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This is a comfortable read about a competent and fairly wise manager of a moderately described hotel. There's a nice balance between the daily life and hotel elements, with the romance slowly growing into something steady. The most developed secondary character isn't the ML but the clever mom who becomes a hotel manager. The romance is wholesome yet less of a focus and less interesting than the hotel management, thus the camaraderie takes up as much time. It's also nice to see the MC doted on as a niece. The danger felt greater near the start despite the actual stakes being higher later on, but by this point the MC has relied on wit to resolve hotel conflicts more than cheats.I didn't find any massive flaws, though this story is closer to a comfort read than anything thought provoking. I find a lot of quibbles with this kind of relaxed writing when I get into it though. The hotel's design and ambiance should be described much, much more, because it's more relevant than any character aside from the MC. The MC's wise remarks are more emotional intelligence that suits her personality than any involved thought process for us to enjoy. This is a fairly lax system novel so many problems have convenient solutions and many quests have convenient timing. There's a non-awakened aunt who you'd expect had some presence in MC's life but only her awakened family members are relevant, which feels a bit off. I'm glad the ML isn't toxic, but I'm not sure where the relationship can go from here (about the halfway point). The ML matters less to me now than the Manager, who is mostly present to be a business partner, so at this point I'm judging the story on how well may favorite Manager is treated. Yes, I like it a lot, it's to my taste at the moment, but I find faults with it. My worry for the story is Spoiler
The full cast are now more or less clearheaded and focused, so the tension increasingly relies on outside circumstances. While the internal conflicts were thin, and the external conflicts are imaginative, the internal ones had more heart. Oh well Manager just hit on a fun event, let's see if it involves emotion or mostly inconvenience, and if the author can recover their footing.
[collapse]The current translation has issues with pronouns and attributing lines to characters, but it's otherwise decent. A manhwa adaptation is also releasing.