The Exiled Villainess Returns (OLD)

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Status: This story is currently being heavily edited and will be reposted on this same account as a new story in 2024.

|Rough Draft #1|Vol. 1 & 2 Complete.Vol.3 Discontinued._______________________________________________________________________________Livia Katrina Valentine regains her memories of her past life just as she triggers her own death flag. Rather than a token of strength, her memories haunt her in their steep clarity.

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Status: Hiatus
Year: 2021
Author: Tblew

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Rating: 4.0/ 5.0
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Community Reviews(8)

RoseButterRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The Exiled Villainess Returns posits the simple question: "If downfall is inevitable for a villainess, why not lean in?" Well, as Livia learns, there are many good reasons why 'destruction flags' are spooky. This story follows her learning how terrible, soul-crushing, and inhumane a bad end can be, while trying to salvage something of her life. Even worse, the otome game has is grasping fingers everywhere.
Not everything is bleak; Livia will have her triumphant return!
The story flows well with reasonably good characterization, though I am not quite drooling on my keyboard. Come read The Exiled Villainess Returns for the plot with its windy twists and turns.
SacredriverRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
A familiar trope with a darker twist to it. Contains some subject that some people may find uncomfotrable.
Also has a pregnant protagonist, which is a plot device I never saw being used at the start of a book before.
I'm intrested to see where the story and characters go from here.
JMWebbRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
So, I like the story so far. I think the premise is interesting, although I wasn't immediately drawn into the main character until the 3rd chapter. I think the style really saves the story from the use of passive voices and mismatched tenses that occasionally occur, especially when you get to the 3rd and 4th chapters where you understand the MC and her situation better. This is definitely an interesting story, and I look forward to reading more of it when I have time this weekend
Also, spoiler section
Getting sucked into a dating sim as the antagonist is NEAT! What the heck why didn't I think of that? I really want to know more about who the MC was before she was sucked into the dating sim. Did she do something in her Earth life to be given this as punishment? Was it just dumb luck? Will we ever see her outside of the game? What type of person is she on Earth, compared to the dating sim? I love the implications that she might be a much better person than the character she has become, and hope the story continues to play with the juxtaposition of Earth-life and dating-sim life.
AaradurRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
TEVR is quite a unique take pn the reincarnated villaoness genre with more of a monte christo theme going on. There is a lot of interesting and unique worldbuilding, and a protagonist who does have some terrifying powers but overall is quite weak, especially due to her pregnancy which dominates much of the plot. One issue though, for which i have dropped a star, is the language, there are many mistakes and some strangely mixed tenses in there. I recommend reading the first chapter, and if you find this manageable, it is an excellent story
EkoRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
Let me start by saying that I've read the entire story (60 chapters so far) in 2 days, so it is definitely very entertaining.
The story is about the "villainess" Livia, with the first volume being about her exile and return, and the second one about her revenge. The intriguing and story-driving part is that while her crime was real and the ordained exile just, it does not stop there, to which Livia takes exception. Both interesting and original.
The world building is okay and pretty standard. The world might be much better than it seems, but we are really not told much. To give an example, there are levels, but they are only mentioned once when a guy is said to be level 70-something. So far we've not learnt what that means nor the level of anyone else. In similar vain there are adventures and while we've been told that a certain character is a S rank adventurer we are again not told what it means.
Grammar is okay, there are one or two typos in most chapters, but the chapters are also quite long, so nothing really bothersome.
The characters are what I feel is the strongest part of the story, with the MC Livia leading front and center. She is also pregnant for most of the story and it is honestly great. I don't think I've seen pregnancy used in such a way before either. The side characters are quite good as well. Some of them feel a bit 1 dimensional at the start, but we quickly learn that there is more depth to them.
Now onto the bad.
Firstly a somewhat minor thing, but I wouldn't call Livia a villainous lead. Before the story really starts, she is a bully, but that disappears basically instantly once she gets her memories back and afterwards the worst thing she does is pursue her revenge, but she does it in a pretty peaceful and even just way (so far) - Perhaps she is just a few chapters from going on a witch hunt and torturing slightly related people to death, but so far she is an antihero at worst. Not really a problem, but perhaps something to think about.
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UnderloadRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
The story progresses at quite a pace. It takes its time to build the character but then flings her around the world without any worldbuilding.
I believe time skips work best when done around the same place without involving new characters. The story does the opposite and I'm taking half a point for that.
My first impression is that there wasn't enough time given to the main character for her to develop.
Character:
She is a revenge-driven Nobel in the first chapter, a confused woman in the second, and a modern girl in the third. Then she was pushed into captivity in the fourth and fifth and then the time skip occurred.
Style & Grammer:
The style is the strongest part of the story. I really liked the frantic narration in the seventh chapter. The confusion felt by the protagonist in the third chapter was also done great. The author's style is great. The grammar is also great.
Story:
The first thing is that there is a plot. We learn what she'd be doing in the future in the first three chapters. Which is great. I really liked that she wasn't saved, but dropped into a quagmire. My only gripe is that she got all-powerful and sensible in the background with the time skip.
Overall:
Truthfully, this is the only book I'm following among the last couple of them I've reviewed. And it will probably be the only one I'll read to the end. I'm only waiting for book one to end so I can binge-read it.
vladeragRoyal Road
★★★ 2.5
The subgenre of otome reincarnation, much like most reincarnation or isekai stories, has a certain set of tropes that almost always occur. In fact, one could say that these events must occur for a story to be part of this subgenre. Furthermore, reincarnation novels in general have a tendency to start without much preamble. There is little point setting up the character's backstory because any worldbuilding you do will be tossed out the window when they quite literally end up in a different world. More importantly, one of the greatest advantages of a reincarnation/isekai protagonist is they are someone anyone can inherently identify with because what makes them special is that their perspective and knowledge come from our own world. Effectively, this means they aren't any different from the reader and are easy to live through vicariously.
Finally and indeed, most importantly to my criticism, is that these traits in practice cause a kind of whiplash peculiar to this subgenre because the reader is thrown straight into some kind of action without being given much of a baseline. You do not learn about a character and see them go on an adventure but rather learn about the character through the adventure they go on. Usually, this is a difference without much of a distinction because there generally isn't much to learn. Rather, a good writer will use the adventure itself as a method to mold what would otherwise be a quite normal character into a fantastic one; the experience itself causing character growth and resulting in an interesting character by the end of the story.
However, The Exiled Villaness Returns has more or less skipped that part entirely and the absence is worse than if it merely had been poorly written.
Fresh off the whiplash of reincarnation there are multiple time skips and a whole extra life's worth of memories. We are told, as if we had asked for a summary of events and received a dry bullet point list of them, that the main character was dragge
Creationism0Royal Road
★★★ 2.5
very, very rough novel. As far as Otome novels go, I'd describe this as probably the roughest I've read, even.
The main criticism has to be the first 5 chapters. Its basically impossible to follow whats going on, and by chapter 9 there's still not a single explanation of what happened.
There is in fact a year long timeskip that occurs as the MC is enslaved, through which apparently a lot of plot happens, since the very next chapter is her attempting to escape a coup with her master, who is apparently the emperor...yeah.
Its frankly hard to like the novel or its characters as far as I read, since none of them except the MC has been "on screen" for very long, nothing about them is explained, and as for the MC, she's apparently having a year long or so identity crisis?
To be fair, the story isn't all bad. It has some chapters that have decent grammar, and the bones seem to be there. Unfortunately at the most critical juncture of the novel for new readers, theres just not a lot to latch on to. I'd say every single chapter I read (halfway through nine) would need to be completely rewritten so that at least the story could make sense