Daniel Schinhofen‘s first Antecedents’ Legacy novel turned out quite different from the other two series of their’s I’ve read. What mainly stands out, in a bad way, is the protagonist’s pronounced horniness alongside the poorly thought-out setting. Moving in combat is lost-tech? Seriously?
The first of Vanessa Rhoswen‘s Reborn Villainess novels starts out rough due the cartoonishness of the villainy on display. Although events then pick up nicely for a time post-regression, it unfortunately soon becomes clear that the protagonist is an idiot. She keeps talking about how she’s a master schemer despite her future schemes having failed miserably and having only managed to destroy her own family (unintentionally). The ‘let’s pretend to faint instead of doing literally anything else’ scene where she ends up concussing herself was one straw too many.