
Is Miss Pendleton Worth Reading? Review & Where to Read
Pleasant, patient, and a little too polite to be memorable, but the kind of comfort read you'll actually finish.
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Funny, warm, and one of the few 2000s shoujo romances where the joke is never really on the heroine.

This comedy is willing to make its heroines genuinely unlikable when they deserve it, which is exactly why it works.

The hook about a twin who finally stops covering for the sister who gets all the credit is strong; the plot that keeps making things up as it goes is not.

Having the female lead stay the stronger, steadier half of the pair the whole way through is rarer than it should be, and that alone makes the rocky opening worth pushing through.

Tanasia would rather redecorate than plot revenge, and that low-key ambition is both the charm and the ceiling here.

Yotsuha's return should feel like a rescue, and the fact that it doesn't quite is exactly what makes this worth following.

Barely anything happens here except two guarded people slowly letting each other in, and that turns out to be more than enough.

Two mistreated people slowly building trust is the whole appeal, and it earns that trust instead of rushing it.

That the dragon doesn't fight back is a better hook than most fantasy romances bother with — now it just needs chapters to prove it can sustain that idea.

Sweet leads and a fun premise carry it past a first act that moves faster than it should.