review: Mistakenly Saving the Villain by Feng Yu Nie

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I finished MisVil today and posted a review on my journal:

Mistakenly Saving the Villain by Feng Yu Nie

It was definitely an interesting read but it's Heavy and deals with Heavy stuff. While I didn't always agree with the author, I appreciated a c-novel where sexual violence is treated as a violation instead of a profound proclamation of love.

Comments

[lessonsinescapology]

I didn't finish this novel for the reasons you listed in your review. While the trauma was realistic enough, the romance was absolutely silly and there wasn't enough plot to interest me. I felt like I was reading a doctor's journal which took the joy out of it.

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Understandable. I'm a nurse so I'm always curious to see how medical stuff is portrayed in fantasy.

(I have to say that the Grand Reveal in the end put the romance in a new light. By that I don't mean that everyone should force themselves to read a book that just doesn't click, but to me it was pretty neat. Still silly but neat.)

[geraineon]

I completely bounced off this story because I didn't really care about where it was going, but glad it worked for you and thanks for sharing your review!

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It definitely isn't a book I'd readily recommend but frankly, in many ways, I liked it MORE than 2ha exactly because it didn't treat rape as a haha-funny-I love you-trope.

[geraineon]

hahaha I bounced off 2HA for different reasons (mostly because I didn't like one of the plot twists I've been spoilered about, and maybe the story in Chinese is beautiful but reading the 7S translation, the tone/speed of the plot felt very YA)

MisVil to me suffers from a tone issue too, but MisVil's issue is not that it sounded YA, it was that it didn't seem to know what it wanted the tone to be. It's been a while since I touched them both, but those are what I remember of my impressions.

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MisVil's issue is not that it sounded YA, it was that it didn't seem to know what it wanted the tone to be.
You know, I wouldn't be surprised if that was because of the plot twists in the end...