By Selena Pigoni and Minori Aritani. Released in North America by J-Novel Club. Another of the J-Novel Club contest winners, this one feels the most like a standard light novel, in both good and bad ways. If I hadn’t been told it was a contest entry, there are only a few places where I might guess that it’s not translated from the Japanese. This is a shoujo light novel in the “escaping my horrible fiance and hooking up with a much better guy” genre, which usually intersects with the villainess or Cinderella genres but here doesn’t really have aspects of either of those. That said, this has something most of the Japanese versions lack. Japan’s wish fantasy books tend to have the ex-fiance/boyfriend by rather pathetic, shouty but completely ineffectual…
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