The Wicked House of Caroline

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Rebecca of Caroline, known to her family as "Beks", spent two decades preparing to become a tool for the kingdom as the Queen’s foster daughter and as the child “destined to bring the kingdom to prosperity”, but twenty years of meticulous planning begin to falter after the Queen dies and the role she has been prepared for starts to slip away.

However, she made a promise to the dying Queen.

“If my sons are unable, you must ensure the stability of the kingdom. No matter what personal cost, the kingdommustcome first.Swear to me.”

The promise becomes difficult to keep when a new oracle appears, foster brothers go missing, and the kingdom she was trained to support since age three uses her and her family as a scapegoat.

If she's going to ensure the stability of the kingdom, she may just have to retake it.

But before she can, she needs to survive.

[Family] [Slow-ish Burn] [Multiple Love Interests] [Some Romance, but it's not the focus] [Magical Pets]Updates:Tuesdays & Thursdays

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Status: Completed
Year: 2023
Author: Aila Aurie

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Rating: 4.7/ 5.0
Followers: 1,115
Views: 447,374

Chapters(91 total)

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Community Reviews(10)

BishtansRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Insanely smart and competent, Beks is the pillar that upholds the monarchy of Kadmium. She is willing to do whatever it takes to protect the kingdom. In between strategic raids to return her king to his throne and protect her kingdom from then reckless greed of nobles and time-bending interference from the Temple, she manages to find time to reunite with her family, fall in love with not one but two amazing men, reform an ancient civilization and love on her baby - a giant horned snake named Snowflake.
Slow start required to set the stage, but this meant a sad lack of the humour that leavens the rest of the story. Fortunately, the author warned her readers of this in advance.
Frodo_SagbagRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
If you've read Tori Transmigrated, you will absolutely love this story. It hits all the same notes, with a wildly intelligent female lead, and a brilliant cast of supporting characters. However, the broad strokes differ enough to offer a very different experience, even given the similar genre and style.
For those who haven't read Tori Transmigrate, do! It'll satiate the craving readers of villainess otome-style novels have for more, more, more!
Early spoilers
This series follows our MC, 'Beks', whose world is falling apart before her very eyes. The Queen who raised her and moulded her into the amazing, prophesised woman she is, passes away.
In the tumultuous aftermath, her horrid uncle, with the help of the 'Female Lead' Oracle, turn her now ex-husband against her, uprooting her life and sentencing her, and her birth family to death.
Now she must gather her family, allies, and the rightful king together, to overthrow the useless usurper, and save the Kingdom from ruin!
End Spoiler
The series is written almost entirely from Rebecca's PoV, and showcases her preternatural abilities to retain knowledge, and apply it appropriately no matter the situation. Her seemingly cold demeanour hides a wonderful young woman with a desire to love and be loved, and support her own loved ones with every fibre of her being.
Her ex, Luther, classicly mistook this coldness for apathy, and gladly takes up the Oracle, who has knowledge of her past life, and uses it to manipulate him, along with his father, the aforementioned Uncle.
The story is a slow build of hatred towards Luther and co, whilst we support the Carolines and their endeavours.
I highly recommend you read this story, for the plot, the characters and their development, the almost impeccable grammar, and the style Aila puts into their writing.
Give it a go!
Riviere RougeRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I am thoroughly enjoying this new novel by Aila Aurie.
A subversion of the usual MC time travels trope combined with fantasy politics. This is the best yet of the author's works and so far the pacing, plot twists, and worldbuilding have been phenomenal. The writing and grammar are superb and characters are all realistic.
I highly encourage checking it out!
SleepLessThan3Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Good story, as can be expected from this author. No grammar or spelling mistakes, and only a single noticeable typo as of chapter 14. Extra text to get to 50 words. Extra text to get to 50 words.
Luther is big pee pee poo poo and so are his dad and the oracle 😭😭😭😭
SparifankerlRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I ususlly wouldn't leave a review this early but I'm reading the story on Patreon which reached chapter 21 today. There may be differences between both versions but I believe the differences won't affect my review.
In a nutshell, this is the story of a young woman from high nobility that was groomed by & for the royal family from early on. She was supposed to help the next king govern the country and lead it to prosperity. And she's grown up into an excellent administrator. She was supposed to marry a younger brother of the next king to tie her to the royal family. The royal family, while essentially good rulers, does come with internal conflicts and ruthless schemers though. Her intended husband is absolutely not cut out for ruling and he's fallen in love with another woman who's got an axe to grind with our heroine. Her intended father in law (who happens to be the old queen's third consort) also has a few axes to grind which includes supplanting the next king with his son. A diverse cast of nobles and clergy is also clamouring for their own goals so it shouldn't be too surprising that, upon the old queen's death, the entire situation does turn a bit murderous. And maybe the old queen made a mistake when she had the heroine groomed as an administrator instead of a fighter or schemer. The heroine and her family get exiled and that's where the story starts to really pick up. The exiled heroine will need to pick up a few lessons on survival, fighting and scheming before the story can reach its conclusion.
If you get the feeling that this might be a bit GamesOfThronesy then you'd be mistaken. The situation isn't nearly as convoluted, there's no indication that red weddings or excessive sexual acts will happen. It's far closer to standard semi-medieval with magic fantasy fare but the politicking and scheming is real enough and, especially pronounced in the first couple of chapters. The exposition took slightly more than 10 long chapters on Patreon so it's not exactly t
SunnyBreadRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Story is well-written; good pacing and I liked the relationships between the characters.
Story follows Beks - she seems to be a diligent rule-follower and a capable administrator. Her narrative shows the small rules and bureaucracy there is involved. I've read the story up to Beks being stripped of her position - it will be exciting to see what happens next.
cyotasRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
A very good execution of fantasy political drama with believable plot and some plot subversions that could be inferred without being too obvious. Only bad thing is it lacks in true proper battles with only skirmishes really taking place at all. Do not read this for the action. If you enjoy comebacks and revenge stories that are not revenge porn, this is a must-read.
fennigRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Aila Aurie runs back their success from Tori Transmigrated with another high powered female protagonist doing their best in a world stacked against them.
Expect professional quality writing and worlbuilding, flowing dialogue, and the most infuriating antagonists this side of GoTs Prince Joffrey. Court intrigue, magic, romance; The Wicked House of Caroline has it all.
nexuxenRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
It a good story as if a little slow at first, but once it gets going
and she breaks the engagement with Luther
it's WOW. Every chapter is so interesting and rich, I eat every release right up. So here are some words for you: read this it's worth it.
wong renRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Tori and Caroline are both amazing pieces of character fiction, the main characters are endearing and well written. The side characters are all distinct with memorable voices and personalities. The plot has a variety of twists and turns to keep the narrative compelling. I especially enjoy the smaller slice of life portions on the island.
The one glaring glaring flaw with the work is how incredibly frustratingly bone dense and wilfully ignorant/malicious the antagonists are. It's especially bad this fiction because we get to see things from the Oracle and Luther's POV, so we see how unsympathetic they are.
The author does a great job of getting the audience to root for the main characters, we are invested in their success and revenge. I wish this was done without having the antagonists feel so incompetent.