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This is a fun series with a few annoying problems. The MC is made out to be a genius, learning so quickly and completely from her military affairs, politics, magic, swordsmanship, and etiquette teachers, each of which are supposedly renowned, if not the absolute best in their field, that they run out of things to teach her by like the age of 8, yet she is still somehow completely oblivious. She has no knowledge of the relationships or power dynamics between the aristocrats of her own country, despite the fact that that would DEFINITELY come up in the politics course, and she's got that stereotype "overpowered but they think that their power is nothing special" thing going on, despite the fact that as a child two adult swordsman and a mage, all at the top of their field, have to team up to beat her when she's only using a sword and I think maybe body strengthening magic. She doesn't seem to have a very high opinion of her magical ability in particular, despite the fact that she managed to one-shot a really nasty demon with it.Then there's her social ineptitude. It's for the sake of comedy and plot development, but she's constantly making assumptions about people's attitudes towards her and their behaviors that are completely off the mark and then acting in accordance with those assumptions, to usually comedic results. Half of her 4 crushes so far were ended due to a misunderstanding on her part (the other 2 were a misunderstanding on the other party's side and unavoidable circumstances).What really bother me though, is this novel's tendency to overexplain the hell out of the most bland, inconsequential crap. In chapter 53, there are 25 full paragraphs dedicated to describing how matrilineal and patrilineal inheritance work and their real-world use in Japan and Europe. The rest of the chapter is about the MC visiting the sea... The reason for those chapters is Spoiler
the MC's 4th and latest crush's father had just been assassinated and the crush was next in line to take over as head of the family but they didn't know if it was a personal grudge or an attempt to exterminate their lineage so she had to move away for her own safety. They could have just said "she would inherit the noble title so it wasn't safe", but instead they felt they had to describe exactly why she would be able to inherit the title first...
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