Tags: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Villainess, Isekai

The Worst Villainess and the Fiancé!

Another volume I’m late in reviewing, I’ve finally returned to Freesia’s saviour villainess in the third volume of Last Boss Queen.

In volume three, Prides’ precognition once again spells trouble for one of the love interests from the original game. This time, it just so happens to be Pride’s fiancé, who, after a supposed act of impropriety will be banished to Freesia never able to serve his people again. Determined to stop the game’s future, Pride and her knights travel to Anemone incognito to solve the mystery.

Much like its previous two volumes, volume 3 follows a very similar premise: “Pride does something evil in the game and now in the present is determined to stop it,” only after three volumes the formula has started to wear thin.

The main plot of saving her future fiancé isn’t as strong as those told in the previous volumes. For one, this storyline doesn’t cover the entire volume leaving some 100 pages for side stories, and whilst these can be good, such as the growing affections of Arthur and Stale, they’re no replacement for the main storyline.

Furthermore, the fiancé plot is done a disservice through the perspectives it uses. Arthur and Stales’ points of view take precedence for the first half of the story and it mainly involves them whining and whinging about the potential interloper taking away Pride’s affections. I would’ve much preferred a little more on Leon’s trips to the village or a perspective from the two brothers.

What I did find impressive stems from the plot’s resolution, discovering that Leon’s brothers were behind his downfall. Through precognition, Pride can see the horrible future that awaits the people of Anemone with the two of them in charge and it brings something out of her we don’t normally get to see. Anger, not only at the hopeless brothers but at herself, she sees their futures as similar and she can’t bare that outcome for herself or their people.

As for the new character Leon, he comes off as a bit of a flirt at first but as he’s freed from his terrible future there’s potential there, especially for taking Anemone into a new age of peace.

Last Boss Queen’s third volume falls short of the great potential shown in the first two volumes. Whilst the plot is still good and the resolution is nice, I feel as though both its length and Arthur and Stale’s constant whinging left me lukewarm on the volume. I’ll continue to read the next volume, hoping the series returns to form.