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Are you currently reading RVing? Is it worth checking out? Also same questions for Kuma Bear.
Let me check what I had about the first two volumes:
Volume 1
RVing My Way into Exile with My Beloved Cat: This Villainess Is Trippin’ Volume 1 - What has to be the most absurd title in a long time, turned out to be just as you would expect. It starts with a carbon copy of every otome game light novel ever. Especially the Level 99 Villainess setup: Overworked corporate slave and otome game player dies and gets reincarnated as the daughter of a duke in her favorite game’s world as the villainess character. She gets her engagement to the prince broken because the game’s main character is falsely accusing her of bullying. She is also mistreated by her family because she is a dark magic user and has black hair which that civilization is discriminating against. Never mind why someone despised by society for black hair and dark magic would ever be chosen as the future queen, but whatever… As I said, they literally threw together all the genre tropes they could think of. MC then uses her special unique skill to summon an RV and head into the sunset. And if the otome game tropes aren’t enough they added the “A strong monster appeared and my evil party kicked me out as monster bait” trope. But is the actual story and that is just 20% of the book. A good 60% or so is just an explanation of what she is cooking. Think of the cooking parts of "Campfire Cooking with My Absurd Skill” and you get it. The remaining 20% are just MC wondering how cute her cat is or how convenient her RV is. That right. musing about the cat and RV takes up as much page space as the actual story progression. I don’t exactly mind aimless novels that are just comfying (yep invented a new word) around but then they have to be at least entertaining while doing so. This one isn’t. And to top it off: If there is a problem the solution to it pops up out of nowhere immediately. For example, they take a herb-gathering quest and MC is having a problem differentiating the good herbs from the bad ones. A paragraph later her skill levels up and now she has a convenient appraisal skill. Another example would be a large monster appearing and not even one paragraph later her skill levels up again and conveniently her RV is now not a small camper bus but one of those large moving home thingies. Not that that was needed though since the solution to that fight was so badly planned that it would have worked with the smaller camper bus as well. I honestly can not think of one redeeming quality of this LN other than the cute cat illustrations. - 2/10
Volume 2
RVing My Way into Exile with My Beloved Cat: This Villainess Is Trippin’ Volume 2 - mid, but better than the first volume.
So, as you see, it’s nothing really worth recommending but that’s enough for my current mood.
Kuma Kuma Bear is worth picking up one volume and if you like the first you’re going to like all. It’s very consistent in its style of comfy fluff. I’d easily chose this over RVing. No question.
I love how Vol 1 review is very detailed but by Vol 2 you were just… done. I usually don’t mind things that are overly tropey if they’re doing it as a joke but sounds like I wouldn’t enjoy it all that much. Besides, there’s Kuma Bear! Thanks for the review!