Can Someone Please Explain What’s Going On?! Volume 2

Can Someone Please Explain What’s Going On?! #2

by Tsuredurebana, Rin Hagiwara (Illustrator), Matthias Hirsh (Translator)

After entering into a contract marriage with noble superstar Cercis Fisalis to save her family from a life of debt, ‘show wife’ Viola is now faced with a new updated terms and conditions in said contract! What’s more, the duke still seems intent on wooing her and is not afraid to spend some dough to do it! Now that they’re living under the same roof, though, she finds herself slowly growing closer to him… but what’s this? Rumors about Cercis!?

Genres: Light Novel, Romance, Comedy

212 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 13, 2020

Reviews

[Rebecca · Rating 2 out of 5]

Still not great, but definitely improved by much less anachronistic language and getting some of Cercis' narration. He's still a twit (and a ninny), but at least we can see why.



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[Aelvana · Rating 2 out of 5]

Viola had made a nice life for herself without her in-contract-only husband Duke Cercis around, but now that he's taking an actual interest in her (and hanging around the house) she's finding it harder to do her own thing. As the Duke tries his best to woo her, she's trying her best to avoid him . . .

I still don't like the Duke at all, which is pretty much an insurmountable problem at this point for me continuing any of the series. At least when he was never around it was easier to imagine he actually kept up with his duties properly, but now that he's on the page more he's just really pathetic. I think authors have this weird idea that being a Duke/royalty maps to a normal office job (although to be fair, at least this guy has some military duties to fulfill).

But he just doesn't behave like someone actually RUNNING anything. He has no awareness of what's going on around him (especially with Viola). His knights are poorly disciplined at his house, and he just randomly invites them all over for dinner more than once.

Viola, for her part, finally remembered she actually had a family before now, and kind of misses them. I was puzzled why she made such a point in the first book of being lonely and coming from a good family life, but never so much as wrote them a letter.

Overall, this book was in some ways better than the first, but given my dislike of one of the central characters, I'm dropping the series. I rate this book Neutral.

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[Pieter · Rating 2 out of 5]

After having broken of his relation with his lover, Cercis now tries to woo Viola for real. Viola is not a typical noble woman though which makes things a bit more challenging. Volume 2 is more of a romance then volume 1 even though the duke is fumbling a bit. I probably would have liked it more if not for three things. Viola's dislike of money is one thing, but the image of poverty as depicted in the story is rather romantic. It is also rather extreme. Her getting extremely depressed over breaking a vase made me nearly drop reading. Finally, I get the sense Viola's personality was rather inconsistent. She was suddenly a bookworm despite not having shown interest in a book before? Her passive insecure nature did not help much either. All in all, not my kind of romance.

[Sharon L · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another delightful ride

This is the second installment, and here we see Cercis trying to win over Viola.
Well, let's just say he has his challenge cut up for him, and he has no one to blame but himself and his past behaviour for it.

[Kayla Ann Burns · Rating 3 out of 5]

Worth the read but again, everything that happened was expected.

[Angela Auten · Rating 5 out of 5]

This series is just super cute! I can't wait for volume 3!