The fiancee chosen by the ring vol 1 by yue matSuyuki

Adapted and illustrated by Jyun Hayase
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Lady Aurora Porta is the daughter of a minor count and doesn’t get invited to high society functions all that much. But when she does, she takes the opportunity to indulge in one of her favorite pastimes - studying embroidery. At parties, she’s specifically looking at patterns on the ladies’ dresses and trying to learn more for her own embroidery patterns. At the latest affair, she is hit in the forehead with a ring, a ring that was chucked by Sir Felix, who is so tired of his constant barrage of suitors that he chucked his ring randomly and declared who it hit to be his bride-to-be. Between Sir Felix' duties as a guard for the Crowned Prince and Lady Aurora's special embroidering, the new couple has a lot on their plate in this slightly humorous romantic fantasy.

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The pace of this entire first volume was pretty quick compared to other romance and fantasy titles. Within the first few pages, the couple has worked out an agreement, and by the end, we're given an entirely new plot line to focus on away from how they met. The two grow accustomed to each other pretty quickly, possibly because they come to a mutually beneficial agreement that isn't really about marriage. This might backfire later if Porta becomes the subject of multiple suitors and Felix is one of them. We hardly get to know him before more men are falling over each other to get Porta's attention! There is still quite a lot of potential in this story, so I'll definitely be moving on - I just hope we get to learn more about Felix before we totally move on.

Yen Press rates this for Teens for language. There is a little bit of violence as the knights practice their sword-work, but there's only a little bit of bloodshed in this first volume.

Sara's Rating: 8/10
Suitability Level: Grades 8-12

Publisher: Yen Press
Publication Date: June 14, 2022
ISBN: 9781975338909 (Paperback)

Tags: Rating: 8/10, Suitability: Middle School, Suitability: High School, Manga, ​Fantasy, Romance, Magic, Yen Press