Publisher: Tokyopop
Volumes: 5/5 (Complete), OOP, but not hard to find
Shoujo
Genre: Romance
Summary: Yenni is a selfish, money obsessed girl who is her school’s resident loan shark, lending money to her classmates at extremely high interest. After her parents died, she was left with only her memory of her mother’s insistence that money is everything. Her wealthy grandmother, hoping to change her granddaughter’s empty, money-obsessed heart, decided to use her will to teach her daughter a lesson: Marry the nice boy who used to live next door or lose her entire $10 billion inheritance to her grandma’s lawyer’s grandson! But her former neighbor hates her? And the grandson enters the picture and declares his love for her!
Review: This was a really hard manwha to review, I kept picking it up, struggling through it, and never quite finishing the series. The main problem is Yenni. Even if you buy the premise that her mother was a horrible shallow person who raised her likewise, she’s still very selfish, petty, and quite mean and violent.
Of course the series is supposed to be about her redemption, but she pretty much fights her every chance to become a better person every step of the way. Meanwhile, the two male leads/love interests are pretty decent guys who somehow both fall in love with her despite her horrible behavior, her nasty temper, her pettiness... etc. In hindsight, I think the creator really made her too unlikable. It also really only needed to be like 4 volumes at most. And the ending was.. basically an unresolved ending.
That being said, it was a decent premise, just not done well. It had some moments I liked in it, but was also greatly outnumbered by filler and “why don’t you just talk to her/him” moments. It’s really a shame, with some streamlining of the plot, making Yenni a more sympathetic character, it could have been a solid, fun read. This was turned into a K-drama, and I think it’s not hard to imagine it having being a good show, if they had fixed up those things.
Recommended: Not really recommended unless you are a fan of the K-drama or something.
Age Rating: PG13
Review: This was a really hard manwha to review, I kept picking it up, struggling through it, and never quite finishing the series. The main problem is Yenni. Even if you buy the premise that her mother was a horrible shallow person who raised her likewise, she’s still very selfish, petty, and quite mean and violent.
Of course the series is supposed to be about her redemption, but she pretty much fights her every chance to become a better person every step of the way. Meanwhile, the two male leads/love interests are pretty decent guys who somehow both fall in love with her despite her horrible behavior, her nasty temper, her pettiness... etc. In hindsight, I think the creator really made her too unlikable. It also really only needed to be like 4 volumes at most. And the ending was.. basically an unresolved ending.
That being said, it was a decent premise, just not done well. It had some moments I liked in it, but was also greatly outnumbered by filler and “why don’t you just talk to her/him” moments. It’s really a shame, with some streamlining of the plot, making Yenni a more sympathetic character, it could have been a solid, fun read. This was turned into a K-drama, and I think it’s not hard to imagine it having being a good show, if they had fixed up those things.
Recommended: Not really recommended unless you are a fan of the K-drama or something.
Age Rating: PG13
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