It is not often that a book makes me choke up. Heimin no Kuse ni Namaikina!, Volume 3 (平民のくせに生意気な！) made me choke up three times…even though I knew what was coming.  I appear to have a weakness, which I will discuss eventually. ^_^

This is the final volume of the Claire perspective of the events in I’m in Love With The Villainess, with a lot of “intermission”s from the perspectives of other characters. When the first two volumes came out, I noted that there are characters in this story that did not appear in the original… and many of the characters that do, are seen from such a vastly different point of view that what we thought we knew about them turns out to be not entirely true. Or truer than we thought.

This story also goes deeply into the circumstances around the death of Claire’s mother and the secrets being carried by the people around her.

Above all, in this story, we are given Claire’s perspective of her vastly changing life, from a high-ranking noble’s daughter to that of a commoner, with a beloved partner in Rae Taylor and two beautiful adopted daughters. It’s not the family life she expected, but she loves it, all the same.

Generally speaking with Light Novel “other” perspectives, I find them a little dull, but in this case, so much depth is added that it is well worth reading this series. She’s So Cheeky For A Commoner, Volume 1 (which I reviewed last year) is already available in English from Seven Seas and Volume 2 will be out in a few months. If you enjoyed the main series, whether Light Novel, anime or manga, I highly recommend you read this iteration. It’s going to add a lot of new information to what has happened. And may even move you to tears.

Ratings:

Art – 7
Story – 10 Outstanding writing, yet again
Characters – 10 I cannot express to you how *good* the characters are here
Service – 3? 4? A bit, sometimes
Yuri/LGBTQ+ – Why yes, actually.

Overall – 10