50 Tea Recipes from the Duchess · review
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This review may discuss plot details.
This Otome Isekai is the most bog standard Otome Isekai you can possibly thing of. Duke love interest? Check. Girl who is despised by society until Korean girl takes over her body? Check. Said girl having extensive knowledge about a very specific topic that will be used to enhance society in some way? Check. Husband who didn’t like wife now liking Korean girl in wife body? Check. Stupid fuckboy prince? Check. You know exactly what you are getting into when you start reading this manhwa. It checks all the tropes that you think it would and touches on all the things it does. I enjoyed thismanhwa because I knew what I was getting into. I wanted a bog standard otome isekai and I got what I wanted. I enjoyed the romance between Chloé Battenberg and her husband. I enjoyed all the tea facts. I enjoyed how every single problem in the whole series can somehow be solved through tea.
I will say I thought the fuckboy prince now wanting Chloé because she now isn’t interested in him and that makes her I N T E R E S T I N G was far too drawn out. The fuckboy prince does the same shit over and over again and only gets huge consequences towards the end of the story (it’s the climax of the story). On the other hand I really enjoyed seeing Chloé rule over high society. I just enjoy scenes of high society bitches getting put in their place and this series has a ton of that… and it’s even better because they are put into their place through tea lol.
Overall this series is nothing new and nothing special… but I had a good time with what it had to offer.