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<\/a>By Natsuna Kawase<\/strong>\nPublisher:<\/strong> CMX
\nAge Rating:<\/strong> Everyone
\nGenre:<\/b> Romance\/Fantasy
\nPrice:<\/b> $9.99<\/p>\n
A strong female lead is a great way to pull me into a story, but add interesting supporting characters, and a premise that’s simple but layered, and you’ve got me hooked!\u00a0 A Tale of an Unknown Country<\/i> does all of this, creating a fun read.<\/p>\n
I love reading stories with strong female characters, and Rosemarie, Princess of the small, relatively poor country of Ardela is exactly that.\u00a0 She isn’t your average princess.\u00a0 Outspoken and impulsive, Rosemarie doesn’t take the announcement of her betrothal lightly.\u00a0 When we first meet her, she is disguised as the Princess’ maid, sent ahead to prepare things for her arrival in Yurinela.\u00a0 Her real goal is to meet Reynol and decide for herself if the marriage would be a good idea.\u00a0 Rumors about Reynol make her doubtful.\u00a0 Even though Mache seems to have some control over Rosemarie’s life, she seems just as determined to keep some control over it.<\/p>\n
Reynol, the prince of Yurinela, a country not only wealthier than Ardela, but also more technologically advanced, turned out to be a good match for Rosemarie.\u00a0 It’s a sort of “opposites attract” kind of situation between them.\u00a0 Rosemarie comes from a country where the natural world is important.\u00a0 Rosemarie herself represents this with a warm and personable personality.\u00a0 Reynol, coming from a country that is covered in a dome and the weather is controlled, has a cooler, more stand-offish personality.\u00a0 But both find traits in the other endearing and bring them close together.\u00a0 They turn out to compliment each other nicely.<\/p>\n
Throughout this volume, we are introduced to other characters, that are meant to be obstacles in their budding relationship, and competition for their affections.\u00a0 Maylina and Reynol’s personal secretary Turk are the first to appear.\u00a0 Maylina tries the same stunt Rosemarie did, posing as a made, but she can’t pull it off for more than a few minutes.\u00a0 Rosemarie’s kindness so wins the other princess over in believing she is a good match for Reynol.\u00a0 Turk takes longer, as he resists, so it’s Reynol that breaks him down.\u00a0 Rosemarie’s childhood friend Yunos arrives next, trying to use his previous relationship with Rosemarie to get between them.\u00a0 But Rosemarie won’t see Yunos as anything more than a friend, and he is forced to admit defeat.\u00a0 Their attempts to dissuade the couple are believable and they don’t pose any real threat to their relationship.\u00a0 That honor goes to Mache.<\/p>\n
All throughout this title Mache is shown as a master manipulator.\u00a0 He seems to know exactly how everyone around him will react, seems to have planned everything, and encourages all the obstacles in Rosemarie’s and Reynol’s way.\u00a0 His control however, seems too perfect.\u00a0 I found it hard to believe every time he proclaimed things turned out exactly how he planned it.\u00a0 And at the very end, things go just too far for my liking.\u00a0 Even though it all ends happily, it wasn’t very satisfying thanks to Mache.<\/p>\n
The art of this title is cute, but a bit on the generic side.\u00a0 It’s weaker at the beginning, but gradually gets better as the chapters go one.\u00a0 This first volume covers a full arc, with Rosemarie’s and Reynol’s trials to win everyone’s approval for their marriage.\u00a0 And the way the volume ends, it could almost be a standalone title.<\/p>\n
A Tale of An Unknown Country<\/i> is fun read with some romance and drama, but not enough to be overly dramatic.\u00a0 It’s a light read that Tweens and up will enjoy.<\/p>\n
Review copy provided by publisher.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rosemarie is content with life in the humble kingdom of Ardela.\u00a0 But Mache, her brother, believes they need to align with the bigger and wealthier nation of Yurinela so he promises her hand in marriage to Reynol, Yurinela’s mysterious young Prince.\u00a0 Not a girl to just go along with such an arrangement, Rosemarie decides to get a peek at this Prince and maybe sabotage the wedding plans while she’s at it.\u00a0 Assuming the identity of “Marie,” she shows up at the Prince’s castle as a maid and begins her role as a spy.\u00a0 But could it turn out that Reynol is not the ogre she imagined? By Natsuna Kawase Publisher: CMX Age Rating: Everyone Genre: Romance\/Fantasy Price: $9.99 A strong female lead is a great way to pull me into a story, but add interesting supporting characters, and a premise that’s simple but layered, and you’ve got me hooked!\u00a0 A Tale of an Unknown Country does all of this, creating a fun read. I love reading stories with strong female characters, and Rosemarie, Princess of the small, relatively poor country of Ardela is exactly that.\u00a0 She isn’t your average princess.\u00a0 Outspoken and impulsive, Rosemarie doesn’t take the announcement of her…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[37,83,110,120,135],"class_list":["post-3574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews-reviews","tag-cmx","tag-manga","tag-review","tag-shojo","tag-teen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2umma-VE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3984,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions\/3984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}