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“Elaina, Archduke Grant is coming to visit tomorrow……. Someone you like.”
Diane’s sobs reminded Elaina of a book. Every night, she read the same book over and over again in her dreams. In the book, “Moonshadow,” Diane is sold off to become the wife of Archduke Grant due to family circumstances, preventing her from marrying the man she loves. The book ends with Diane, tired of her loveless marriage, taking her own life.
‘This can’t be happening!’
She had done so much to prevent Diane’s misery. Now she can’t stand by and watch her fall into the devil’s maw.
“Don’t worry, Diane.”
Elaina took Diane’s hand and reassured her.
“I’ll take care of everything.”
She will. Even if it means she herself marries him instead.
***
“You’ve interfered every time I tried to approach Diane Redwood, and now you want to marry me instead?”
“Think of it more like a one-year contract than a marriage. We can give and take what we want from each other.”
Lyle Grant looked at Elaina with confusion.
“What on earth for?”
“I have a heart that won’t let me turn away from a poor person.”
It wasn’t just for Diane. Diane, the protagonist, Nathan, the love of her life, and Lyle and his younger brother. Everyone in “Moonshadow” was unhappy, each for their own reasons.
“I promise, I’ll be your wife for a year, but I’ll do my best while I’m at it.”
Elaina smiled up at Lyle, her face full of confidence. She had a plan to make all the characters in the damn “Moonshadow” happy.
Mymyemine
the synopsis making it sounding so interesting. but when I actually read the story, it’s makes me disappointed instead. the idea of the story is indeed good, but how it is executed is so plain and boring. i already read until chapter 80 and decided to stop. the problems of this novel are:
1. the author skipped important scenes that the male lead (lyle) has (they just added it as a recalled memory of him instead of actually narrated how it was took place in details)
2. the Lyle’s portions kinda so limited and too dominated with the female lead’s (elaina) pov. that at some point, it’s feels like lyle is just a side character
3. there are too many involvement of side characters’s stories that I can’t really feel the excitement and anticipation of the main leads relationship (in other words it’s feels so empty)
4. i think, the author doesn’t really know how to execute to narrate how Lyle dealings with his activities (i mean in the battlefield; they just don’t know how to narrate a fighting scene) so, when lyle go to mabel mountain for a monster subjugation, there’s no even a significant scenes of how him and his knights fights the monster. that’s absurd tbh.
5. the servants behavior is also absurd. cause they’re kinda too absorbed in their masters relationship problem. I’m imagining in lyle & Elaina’s place, it’ll be so uncomfortable.
6. there’s no even a good romancing scene. not even a proper kissing scene. just lyle asking permission to kiss elaina and all done and other kiss is just a peck. for a ‘romantic’ genre, it’s feels hollow
there are some I might forget to add too. overall the story just feels empty