Notorious No More: The Villainess Enjoys Feigning Incompetence Volume 2

稀代の悪女、三度目の人生で【無才無能】を楽しむ Light Novel #2

by Hanako Arashi, Jeremy Browning (Translator), Wan☆Hachipisu (Illustrator)

As a student of the Royal Academy, Laviange has perfected the art of slacking off. Despite being a brilliant mage, she hides behind her reputation as an incompetent individual, spending her days sneaking cuddles from her beloved sacred beasts and avoiding responsibility at all costs. Life is blissfully uneventful—until the Poison Box Garden incident shatters the calm. When a long streak of bullying cases comes to light, the academy is forced to take action. But not everyone is ready to accept the consequences. Sienna, one of the main perpetrators, has become a pariah, and she blames Laviange for her downfall. Bent on revenge, she enlists the help of her powerful best friend to strike back. Soon, Laviange senses a new malevolent, ghostly presence haunting the academy grounds... Join Laviange on a new adventure as she misuses her sacred beasts’ powers and smacks down ghosts with her new fan-shaped magical tool!

Genres: Light Novel

334 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 10, 2023

About the author

嵐華子

Reviews

[Jen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Punches don’t get pulled and lost some of the luster of the first one. No one seems to be concerned with the demon who tried to twist a possible soon to be sacred beast, or the fact that it had manipulated and severely hurt two teenagers. Granted, the teens were pretty twisted, but the adults seemed to have NO concern for their own children/adoptive children. This is a BRUTAL world.

Also, the love interests are WAAAAY too young for the MC h, who remembers her two previous lives, one of which she lived to the ripe old age of 86! So she sees all of the kids as just that, kids. To imagine her “faking in love” with one of them and marriage and all that entails is SUPER squick.

3, not bad but not going to continue with this series, stars.

[Pieter · Rating 3 out of 5]

The series remains a fun light-hearted read with a few darker undertones with the MC being an entertaining twist on the usual villainess tropes. It comes with its eye roll moments as expected. The whole risky novel author and the fake sexual innuendo at certain points come to mind. The plot itself is a bit confusing even though we get some explanation about events in this volume. Then again, it is more about characters and events than the why. So, a decent read that fitted expectations.

[Jennifer · Rating 2 out of 5]

Super disjointed and relies very heavily on dumb humor to gloss over important plots. It retells the story from multiple viewpoints, and they’re all varying levels of obsessive or crazy. I don’t understand the severe abuse of MC in both her original life and this one…and it’s illogical that she doesn’t care about her parents as much as Mihail and Sienna for being the grandchildren of “them,” when her father would be the son of those same people.

[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

I absolutely adore this series!

This was a great sequel to the series. We get a little more backstory and some follow-up for our loveable and loathsome characters alike. I am excited to continue this story!