****Actual Rating 4.5 Stars****
I loved this one even more then Volume One!
Things continue off right where Volume One ended and boy was it intense! I loved how both Letitia and Erden traded in being in the spotlight and how Letitia didn’t “girlboss” her way into winning the fight but in a natural way that fit her feelings on what Kurax was doing to Erden to get her so riled. Even throughout the volume neither of them outshine, so to speak, the other and always work better together, though Letitia does get a bit more screen time due to being the main character but never at the expense of Erden which I greatly appreciated.
The romance is blossoming in such a sweet, slow, wholesome way and I am HERE FOR IT! 😍🥰 It’s so cute with enough yearning/pining/angst to make you root for them to be together yet not so much so that it’s stressful to the point of giving me a hernia, lol. And they’re just too darn cute together even when they’re just doing their “Scooby-Doo investigation” shenanigans without any romance in the slightest, though when Letitia started feeling Erden’s chest at one point then was like “why’d I do that?!” I cracked up, it’s so hilarious and cute in how attracted she is to her husband.
And while I might be in the minority on this point, I DID feel that Erden’s “face reveal” didn’t hit quite as hard as it could have if his face hadn’t already been revealed in the prologue back in Volume One–in all honesty if this were made into an anime (I hope it is someday!!!) I personally would modify that prologue to NOT show his face and cut things off when the people at the party are whispering about why Letitia likes him so much when she goes to him all smiles, as I think this would add more mystery for the viewer of what DOES he look like? We’re already told by the title he’s hot, but how much so or is it misleading? That’s just my two cents but regardless of the lack of mystery and tension that could have been there I still really loved that scene and how things played out, haha.
The artwork continues to be GORGEOUS and the one scene where they find the glass butterflies? STUNNING, that was such a beautiful, heartfelt scene!
Curious to see where things go next, this is a really beautiful and funny series so far!
‼️Content‼️
Language: damn wench; gah; damn; what the; bastards
Violence: fighting with weapons and magic (PG-PG-13); injuries and blood (PG-PG-13); a stone golem is stabbed in the side, shoulder, and head (PG-13); a character cuts a stone golem’s head off (PG-13)
Sexual: a man is called hot; mentions from a woman on how another looks young enough to bear children; a wife presses on/notices her husband’s firm chest
Other: evil fantasy creatures and humanoid beings are called “devils”; a character is reincarnated; a character is called a monster; a character is cursed; magic/magical objects; a gambling house for devils