Protagonists

  [ ] Hot garbage

  [ ] Boring boring boring

  [x] Serviceable

  [ ] Likeable leads

  [ ] I love them so much

Side Character

  [ ] Every character is terrible

  [x] Characters commit sin of being boring/generic

  [ ] Enough interesting characters to balance out the few terrible ones

  [ ] Likeable side characters

  [ ] Amazing characters all around

Antagonist(s)

  [ ] Hate them for the wrong reasons

  [ ] Cliché as hell

  [x] Serviceable

  [ ] Sympathetic or likeable enough that I don't want to hate them

  [ ] Love to hate them

Plot

  [ ] Average, generic plot

  [x] Average plot made interesting with creativity

  [ ] Crazy plot that is either so bad it’s good or just plain bad

  [ ] Unique plot that keeps you interested

Writing

  [ ] Terribly written

  [ ] Very simple but effective language

  [x] Average writing that does the job

  [ ] Beautiful but accessible writing

  [ ] Challenging

Short Summary:

The setting is a dungeon and dragonesque land where we meet our lead, Cinnamon, leaving a village celebration. In her drunken stupor, she stumbles upon Fallon, a demon, who attacks her. After smacking some sense into him with some cinnamon, she is forced to accompany Fallon on an adventure of revenge.

This is the typical instalove where the unwilling lady is forced into a situation with a handsome gentleman. The setup and setting is interesting. The tone is mainly light-hearted - even when violence is afoot. The writing and plot overall is fine but nothing groundbreaking. At some points, the fantasy setting feels interrupted when a characters starts talking like modern day twenty somethings. (”Who wouldn't want to go off on a grand adventure with a bunch of hot heroes also chosen by the goddess? Me bitches, no thank you.”).

The leads are fine. Cinnamon is strong-willed, clever and an overall good person. Fallon is the typical overprotective male love interest with amazing sex skills. They’re likeable but not memorable. So many side characters were introduced in the middle to end and were not really expanded on or particularly useful/needed. It felt like the author initially wanted to do something reverse harem-like but then had a time limit and just focused on Cinnamon/Fallon. The villain is...there. The focus is the romance so they just exist as the uninteresting glue keeping the plot going. 

This could be enjoyable if you are in the mood for something adventurous, romantic but short. There is some violence but not ridiculously graphic. There are sex scenes which are of course detailed.