Royal Princess of Blood

So I'm binging this at the moment. The story is... ok.  It's started going downhill for me personally, especially the most recent chapters.

The story's biggest issue is that the grammar and story are rather simple. The author's lack of familiarity with the language is hindering their ability to express it well. That said, it reads like a decent translation, and the story is easy to follow. There are few spelling mistakes or issues with homophones though sentence structure can be clunky.

The mc is entertaining enough, but completely unrealistic given she was originally a highly trained assassin. She comes across as a naive young girl rather than someone hardened through years of brutal training. It just doesn't gel. Also she's incredibly beautiful just because, and most of the other characters are complete doormats when she flutters her eyelashes. If you can ignore that however and treat this somewhat like a light novel it's entertaining enough. She's also not OP (so far) if that floats or sinks your boat.

Regarding antagonists, up to this point, there aren't any, aside from a short intro into a group called mystics who want her dead. Nowhere near enough time spent on them for any kind of character development, other than to plant a flag saying "here there be bad guys".  One of the other biggest irks is that the mc is hunting possible treats to her life.  She focuses solely on pretty much two characters, and completely ignores the hundreds of other possiblities (maids, laundry, knights, maintenance workers, hunters, delivery people, you name it).

The story itself is rather slow, it's taking a lot of chapters to get anywhere. This isn't really bad per se, but something to keep in mind when you get to the end of chapters published so far. It's probably something I'd stick in read later and come back to every month or two.

Style wise as mentioned, it's simple. Don't expect deep plots. What you see is what you get.

World building is typical fantasy, though not much time has been spent developing the world at this point. There are some gods, magic knights and mages. The amount of magic on show so far is pretty limited. Not sure how that will evolve in future.

Maybe worth reading it you are strapped for other things to read. 

I really like this story and came to support the author here. I like how the main characters thoughts are so different from the way she acts and how she isn't an idot. I'm tired of stupid heriones who just trust people right off the bat. I think that people should give this story a chance.

The MC has some issues, but then again what story doesn't. The first 70 chapters were quite fun for me and that all I really ask for in a book.

But unfortunately the latest chapters are going downhill. Both writing and story are notably worse than earlier chapters, often making it difficult to read or understand why the characters do what they do.

I really loved volume 1, finding both the plot and characters to be quite enjoyable. There's a lot of humor and this fantasy world is pretty fascinating. I liked how the MC reacted to the magic of this world. I love how she comes to terms with this ridiculous illogical magical power that dwarfs her own hard earned abilities; she's hilarious and endearing and I love her inner dialogue. I love how her twisted and evil upbringing clashes with her new loving family, how her discipline and suffering allows her to face the terrifying challenges of the new world. I found the supporting characters to all be compelling, especially her personal maid and body guard. I think the most tragic character was too pitiful so that I really hated the last chapter of her. Just too harsh. I especially liked the MC's mother, but didn't like the brother as much. Too stupid and sis con. Overall, a great first volume. 

A slow start but worth the read 

It is not a new idea but it does it well enough that it feels new I am looking forward to see how things play out in volume 2 

Review over just trying to get the 50 words I need to post this 

To start with the bad...

This story especially at the start feels a little clumsy. There are some gramatical errors but nothing to severe. I'm not an expert critique or anything but it seems the main problem is just the author having not yet perfected their writing. Expect such things as dialogue being repeated first in the protagonists thoughts and then in what they say, not in the think before speak kind of way but literally just the same line repeated.

With that said however, the writing gets markedly better as the story progresses. To the point that I no longer have the ability to see whatever errors still remain (If there even are any?). I binged the story hard so I can't confidently say where that threshold is reached but I'd gues the first quarter or so is the roughest part.

Another point is that the story and characters are genuinely really good. Good enough for me at least to bear with the initial awkward writing and I am so glad I did. 

**Story**

Royal Princess of Blood is a reincarnation story featuring an expert assassin dying only to wake up with the seemingly perfect life. That of a beautiful sheltered princess. Unfortunately outside forces may force her to make use of her old skills.

I love this story, I really do. But don't jump into it expecting an action packed joy ride. This has a few things in common with the amazing REND if you're familiar with that. That is to say it takes it's time and a lot more focus is put on the protagonist manipulating others to do the dangerous stuff rather then the more typical action hero style.

**Characters**

Protagonist is overpowered, sometimes that can be a bad thing and some of the earlier clumsiness in the story suggested at least to me that it would be the case here. Having read nearly 1000 pages of it now I don't think that is accurate. For all the talents her previous life gives her and the incredible inate advantages of her new body she still begins very much as frail and delicate as she presents

Physical performance means little in a world where knights can use magic to enhance their bodies beyond anything normally achievable. Magic on the other hand requires a great deal of effort and study to learn and she has to convince those around her to even allow her to learn it in the first place. She has all the potential for becoming a truly overpowered protagonist but the slower pace of the story really shows how much work she has to put in to get there. It's like a child with tremendous talent with an instrument far beyond their peers but still far below a professional performer.

