My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Volume 1

Today’s post is on My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Volume 1 by Satoru Yamaguchi. It is 261 pages long and is published by J-Novel Club.  The cover has the main character Katarina and the two princes on it. The intended reader is someone who is interested in Japanese novels, otome game tropes, and silly comedy. There is no foul language, no sex, and no violence in this novel. The story is told from the first person perspective of characters Katarina in the first part and a side character in the second half of the chapter. There Be Spoilers Ahead.

From the ebook blurb- After hitting her head particularly hard one day, Duke Claes' daughter, Katarina, suddenly recalls all the memories of her past life: that of a teenage Japanese girl. Just before her untimely death, this girl recalls playing an otome game... that is exactly like the world she's living in now!
She is now Katarina Claes, the antagonist of the otome game, who nastily hounded the protagonist until the end. Knowing all the possible outcomes of the game, she realizes that every single possible route ends with Katarina being murdered or exiled! In order to avoid these Catastrophic Bad Ends, she has to use her knowledge of the game and her own wiles, starting with breaking off this engagement with the prince...
Will Katarina survive while making her way through this world, where bad flags trip at every turn? Find out in this reverse-harem rom-com, led by everybody's favorite villainess!

Review- I loved this novel so much! Everything about this novel is great, Katarina is hilarious and so clueless about her effect on people; the way the other characters react to her and seeing how it all goes over her head; the ways that Katarina tries to stop the bad ends from happening. The plot itself is fine but it is Katarina that makes this story so much fun. As she recovers her memories she makes plans to stop all the bad ends from happening, like to be friends with her new adopted brother but in doing so he falls in love with her. And so goes the story, Katarina doing the complete opposite of whatever the character Katarina did in the novel and makes people love her without her realizing it. The first volume ends with Katarina going to the school where the main story takes place and she has plans to survive the plot no matter what. I cannot wait to meet the heroine from the game and see what havoc she is going to bring.

I give this novel a Five out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I was given this novel as a birthday gift.