Since I Was Abandoned After Reincarnating, I Will Cook With My Fluffy Friends Volume 1

Oh my, isn't this adorable.

I picked up this book mainly for the food, and not only it gave me what I wanted, but the amount of fluffy moments with furry friends far exceeded my expectations. We have an entire horde of wolves, a cat, and even a griffin. I read that the author's dream is to win the lottery so they can build a penguin aquarium with a gigantic swimming pool. Honestly? Big mood. Totally relatable. You can really feel the love for both food and fluffy friends packed abundantly in this book, and I absolutely love it.

This story begins with the classic opening scene for a villainess story. Laetitia gets dumped by her fiancé, the crown prince, who has fallen in love with Sumia, the “heroine”. The book gives a surprising amount of details to the world-building and magic system, even going as far as revealing Sumia's background and connections. However, this part of the plot takes a backseat for the rest of the volume as Laetitia leaves her home country to marry Lord Aroo King Glenreed. From there, it's mostly light and delightful slice of life with plenty of cooking with fluffy friends. It doesn't seem like Laetitia will have to deal with Sumia and her ex-fiancé for the time being, so if you're expecting them to get what they deserve, it might have to wait until she returns to her homeland. Whenever that's going to be.

The main conflict in this book comes from the faction of Lady Natalie, the west villa's queen candidate. There are minor antagonists, and while their main role here is to stir up trouble, they also give some depth to some of the sub-characters as well as showing the issue of racism in Wolfvarte so it doesn't feel like they're mean just for the sake of being mean. Despite being a light slice of life read, the conflict is given proper development and resolution instead of getting cast aside as soon as it's over. The writing and translation are also easy to read. I will be keeping up with this series.

3.5

Super cute and the talk of food makes me sooooo hungry, but I do wish there was more romance.