Thoughts after reading:The story is interesting, with some good twists and turns. But the setting of the noble classed magic-users are just too typical. Plus I don't think I like the main couple much.
Rating: 2.8 stars.
The author of this series is a famous yaoi novelist with ton of published novels under her belt, but in this first try of her (I admit I don't really know the author's gender) fantasy light novel, there are many things left to be desired.
To be honest, the story is entertaining enough, the plot twists about the main character's origin, the male lead's family secrets and the twist about the 'gifts' from the Priest are all very well crafted; but the world setting really is nothing new, we get an all-boys boarding school, an 18-or-19th-century-Europe-lookalike-world-with-magic (even the beloved Queen of this kingdom is called Queen Victoria!), the snobby nobles and the magicless commoners, a few magical animals and familiars here and there. That's it.
Aside from the typical world building, the romance and the main couple are typical too. The seme in the relationship is a guy named Noah, who is the handsome second son of a noble family, a fire mage with outstanding power, so...naturally everyone in the school worshiped him but after he became jaded and treated everyone aloofly (excepts his friend Oscar, a wind mage).
Noah is pretty much your typical YA brooding bad boy, though even the most typical bad boy can be written into an interesting character, still Noah so far looks flat to me, as someone with an interesting character's setting and an overwhelming obsession with Mahoro, nothing he had said and done in the book impressed me, what a pity.
The uke Mahoro is like, really passive. He is pretty much the typical kind-heartened pushover you can find in plenty of yaoi light novels. Supposedly he has magical power too but so far his power is to amplifier other people's power *sighs* Although I can understand his passiveness is the result of him being an orphan with no parents and always having to obey his adopted family and he has been treated like a servant; still from start to end, his personality is just very uninteresting.
The main plot twist in the end, is a bit unsatisfying as well, a certain someone turned to the villainous Dark Clan all of a sudden with little foreshadowing and I'm like.....what? plus I think the dialogues among characters are pretty flat too, with no hooks to highlight the characters' personalities.
Anyway, I'd already bought two books from the series, so I'm doomed to read to the end.
4.3 stars. Unexpected turns. It was rather a bad luck for Noah to get his second "gift" XD Glad that Mahoro was fine wwwww And I really wish that the author will be willing to save some interesting (but might be disputable) friends for the main characters, not just turns these friends into antagonists... I am also curious that after all those efforts that enable Mahoro to become the child that can walk under the sun, with his one and the only match Siegfried, how can he have his offsprings anyway XDDDD Is this another MMpreg series? 🤔