Cross-Dressing Villainess Cecilia Sylvie, (Light Novel) Vol. 3

悪役令嬢、セシリア・シルビィは死にたくないので男装することにした。[Akuyaku Reijou, Cecilia Silvie wa Shinitakunai no de Dansou suru koto ni shita.] (Novel) #3

by Hiroro Akizakura

Still disguised as her male alter ego, Cecil, reincarnated villainess Cecilia Sylvie discovers that the only surefire method of averting her death is raising all the heroes’ affections enough to enter the True Love Route. But Eins and Zwei, twins whose scenarios she never completed in her past life, are proving an uphill battle. As if that weren’t bad enough, the siblings seem to be hiding something... Meanwhile, escalating advances from Oscar and Gilbert have Cecilia’s heart racing! Will she be able to uncover the twins’ secret while hiding her own? Her life depends on it!

Genres: Light Novel, Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance

231 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 1, 2021

About the author

秋桜ヒロロ

Reviews

[Rebecca · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the closest thing to Bakarina that I've found.

[Mariela · Rating 3 out of 5]

At this point I am reading because I feel the deepest sympathy for the abandoned MC. She has no emotional allies at all. I just want to know that she's gonna be ok. She is sweet, naive and actually heroic. Everyone really is in it for themselves here at this point except for poor Cecilia who is the only one in real danger but goes out of her way to help everyone else. We finally get a story point where someone (ANYONE!!) could tell Lean off and put her in her place but instead she gets to stand in the middle and make a speech like she's the f-ing hero! And everyone treats her like she's a victim but it was literally her f*ck up that caused everything! Her half-assed apology to Gil is just bait to continue manipulating Cecilia's emotions for her amusement. While I don't care about the other characters, it makes her a scumbag for the way she casually abuses Cecilia for her personal amusement and greed. At this point I kinda hope this ends with Cecilia/Hiyono waking up in a hospital and the whole adventure was a comma induced dream. On a side note: it was nice that Grace showed some humanity and really stepped up to help Cecilia with the information she was missing.

[Audry Lemke · Rating 1 out of 5]

Gender Queer Ideology

I only tried reading the book because of the Manga. I am seriously disappointed that the author has totally made Cecelia a dumb twit as if that is supposed to be endearing. At the 50% Mark is where Cecelia dressed as Cecil has a direct conversation where Oscar processes his feelings knowing that Cecil is Cecelia. I can tell the author is a woman because she puts a speech out through the Prince Oscar that gender doesn't matter he loves who he loves and that is just stupid. Men and women are different. The author trying to normalize boy love is kinda gross.

Think about it. This is supposed to be based off a SIM game where there is a Holy Maiden. The country is religious and the character lean is trying to normalize deviant homosexual behavior. Cecelia acts stupid like no free will to stop playing into the fantasy of her friend who is into boy love fantasy. The fact that none of these guys put up any fight for ruining the reputation of higher nobles or their own when lean writes about them with pictures of gay love is hard to swallow in this society when the author mentioned how the lean from the game had it hard since she was raised as a commoner.

I think the author is seriously over sexed and is losing the plotline. It makes her story boring and woke preachy. I will not buy or read any future Manga of this author. When all the characters focus on looks and only attraction without much character this is a total letdown. Can only hope this author grows up and experiences relationships since she obviously can't write much about anyone having one.

[Jina · Rating 2 out of 5]

There are a few things about the story that are starting to irritate me, but I'm so the most irritating thing for me is Lean/Ichika. She doesn't care that her money schemes/fangirl hobbies are causing trouble for Cecilia/Hiyono. Lean comes off as a toxic friend and I hope Cecilia will see that in this life and the past that Lean is a bad person to have as a friend.

[Erika · Rating 3 out of 5]

今まで名前だけ出てきて他の情報が一切物語に登場しなかった、「アイン」「ツヴァイ」の双子に焦点が当てられた回。
（正直、そのネーミングはどうかと思うけど....軽くドイツ語分かる人なら、まんま１と２(ein/zwei)って名前。親の神経を疑ってしまう。）
ミステリ要素も「双子もの」なら想像の範囲内のもの。
だが、「障り」に関する大きな謎の流れは興味深い。ダンテを送り込んだという隣国の王子も、今まで名前がちらっと出てくるだけだったけど、存在感がじわじわと強くなってるし。
相変わらず主人公をめぐる「三角関係」はどうなるのかわからない展開だが、両社とも同じくらいの見せ場と「告白」シーンがあるので、著者的にもどちらと決めずにシリーズ終えるつもりかな、と思ったり。
(どっちかが主人公と両想いになったら、もう片方のファンがブーイングしそうだし)

...ラノベなので読みやすいし続きも気になるけど、やはり薄っぺらい。
宗教と国政の話や、伝説の創造の話など、結構深い話もちらっと出てくるので、この著者がもっと文学的なスタイルで物語書いたらどんな物語になるのか知りたいな、と思った。