Can Someone Please Explain What’s Going On?! Volume 3

Can Someone Please Explain What’s Going On?! #3

by Tsuredurebana, Rin Hagiwara (Illustrator), Matthias Hirsh (Translator)

It looks like Viola and Cercis are finally starting to see eye to eye when Cercis suddenly tells her that he'll be leaving for a campaign in a neighboring kingdom. Will Viola be okay by herself in the manor while he's away? Well, maybe ‘alone’ isn’t the right word—after all, her servant friends will still be there! Or so she says. Before he leaves, though, he’s intent on taking her on one more date! Hope it doesn’t go like the last one. Find out how our heroine fares looking after the estate while Cercis is away in volume three of Can Someone Please Explain What’s Going On?!

Genres: Light Novel, Romance, Comedy

203 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 8, 2020

Reviews

[Rebecca · Rating 2 out of 5]

This may be where my grim curiosity about this series withers and dies. Despite starting out more like volume two than volume one, it started backsliding fairly rapidly at about the 30% mark, mostly in terms of the language. I'm really not sure what the translators/adapters were thinking with all of the very, very modern slang (such as ROFL) or why the author felt the need to use references that no one in the story's world could possibly make, but those are back in full force after being largely absent from volume two. When we add to that linguistic issues that a teeny tiny bit of research could have fixed - seriously "dowager" is not a hard word to find - this becomes a chore rather than a pleasure.

I do feel sorry for Cercis at this point, because Viola is not only disinterested (deliberately in some cases) but actively embarrassed by his affection and that's just painful to read about. But Viola's also back to being obnoxious, so I'm not sure what he sees in her anyway.

I may forget all of this if I'm hurting for books to read when the fourth one comes out. But I'm pretty sure this is the end with this series for me.