Review Detail of CCmei in The Wicked Rose

I both love and hate this genre, as many people do. What can I say I'm a sucker for a good 2nd chance story, let alone a romance. As of ch9 though, it's a pretty weak set up and story. I love the background and premise- but that's where things start falling apart or not making sense the current timeline. On the the review. Technically the writing is fine. Safe 3 stars. But nothing that stands out or admirable. Very high quality for WN standards, but generally weaker, plain and definitely using some cliche lines in the speaking style. The author said that there will be POV chances in the future- and that's why the MC's name shown on the top, as it's likely to change. Updates: Full 5 stars. Story Development: Still too early to tell but my impression is underdeveloped. But really it's only been 9 chapters, so hard to judge. It seems to fast follow a very standard formula found in the summary of many stories in this genre. What's important is making it your own. 2 Stars. Character Development: So this MC is supposed to be a 28 year who went through all these tragedies, but now that she's reborn there's just so many actions that come off as random or exactly like this is what a young **** would imagine her to act instead of an older damaged person? She doesn't feel matured or damaged at all? Maybe her IQ was originally very low, idk? The side characters? Hmmmm it's too early, so they're all not fleshed out at all. The vilians introduced so far are bare bones of tropes, and I'm honeslty surprised why the 'stepmother' character is so weak. The love interest is set up already....but I can't get a read on his personality yet either. I do find it very unnatural though, especially when the author is pushing them to be flirting? So character development feels very weak to me thus far, World Backgound: Along with character development, the weakest aspect. It's a modern world and that's a lot of potential. But so many things fall short. The very few business aspects don't make sense (which is common for this genre). Some things read more like fantasy, maybe in another setting- the foundations of worldbuilding are weak. Someplace filler cut outs to make a set but not yet substantial/stand-alone. The author said they were inspired by other stories and such, and I completely understand. But the research and fact checking, isn't really there. It is still really early, and the story has plenty of room to grow. Tropes an cliches are popular for a reason, and can be twisted to one's own style into a great tale. My most sincere advice for this story is to fact check some things with this modern setting and relateable characters that readers want to root/stay for, Most importantly- don't be afraid to edit.