Taming the Marquess
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abused male lead abusive family members abusive father abusive mother appearance changes appearance different from actual age auction house based on a novel based on a web novel beautiful artwork beautiful female lead blonde-haired female lead blonde-haired male lead blue-eyed male lead brother-sister relationship brothers butterfly/ies caring female lead child abuse cold male lead contract marriage contracts count/countess disguises dragons dukes dwarf/ves european ambience fallen nobility female protagonist fire fire magic full color godly powers golden/yellow-eyed characters golden/yellow-eyed female lead hidden motive lack of communication mage male lead mages magic items magic powers magic sword male lead falls in love first marquis/marquess nobility/aristocracy noble female lead noble male lead older female younger male palaces politics involving royalty powerful master rescue rescuing from death royalty savior secret identity siblings special ability/ies strong female lead strong male lead sword smiths swordswoman transformations trauma traumatic past villain protagonist villains web comic webtoon white/silver-haired characters
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Popular Reviews
The end has so many plotholes you can use it as colander, it's like the author forgot the details along the way. ML's surname is funny, tho: it will let you screenshot some precious memes
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🔹 Season 3
——— ASPECTS / TROPES ———
——— MAIN CHARACTERS ———
🌻 Laranora Ador (FL)
🦋 Eskal van Dyck (ML)
❄️ Hazen Lomanic (2nd ML-ish/villain)
CONTENT WARNINGS
Salve trade, Public ridicule, body shaming (reference), extreme dieting (memory), violence, parental abuse (memory), sex (implied. Off-screen), parental neglect (memory), suicide (off-screen), massacre
I am crushing over the FL ngl
I'd say the female lead is fairly decent. In a male dominated world with the male lead having op powers, she gets a pass for not being strong enough to help her family when even the prince couldn't.
Though the prince seems like a scheming scumbag, if this somehow turns into a love triangle I'll probably drop my rating.
The male lead can be quite scary. I have no idea of his kill count and don't think he's planning on stopping anytime soon.
Gorgeous art, interesting premise, and good characters but terrible story boarding. The story boarding leaves much to be wanted and makes the story feels flat. The pacing I would say is good at the beginning but got affected by the story boarding. The story boarding is so bad it gives reader no emotional attachment at all.
Like a very bad actor who is clearly trying in an otherwise good movie.
The premise of the story was interesting but the execution was not. The pace felt hurried and the flow of the development was unnatural. Also the FL is unattractive in the sense that she was not strong enough to hold her own without the help of her brothers or the ML and the parts that were made to depict her as sweet or sentimental were just weird. I mean, she was worried about him one moment and next thing you know, without reason, she just decided to sing a lullaby for him. Cringe. Not to mention she’s always wearing shabby men’s wear. I don’t even mean the kind of cross dressing that looks dashing and confident. Just shabby. Always. With a generic, typical 90s shoujo FL vibe of being kind of ditsy and bubbly and tomboyish at the same time… it’s just hard to find her interesting in today’s climate when you have many strong and well thought out characters like Medea Solon, Raeliana McMillan, Latrasil Tarium or Navier (Remarried Empress) who are in addition, drawn beautifully. The ML is also pretty basic, but at least he is drawn more attractively if one were to compare the design against that of the FL. The clothes he wears in his true form are great, so it’s not like the artist can’t do better for the FL. Maybe in later chapters she might be dressed better, but I’m not reading past chapter 18. I can’t.
Haphazard world building too. The culture built around the nobility in this story makes little sense. Like, an early plot line was an attack by a rival family/territory; who arbitrarily attacks another noble household without worrying about the consequences of the law? Or does the King not care if nobles just kill each other whenever they feel like it? There’s also an odd fixation with auction houses. There’s too much emphasis on it.
Also this doesn’t count towards the rating cause the translations aren’t official (where I read from), but most of the chapters were translated poorly. The dialogue was already weird to begin with so… Can’t enjoy the art and can’t enjoy what’s going on either.
Anyway, tldr, the pace and flow is unnatural, FL looks bad, her personality is a 90s shoujo manga throwback, and everything is cringey. Do not recommend.