Is The Remarried Empress worth reading?
Is The Remarried Empress worth reading? Navier's divorce, the prince who writes her letters, and the argument readers have about who the villain really is.
The Remarried Empress (재혼 황후) is the rofan novel people recommend to friends who don't read rofan, which is a strange kind of fame. Is The Remarried Empress worth reading, or is it the webtoon that everyone loves? People who came from the webtoon say the novel is where Navier actually lives.
What The Remarried Empress is
Navier Ellie Trovi has been empress of the Eastern Empire since she was a girl, raised for the role beside Sovieshu, the emperor she married. She runs the court well and is respected for it, and she has no children. Sovieshu brings a runaway slave named Rashta into the palace as his mistress, and the balance of the story tips from there. The book opens on the divorce itself, with Navier agreeing on one condition: that she be allowed to remarry a man of her choosing, and the man is Heinrey, the prince of the Western Kingdom who's been sending her letters.
It's court politics with a romance inside it, told largely from Navier's careful, unshowy point of view.
Is The Remarried Empress worth reading for Navier?
Yes, and readers say it in the same words: composed, dignified, never a damsel. She doesn't cry where the genre usually cries, and the pleasure of the book is watching a very controlled woman decide what to do with a public humiliation. Heinrey is the other reason. Readers find him funny and gentle, a counterweight to the palace, and the letters between them get mentioned more than any single scene. The politics, the pettiness of the nobles and the slow way Sovieshu talks himself into ruin, get praise for feeling like a drama rather than a backdrop.
The book trusts restraint more than most of its genre does. Navier's coldness is the point, and readers who want her to explode are asking for a different novel.
What divides readers
Rashta and Sovieshu make people furious, which is the design, but some readers feel the story lays more blame on the mistress than on the husband who chose her. The buildup to the divorce runs slow for some, the melodrama runs hot for others, and the English translation gets the occasional complaint for stiffness. Readers who want a heroine who fights back loudly bounce off it.
It's for readers who like a quiet, competent woman in a loud court, and who'd rather see a marriage end with a signature than a slap.
Based on reader reviews; we'll write our own once we've finished it.
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