The side characters are all interesting. They are all distinct enough. I have nothing bad to say about them and in general as a reader my main concern is whether or not a side character is believably part of the world and not just a vessel for the main characters story and in my opinion, they pass this test.

**Grammer and Style**

I pretty much covered this in as much detail as can. Simply put don't judge the grammer and style of the story as a whole from just the first quarter of it. I promise it really does get better and better.

That said author if read this consider at some point putting some work into editing the earlier parts of your story. I can imagine some people will read enough to get a feel of the grammer and style without yet understanding the story and then deciding on whether to continue on that alone.

TLDR: Well worth reading for fans of manipulative non-heroic protagonists just make sure you don't let the initial awkward writing scare you off. It keeps getting better.

**Update**

Now having read up to Chapter 94, I can confidently say this story is excellent and well worth reading.

Superb story, which I binged read. It may not be for everyone due to a slow start. I love the in-depth examination of her character and her antics. MC pretends to be this innocent maiden (literally the most beautiful female in the world) but her elite assassin training is being put to good use.  Lots of mystery and suspense elements to it instead of just combat. Although when combat happens it is quite well described.

In the prologue of the story, it really sounds interesting, making me believe that the protagonist of the book is strong and is a highly skilled assassin, despite the fact that she got killed. But as I finished reading the first part of the series, I feel like that the character did nothing crucial at all. Every chapter is all about her thinking instead of her taking action to survive and kill her enemies in the world she transmigrated in. She can just sneak out at night and assassinate them. Although the body she reincarnated into was really weak, she must have some abilities useful for her to fight and hide her presence. She clearly states in a chapter when she was reading a magic book, saying that she is one of the strongest assassin in the organization. But the problem is, it's like she's not using her abilities as an assassin at the very best. She has her abilities, but she’s not using it. I agree and understand the reasons of why she has to act like a pure princess, but the fact is that she’s not taking any action to strengthen herself or to just kill or attempt to kill the enemies. I truly believe that a strong protagonist doesn't have to be strong physically and knows how to kill people, but also needs to be strong mentally. But the fact that when this book is based on a highly skilled assassin, it feels a bit wasted because there was not that much action. I also understand that you want to focus on world building in the first part, but I don’t see any character developments of her growing stronger physically or emotionally. The story is also slow, and the action was really late. 

If there were more actions and character developments in the first part, then I think that the story would be more exciting and worthwhile to read. I hope that the second part of the book will have more action and character developments, where the protagonist will grow strong and use her fighting abilities more. Despite my opinions of the first part, I'm looking forward to the second part of the series and I hope that someone exciting and thrilling would happen.

It's pretty good. I like the story and the plot, and the grammar is alright.

The story is about an assassin that got reincanated (Or is it transmigrated?) into a princess' body. She wants to be 'pure' and 'innocent', and pretends to do so. It was interesting, so I decided to read it.

It's told in first person, and it also has some JP novel vibes with all the 'you know'-s and all the fourth wall breaking. 

I personally don't really like all the extra 'you knows' but, if you want to read this story, you just gotta bear with it.

The style is alright, but it's too slow for my liking. So far, there only have been about two or three fights this whol time, and most of the chapters are spent on day-to-day life. 

I think the auther should add a 'slice-of-life' tag to the story, since that's what it seems to be for now.

The grammar is alright, with only punctuation errors like missing a comma in some places. It isn't bad enough to hinder the reader, but the story definetely has some flow issues.

An example of an issue I have is the MC narrating some parts of the story. It sort of just pops out to me, and I'm also sort of getting bored of getting reminded of her 'innocent, beautiful red eyes' every few chapters.

The characters are flat. Like, everyone panders to her wishes, and basically acts like servants to her. Her brothers are boring and predictable, and her father and mother almost have no presence in this story at all.

Her maid and the vernon act like stupid children. An old experienced man that used to serve the king, stammering becuase of a 'pure' princess.

The MC herself is too childish given her past. Maybe she deliberately acts like a kid to keep her sanity, but not only does she act like one, she thinks like one too. I get that she has to act like one for her desguise, but that doesn't mean she should always think like a kid.

Overall, this story isn't the most terrible I've read before, and I would recommend this to people who like JP vibes.

The story is rather difficult to read. 

There are many places where it is repetitive. Where some action or word is spoken, then the FPPOV repeats it narratively. 

There are a lot of awkwardly phrased sentences. And synonym word swaps that don't work. 

The pacing is very slow. First ten chapters all in day 1. 

The characters are fairly flat, but what little there is is often contradictory. This is especially a problem with the protagonist who has almost no self awareness. She often thinks one thing, and then does another. She often prides herself on certain skills, but so far all usage of those skills is rather terrible. All in all, it's rather frustrating. 

Not sure what the plot is. As noted, it's very slow paced with ten chapters covering one day. There's some hints when we switch POV about some bigger conspiracy, but the conspirators seem childish.