matte
Rating: (Older Teen)
Genre: transmigration, romance, drama, fantasy
Hosted On: Tapas (ENG)
Official Link(s): English
Naturally charming, Irene attracts women like a magnet, even when she doesn’t mean to. Enter her best friend, Claudia, who refuses to marry any of her three suitors because of her affection for Irene. As a result, these powerful and mentally unstable men declare Irene as their rival in love and threaten her life. She knows none of them deserve to be with Claudia, but she doesn’t want to die! To save both her friend and herself, Irene must prove she’s their ultimate rival, but will she succeed?
First of all, this isn’t a Girls Love series. I need y’all to know that because I’d actually assumed it had been a GL series at the start and when the female lead started linking up with the OG!FL’s brother… I got so pissed. Do not end up like me. This is not a series that’s for the gays… unless you suspend disbelief and bank your own rage.
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Title: Writing My Male Lead’s Happily Ever After
Author/Story: Lee Jiha (ORIGINAL STORY) and ANTSTUDIO (ADAPTATION)
Artist: ANTSTUDIO and Gaetteok
Rating: Gen to Teen (Violence)
Genre: Transmigration/Isekai, Romance, Fantasy
Hosted On: Tapas (ENG) , Kakao (KOR)
Official Link(s): English, Korean
A madman with a tragic childhood and a disease that brings on insanity, destined to fall obsessively in love with the saintess of the holy nation… This was the male lead of the melodramatic novel I wrote. He is also the very person who kills Laria Sherwood, the villainess I possessed, and whom I must stay away from to survive… or so I thought, until I saw the terrible reality I created. I suppose, as the author, it wouldn’t hurt to teach him how to love, then leave right when the female lead appears, right? But will it be as easy as I thought?
I read a lot of webtoons and I’m gonna be real: few have stressed me out the way “Writing My Male Lead’s Happily Ever After” has.
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Title: From A Knight To A Lady
Author/Story: Sung Hyerim
Artist: Coyo
Rating: Teen (for violence)
Genre: Romance, Reincarnation, Fantasy, Drama, Time Travel
Hosted On: Webtoon
Official Link(s): English, Korean
Estelle meets her untimely death as a valiant knight of the Kingdom of Ersha. But death is not the end for Estelle — three years after her demise, she finds herself reincarnated in the body of Lucifela Aydin, the spoiled and cold-hearted daughter of a count in the Empire of Jansgar. To her dismay, she finds that her country fell to Jansgar years ago, and that she is now betrothed to Zedekiah Heint, the son of a duke and her adversary in her previous life. Can Estelle discover the truth behind her death while attempting to navigate her new life as Lucifela?
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I took a break from sporking/technically hate reading the Anita Blake series after I completed my readthrough of Rafael last year. (You can read that spork here)
I gave myself a year off from engaging with the series on any critical level because I didn’t like how much I was getting annoyed by Hamilton’s writing and her politics in and out of her universe. So I gave myself an ultimatum: no more. No more analysis. No more hate-reading. No more rude tweets backed up with screenshots.
I gave myself a year to calm down, chill out, and see if there’s something else I love to hate(read) more.
There was nothing else and, conveniently, the end of my hiatus landed on the release of Smolder, the latest Anita Blake book.
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Title: My Husband, My Sister, and I
Author/Story: muso (original story), PISTACHIO (adaptation)
Artist: WOOSA
Rating: Teen (with a dot of spice)
Genre: Romance, Fantasy, Drama, Marriage and Divorce, Revenge
Hosted On: Manta Comics
Official Link(s): English
“I taste her on your lips.”
On the night of our fourth wedding anniversary, I witnessed my husband having an affair. “I love you,” he told my twin sister as he laid on top of her. This can’t just end easily with a divorce. No, I’ll make them pay for this.
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Title: Beware The Villainess
Author/Story: Berry and Soda Ice
Artist: Blue Canna
Rating: Teen (Light Suggestiveness)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Isekai/Transmigration, Romance
Hosted On: Tapas (ENG), Kakao (KOR)
Official Link(s): English, Korean
Sit back and take in this romantic tale of an angelic heroine and her devoted suitors as they vie for the depths of her love… or not. This story’s about to go through some edits! After an accident, a modern-day college student awakens as the story’s villainess, Melissa Foddebrat. She’s far from anyone’s favorite, but she IS the daughter of the duke. Determined to live it up, this new Melissa is doing things her way — antiquated society, be damned! All idiots, prepare to step aside or perish!
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Title: The Remarried Empress
Author/Story: Alphatart (original story), HereLee (adaptation)
Artist: Sumpul
Rating: Teen
Genre: romance, fantasy, drama
Hosted On: Webtoon/Naver
Official Link(s): English, Korean
Navier Ellie Trovi was an empress perfect in every way — intelligent, courageous, and socially adept. She was kind to her subjects and devoted to her husband. Navier was perfectly content to live the rest of her days as the wise empress of the Eastern Empire. That is, until her husband brought home a mistress and demanded a divorce. “I accept this divorce… And I request an approval of my remarriage.” In a shocking twist, Navier remarries another emperor and retains her title and childhood dream as empress. But just how did everything unfold?
If you’re ever wondering what series sparked the catalyst for my webtoon obsession, I think the closest we can come is Alphatart, HereLee, and Sumpul’s The Remarried Empress on Webtoon.
This is the series that I come back to all the time, and it’s given me a lot to think about when it comes to storytelling, misogyny in the narrative, and internalized misogyny in the reader. And it all starts with how Navier’s callous husband Sovieshu (known in the fandom as “Sovieshit”) brings the wide-eyed naif Rashta (who fandom calls “Trashta”) into the castle and installs her as his mistress without any thought of what that would mean for Navier’s public reputation.
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Title: Tricked into Becoming the Heroine’s Stepmother
Author/Story: MOKGAMGI
Artist: HARIHEEN
Rating: General/All Ages
Genre: transmigration/isekai, romance, fantasy, family, comedy
Hosted On: Webtoon
Official Link(s): English, Korean
After her death, Daisy Heidi is reincarnated into the world of “Why Did the Duke’s Daughter Roll Across the Pumpkin Patch?”, a so-called “tragedy” novel where the beautiful heroine Pierta indulges in reckless lust and hedonism with ten ardent suitors to a bitter end. Though Daisy is reborn as a poor commoner in this world, she has one distinct advantage over others in her second chance at life — she’s the author of the original novel! When fate brings Daisy into the lives of the novel’s heroine Pierta and her dashing father Duke Henstone, Daisy vows to do everything she can to prevent Pierta’s future of despair.
A huge reason why I’m focusing on Tricked into Becoming the Heroine’s Stepmother this week is because I needed a light and cute transmigration series for my agonies.
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Title: Surviving As A Maid
Author/Story: Cloud Whale Soap
Artist: Heeseo
Rating: Teen
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Historical, Isekai/Transmigration, BL (Sort of)
Hosted On: Tapas, Kakao
Official Link(s): English, Korean
Ash Tolkayn was an ordinary office worker before she somehow became a maid in a BL novel with a scandalous love triangle between the King, his mysterious male lover, and the jilted Queen. But everything changes when the King appoints Ash as the crown prince’s new nanny… after murdering the previous one! Now, on top of juggling the duties of childcare, she finds herself smack dab in the middle of the cutthroat royal drama. Can Ash rise to the challenge and survive as a maid?
Surviving As A Maid for being one of the series that gave me trust issues when it came to a new-to-me subgenre of isekai series: girl gets transmigrated into a minor female role in a Boys Love series.
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