The Lady Likes a Nerd Over Princes Vol. 1-4


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Cheerful and free-spirited Sharina first met the studious and somber Riol when he saved her from mortal danger, and she fell in love with him at first sight. Using the adage, “the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach,” Sharina makes Riol homemade food in hopes it will get him to fall in love with her too. But instead, the delicious aroma catches the interest of the first prince of their country, Leonardo! Fascinated by how she’s unlike any other girl he’s met before, the prince claims Sharina as his own. Ever the arrogant narcissist, Leonardo can’t fathom how anyone could turn him down and his persistence crosses into the realm of harassment. Riol rescues Sharina, but at the cost of incurring the prince’s wrath! Can Sharina and Riol figure out a way to get the pompous prince to leave them alone?!

REALLY fucking cute jesus christ. i LOVE the leading couple. caretaker x workerbee. it’s so fucking wonderful.
the prince deserves to be kicked to the curb and deserves exactly what he got. i love how it pokes fun at a lot of stereotypical tropes and focuses on the fun little side characters instead. god it’s cute.

my favorite part has to be the fucking exchange of the little flower brooches. can’t work in real life (i thought about adopting it for an AU but uuuh my dude’s hair and eyes are brown what is he going to do, hand over a brown flower with brown leaves to his girlfriend?????? everyone be having fall foliage because we don’t have anime hair colors in alleria) but i love it anyway. it has lived rent free in my head since i read it. so cute.

Welcome to the Menagerie.

Here is where M logs their media activity. Partly because Goodreads is forgettable and keeping physical logs is harder. Sometimes M writes a lot. Sometimes M doesn’t write enough. It doesn’t matter. This is just a for-fun little blog so that M can remember what they thought about whatever they watched or read or played or. Whatever.


What is M?

I read. Voraciously. I have subscriptions to those book things on digital retailers. I consume books at nearly all hours. The hours I don’t spend reading? I’m writing. I’m drawing. I have a problem. I have a problem in that I love to read things that are in the same vein repeatedly. Book journals don’t work and as much as I text my friends screenshots of book passages, it doesn’t scratch the itch. Now I’m going to be doing… tiny… tiny book reports.


Truck-Kun Kill Count:


Books & Light Novels Read in 2025: 32/50
64%
Comics Read in 2026: 213/200
100%
Physical Owned Books Read: 460/823
56%


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