The Young Lady is a Reborn Assassin

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Jensen Weller was the world’s most infamous professional killer – a shadow in the night who stuck fear in the hearts of politicians, businessmen and terrorists alike. Living life under fire, he always knew that one day his number would come up. After finally falling during an intense gunfight, he awakens to find himself trapped inside the body of another, the body of a teenage girl.

Now afflicted with an extreme compulsion to laugh boisterously at the drop of a hat, the newly renamed Maria Walston-Carter must attend the nation’s most prestigious boarding school and do her noble family proud. What initially seems to be a peaceful existence in a magical world undergoing an industrial revolution soon proves to be anything but.

Jensen’s skills as an assassin aren’t ready to be put away just yet.

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Status: Completed
Year: 2023
Author: DWS

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Rating: 4.5/ 5.0
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Community Reviews(10)

yy8erigRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Well written, no major grammar issues, reasonable plot, good interactions, the usual.
A common complaint in the reviews is that the first few dozen chapters are slow and lack direction. However, I felt like those were a good buildup to the later chapters, building attachments to the various characters.
Once it does pick up it becomes much more exciting to read. I really love the interactions between Maria and Veronica.
DuskDeadmanRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I don't wanna spoil anything (though there isn't much to spoil yet), so I'll just say this. It has the potential to be really fun. There's a severe over saturation of isekai, but this one fixes a few of the problems I have with isekai by giving the perspective of other characters, AND by making the main character paranoid AF.
GabalterRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I am going to get my criticisms out of the way first, and if you don't feel like those are deal breakers then I highly recommend this story.
First is going to be the large cast of characters that felt left in the dust. A lot of the male characters that are introduced in the beginning are just kinda there for the ride and are never really used to any real effect, the main gimmick of the story being the main cause of that. (that the main character is reincarnated into a romance visual novel game) forcing love interests of the game into the story, which is barely even used for anything other than a satirical twist on genre expectations in the beginning.
If the Author had included any romantic subplot much of that issue would have been resolved, but that was all dropped in favor of more action (which is something I would have done myself, I am not a fan of romance.) Which makes it all the more confusing on why the author wanted that reincarnated into a villainess cliche in the first place. I think if you really wanted to use the trope of getting sent to a game world, why not make it an action game? It would have fit the story much better and allowed side characters to at least be of some use in the overall plot.
I have to say though that I really enjoyed the dynamic between the two main characters and their constant bickering. I wasn't really sure if the author was trying to pair them as a sapphic romance or if that was just another dropped subplot, but I rather enjoyed it for what it was.
I especially enjoyed the mother/daughter dynamic. The idea that her daughter's soul was essentially stolen and replaced with a killer is horrifying. That the whole thing is kind of dropped with very little effect to the overall plot is extremely disappointing. The mother is upset, but she just keeps doing what she would have done even if she didn't know. The author failed to give proper weight to the mother daughter situation, and I felt it wasn't given the depth and impact something
J TecoyoRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I've read up to Chapter 168. Guns, violence, attitude, and gods working in mysterious ways... what's not to like?! But like a starving snacka saltaholic, this one chip Chapter at a time pacing is so very difficult for those of us who consume mass quantities and prefer instant gratification. More please.
JRWRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is a well written and original fiction. The transmogrification plot line is not unique, but the idea of putting an assassin into the body of a little girl seems like a challenge. The author makes it work though. The characters are well drawn and the pace is quick enough to keep things interesting. I have finished the first book and am still enjoying the read.
KyrabranRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I came across this story, read the entire thing in about 4 days, and ended up downloading the app so I could track updates.
I'm a sucker for Otome Villainess Isekai and I like the way this story manages to combine something like Bakarina or Yumiela with Guy Ritchie underworld movies.
The characters are all a lot of fun, especially Maria. The supporting characters are all engaging and multidimensional, with good and bad sides to them (except Sam, who's hopelessly good) and they're all interesting enough that it doesn't bother me when a cliffhanger segues to another character's perspective and another part of the story instead of being resolved right away.
The action scenes are a lot of fun, and the plot and worldbuilding between them is genuinely interesting and makes them feel meaningful and important.
PlasmaXJRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I don't usually leave reviews. I really like this stories premise. I plan on sticking with it for the long haul. I will update this review when the story is further along.
I need fifty words to post this review and as I can't think of anything else to write, I'll just keep typing till I reach it.
TheAngryJerkRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Not going to sugarcoat it, the first 5 chapters were tough to get through because they were way too on the nose and laying it on thick. This was bouncing around for a while on the “might read” list.
Once you get past the first few chapters the writing mellows out into something enjoyable to read, a reincarnation as a villainess story but without the perfect walkthrough knowledge or even a reap emphasis on game plot. The MC does what it says on the tin, use assassin skills and shoots people.
HikinBearRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Yet another Man-Dies-and-gets-Reborn-in-Another-World “Isekai” story. In this case, he assumes the body of a very young, well-to-do Noble girl. The world, of course, has Magic but is transitioning to technology. The Main Character, Maria embraces the cold, calculating personality of the trained assassin who she was in her past life. However, as a 13-year-old petite Girl it is mostly mistaken as arrogant confidence. She prefers being a loner, basically because she doesn’t THINK like a 13-year-old girl. We have a young girl in a mixed gender boarding school yet there is no dating or sex anywhere.
I enjoyed the premise, and I felt the story was good to very good. Avoids some tropes while embracing others. The pacing is very good and moves the reader along nicely. The fight scenes are well done, with sufficient detail to show carnage without moving the prose into Horror.
One of the problems toward the end of book 1 is the total blindness of the police and other adults toward the Main Character, Maria. She is described in one scene as “…drenched from head to toe in both my own blood and everyone else’s.”, yet no one suspects the dainty girl is the person responsible for the carnage. It’s entertaining enough to excuse the lapse but is a bit much.
I enjoyed the humor and the trials the MC faces in trying to write her own story. Magic is available to a small percentage of the population but is falling out of favor as Technology is advancing. The MC, Maria, is, of course, powerful but hasn’t come into her own yet. More will be revealed in Book-2.
Overall, the writing is very good with decent editing. Grammar is very good. Recommended.
SoVegetableRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Let me preface this by saying I am a sucker for a good setting. Immediatey, from what we were given in the prologue and first 2 chapters, I was sucked into this world. A modern assassin who thought he died wakes up as a little girl at the turn of the 19th century. It'll be interesting to see magic and technology affect society and each other as time goes on. It's a refreshing and unique break from the standard medieval times setting.
I'm excited to see how the MC learns to cope with her new reality, and how she gets to the point we see her at in the first chapter.
There's not a very large sample size, but I haven't seen any grammar mistakes or awkward writing. If there was anything, it wasn't noticeable enough to be memorable and it didn't break the reading flow, which means it's good.