Bentgaidin's Reviews > I'm in Love with the Villainess (Light Novel) Vol. 2

'I'm In Love With the Villainess,' vol 2, has to try and thread the needle of its promised revolution and the resolution of its love story with a particularly adamant noble daughter; it does find its way to a happy ending, but because it can't quite seem to commit to the chaos of actual revolution, it instead layers on several convoluted plots and lets its heroines and the country escape relatively unscathed. It feels sort of like the author realizing that, as good as the two characters are together, their differences were going to pull them apart short of a deus ex machina; otherwise Claire wasn't going to remain both the villainess and someone that Rei could love. I'd love to see an adaptation done where the end-game plotting was instead woven through the entire story; light novels getting turned into manga and/or anime would be the perfect place for this sort of editorial touch-up. Other than that, it's a very cute story with lots of good moments, it's explicitly queer and trans friendly, and the whole bicker to banter to loving teasing arc is a great thing; that its romantic genre meant it wasn't going to actually blow up the whole social structure and deal with that fallout is hard to count too much against it.