I received this book from the publisher/Netgalley in exchange of an honest review.

I always LOVE LOVE these kind of WEBToon/Manwhas so when I saw this one up on Netgalley I had to request it and I am so glad I did it! Plus, look at that cover. swoons

In this one we meet a girl named Latil who is eager to get her happy ending with the man she loves. Until she is betrayed and I seriously wanted to punch the guy. I loved that instead of her just doing nothing, or continue crying, she steps up. Especially when she gets a chance to be the heir to the throne. That is when things truly get awesome. This girl is studious, eager to learn, and throws herself into learning everything. I already loved Latil because she kicked ass (and looked gorgeous in both dresses and suits) but seeing her take control of things like this and then when things go south don’t immediately go for option one but actually think about things? Perfection. This girl is perfect for the role of empress. And even when she is an empress she keeps her opinions and tries to make things her own. I have read emperor/empress stories in which the emperor/empress will let themselves be swayed by the dukes/ministry/etc. but this girl has plans and she fights. I loved seeing Latil grow as the story continues and I am definitely curious to see how things will go. Plus, what she is planning with all the consorts, teehee. Yes, I am ready for some sexy times/romance.

Like with a harem. The people under her just want her to have one consort, but this girl has dreams. She wants at least 5, maybe more. Maybe rotating them? I loved seeing her lay her case down and come with some very good arguments. I mean, if you are giving all the guys before her big big consort heavens then she can have one too.

I hated ALL THE MEN. ALL OF THEM. Or at least the ones that are dateable. If only Latil’s knight was dateable, because he seems the only good one. I guess for me it also didn’t help we get to see their POVs at times. If it just focussed on Latil maybe I wouldn’t feel so strong about these guys. XD

Seriously. Hyacinth (who the heck names their son that) is an asshole. Leaves for years for a war, lets a girl think she is going to get married to him that it is truly love, only to end with him engaged to another woman (for the sake of the empire puke) and that if she can just wait 5 years she can still marry him, aka left-overs. Yeah, nope. Also I think it is sus what was mentioned at the end. Yeah, sure you did all that? Mmm, let’s first see proof of that.

Then there is Klein, the brother of Hyacinth, who clearly has a few screws lose and thinks that Latil has the hots for him whereas she was clearly out of her mind drunk and NOT TALKING ABOUT HIM OBVIOUSLY. But instead of thinking, or listening, or keeping his distance, he is a creeper. He gets into her harem (the test one I guess) and he just wanders into her room without any permissions. Ewww. Nope.

Then there is that boy from the duke who is all mysterious and reclusive and suddenly wants to join the harem? Um, SUSSSSSSSSS. I don’t believe for one bit he has good intentions. I hope so. For Latil’s sake, but at this point, SUS SUS SUS.

I hope that in the next volume we get a few more dateable men and less red flags. I mean harem stories are fun because you also want to be dating these guys. It is less fun if they are all creepy or assholes. So come on story and bring me some HOT hunks to root for. Like again, the knight?

The art was a lot of fun though and I so so loved it. OK, some scenes, further away or when faces just weren’t the priority were just a bit weird.

But all in all, I am definitively into reading more of this one, I want to see Latil get her revenge, I want to see who is intercepting stuff, I want to get some actually good guys in the harem. I need more!