By a Twist of Fate, I’m Attending the Royal Academy in Disguise Vol.1

By a Twist of Fate, I’m Attending the Royal Academy in Disguise (Light Novel) #1

by Ringo, Alex Castor (translator), Tsukasa Satsuki (illustrator)

Love Comes In Many Disguises!

Cesia, a mere servant, is attending the Royal Academy in place of the lazy, pampered daughter of the viscount she works for, all for a massive monetary reward upon her successful graduation that would allow her to live the rest of her life without any worries. She spends her days avoiding the feeble bullying of the ladies of the Academy while being worked to the bone at the viscount’s mansion—until just before graduation, when she gets tricked and her pay completely vanishes! Furious, she vows to get even, no matter what it takes, when out of nowhere, the second prince shows up and offers to help her? A spunky heroine with determined resistance as her motto and a mischievous prince who puts his life on the line for his country meet in this love story where anything could happen!

Genres: Light Novel, Fantasy, Romance

244 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 31, 2024

Reviews

[Jen · Rating 2 out of 5]

The ending was so OTT TSTL that I couldn’t even.

Spoilers below.

20 year old MC h is a spy. She gets busted by the Baddies, one of whom revealed in said busting that SHE was the Bad Spy. Did the MC h stay calm and send a magical message to the MC H, which she did in the past or did she panic and end up firing off magic and jumping off of a fifth floor balcony, leaving the reader on a cliffhanger?

Yeah, not the smarter of the two options is the one she chose. 🤦‍♀️

2, I’m done with this series, stars.

[Mariána K · Rating 3 out of 5]

Boring and generic

So for those who want the quick review if say this was very generic, formulaic, and condensed to the point of having no depth it run to breathe.

This book consists of 4 chapters (plus bonus chapters) that really should have each been a book of their own. The story is distilled so much that cat amounts of time are covered in each chapter (chapter 1 is 4 years of timeline where each following chapter is around a 2-6 month gap between). There is zero time to developing characters and their relationships, and don't think for a second any time is spared to the setting. Characters are very flat and the world logic is flimsy. Magic is weirdly undefined and taken for granted as a way to conveniently move the plot along.

Small pet p #1 of mine is that the title of this story is barely relevant to Chuck's if the first chapter. Another is that each chapter is written as if you didn't read any of the previous chapters so a ton of time is spent revisiting and explaining stuff you just read back at you... to the tune of multiple pages of redundancy in every following chapter.

I could really go on and on but I'm the end is just badly written. The fact I have no interest in reading the next volume when this one cliffhangers by jumping the shark practically mis sentence can testify to how bad this felt to read.

So why not less stars? Grammatically is fine and I don't have any complaints about the translation... plus I have to respect that they finished the book with enough polish to say it at least hit average. I can easily see some people enjoying this book, particularly if they aren't well read. But as a person who reads hundreds of books a year, I know there's better books out there that are more worth my time and money.

[Mk · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is nothing like the title or summary make you think it is. Her attending the royal academy in disguise is like 20% of book 1. After that she very briefly attends school _again_, and then she joins a spy organization. Book 1 ends on a cliffhanger of spy drama.

I don't know how I feel about this one! The characters don't feel engaging the way I want them to. The story concept is good, but I have no real attachment to anyone, and I found myself skimming in the last 15% of the book. I was annoyed when it ended on a cliffhanger instead of desperate to know what happens next.

[Sam Martin · Rating 5 out of 5]

this is not a manga!

I didn’t read it yet, but wanted to warn others before they buy this. Amazon really needs to label their books better. It’s not the first time I purchased a book and found out that it’s manga. Novel should be included in the title. Matter fact if it’s a manga it should be stated. Since I was dumb for buying both books and like the summary I will give it a review in a later date. I’m want to fair with the author and it’s not their fault if Amazon didn’t gave us what type of books this is.
Do NOT Be Fool by the cover.

[Jennifer]

DNF at 44%. I don’t know, normally I can push through, but this one felt like a waste of time. The pacing and time skips were random and I didn’t think the plot made a lot of sense, with the prince manipulating her into all sorts of jobs she didn’t want to do. Their explanations don’t seem logical so I decided to cut my losses now🤷🏻‍♀️

[J-Lynn · Rating 4 out of 5]

I knew it! I knew they were the spy (granted it wasn’t that hard to guess), but I wasn’t thinking that the other one was the mastermind until they were revealed. This is such a fun book and I will be starting the next one immediately due to that fantastic cliffhanger! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

[Rebecca · Rating 2 out of 5]

This could have been good, but the heroine just kept getting more and more TSTL.