The First Night With the Duke

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Plot summary: A young woman from modern day Korea finds herself in the body of Ripley Liverpool, a side character of a romance novel. Though she intends to remain on the sidelines, she ends up almost immediately sleeping with Duke Zeronis. Oops!

Overall score: 8/10; This story is hilarious. Definitely a comedy/romance story. Ripley's reactions and expressions are hilarious, and she brings a unique facet of comedy to a world that was clearly meant for serious romance. The insistent pursuit of Ripley's heart by the Duke Zeronis is cute to read in this simple style manhwa. There are some points docked for a couple of story ... elements that occur within (without spoilers), but the main story is cute and handles the concept of an isekai well -- not entirely letting go of the modern world in its plot. The ending is gorgeously written.

TLDR; read for a lovely and funny romance with a consistently built plotline. With a rather simple plot and art style, it creates its own charm.

Summary: A college girl has her dreams come true when she wakes up into her favorite romance novel as Ripley, a comedic side character that makes it to the end of the story. Happy to life in the lap of luxury while watching the novel unfold in real time, she couldn’t ask for more… that is until she has a one-night-stand with the the MC’s love interest.

- Art, (7 / 10): The quality was solid with a pastel tone that gives certain scenes a “watercolor & ink” vibe at times.

- Story, (7 / 10): The initial premise feels like a dime of dozen nowadays, ... so the main draw is from the characters and how they play with the meta without it getting too complicated and contradicting the characters’ motives.

- Character, (8 / 10): The main draw for the series (in my opinion). Many times with stories like these, the main character is either dumb as bricks & but OP socially or calculated but completely inept to improvising on a social level. Ripley falls into the dumb but social category but she is somewhat aware of this, so it’s played to comedic effects instead of drama. And to top it off, the other character’s reactions to Ripley’s shenanigans makes it all the more enjoyable.

- Enjoyment, (7.3 / 10): Although there’s a dozen of otome-like webtoons to read, I always found myself checking back to this story to see what hair-brained idea Ripley is up to now. Sort of like Team Rocket, the plan isn’t always as expected but it works out in the end and gives me a good laugh.

Definitely Recommend 👍🏾

I will keep this short.

Positives
1. a decent comedy
2. Its a complete story with consistent pacing.

Negatives
1. Absolutely the dumbest and most irritating FMC ever. Almost made me drop the series multiple times.
2. A lot of plot feels contrived as it relies on FMC being dumb and making a tiny issue into a huge complicated melodramatic mess. 90% of the problems are a result of FMC not killing the villainess despite having multiple opportunities (and reasons) to do so.
3. Side characters are boring and shallow. They have their hilarious moments here and there, but are still very forgettable.
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Overall
Its a very forgettable series. Its not bad, but if you are going to read this, please keep your expectations low.