Nine-year-old Astrid has been reincarnated as an otome game villainess, and now she’s locked in a battle with fate that she refuses to lose. Although she has found herself powerless to stop the sequence of events that she knows will end with her destruction, that could all be about to change. With a talent for magic and some knowledge from her geeky past-life, she’s already made herself an automatic pistol, an automatic rifle, a shotgun, a machine gun, and a grenade launcher. That’s quite an arsenal for a little girl in a world where soldiers still use crossbows...but it’s still not enough! Astrid won’t stop until she has enough firepower to make her unassailable, and that means bigger guns, more combat experience, and some morally questionable magic. She’s going to tear fate a new one, even if it means bringing down an entire empire!
Our main character Astrid is in middle school, and her romance prospects are Dietrich, who is 4 years younger than her (and that’s not including mental age) & her teacher (who isn’t interested in her). Given… all of that, there was way to much focus put on the “romance” elements. If she’d been 16? Or even 14? Not as much of a problem. But she’s like 12…
I’ll still read the next book in the series, but we’ll see how things go.
As it stands, I feel 3 stars is rather generous and I would not recommend this series.
Our lovable Astrid returns with her insistence on avoiding possible bad ends! She still can't escape the landmine trio, though her valiant efforts to pass them off on her friends seems to be gaining momentum. The quest for more firepower to defeat fate continues!