If you know anything about me, you know I am a villainess isekai stan first and a human second, so I HAD to pick this one up and i LOVED IT SO MUCH. Hits all my favorite things: genre aware, convinced they're evil despite not being evil, the theme of kindness changing everything-- exquisite. I also love her being like "hey kill me if I'm evil" and everyone being like UM???? YOU OKAY GIRL??? WHAT'S UP???

devastated to learn that the manga was cancelled, I need to pick up the light novel posthaste!!

I enjoyed this so much omg. I really loved the way this book portrayed kink, in a very nonjudgmental and kind of overall neutral way. The MC has a lot of anxiety about judgement and her own interests, but the book itself and the love interest presents it as just a trait that is less visible in society, which was very wholesome. Kink is a form of play, and this book understands that in a really lovely way.

It was cute, and hot, and the relationship between the main characters was just sooo wonderful, I love especially how the book shows someone who doesn't know about kink becoming interested in it. I feel like a lot of kink media either A) has the man (if it's a F/M romance) be interested in kink first or B) tends to present it as a huge immediate interest for both, but this one had a more gradual development of interest in a kind of system neutral way. He likes it, and wants to give her what she wants, but it shows a different aspect of that interest. I loved it and I need more!

I was really intrigued by the title, and especially intrigued by the possible dynamic between the MC and the Princess and the worldbuilding of,,, why she's going into the dungeon (which we kind of get but not in an interesting or satisfactory way), but the book was mainly focused on the guy just doing sidequests that I was totally uninterested in, and it was also wayyy more violent than I expected. I thought the explicit content warning would be for sexual stuff but it feels like it's mainly for brutality.

The little glimpses I got of the princess and the MC's dynamic was super cool and I wanted to learn more about it, but considering it was only like 6 pages out of the whole volume, I don't think I'll be continuing this series.