YMMV / I'm the Queen in This Life

• Base-Breaking Character: Ariadne is easily one of the most controversial and hotly discussed characters in the otome isekai/Peggy Sue genre. Plenty of virtual ink has been spilled over whether she's a bad or good person considering her past life, if her actions are justified, is she deserves to be with Alfonso, if she's just as bad as Isabella, and so forth.
  • Alfonso as well. Plenty of people complain about him being just a bland Nice Guy, while others think he's a breath of fresh air among sadly numerous victorious "Cold Dukes of the North" of the genre.
• Draco in Leather Pants: Cesare. So far in the comic he displayed a more complex personality than the unequivocally good Alfonso, and has garnered some fanbase that enjoys his unapologetic bad boy persona.
• Funny Moments: Maletta claims she has some valuable information regarding Ariadne's half-siblings. Skip to her prattling about Ippolito's sexual proclivities (complete with posing) and how Isabella pads her boobs.
• Narm: The religious debate in chapter 11/12 is so over the top it comes across as this.
  • The author has some issues with timing and pacing. This is particularly jarring in the chapters concerning Arabella's death. Ariadne leaves for what could be at most several hours, only to come back to the house already in mourning and Arabella packed into the coffin.
  • Same goes for the cardinal's birthday dinner, where Ariadne brings out and discusses Lucrezia's fraudulent ledgers. That's not how it's done in reality, people.
• Ship-to-Ship Combat: Alfonso/Ariadne vs Cesare/Ariadne. Downplayed, since Cesare made a deservedly terrible first impression on readers and most don't want Ariadne to take him back, but he redeems himself somewhat by saving her twice to his own detriment. The situation isn't helped by the fact they have decent chemistry and banter in the second timeline, and Ariadne still has some lingering feelings for him, as well as them being engaged again for a while while Alfonso is away.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Isabella, to the point where her first and second timeline personas could be considered two completely different characters. In the first one Ariadne had absolutely no idea how she really was, even though they've known each other for 15 years and Isabella comes across as an actual Chessmaster who laid low all that time only to reap her reward at the very end. Her pre-mortem speech to Ariadne also has many valid points, and early on many readers praised her for it. Come the second timeline, Isabella is mostly an obviously vapid bimbo with some low cunning, whose main weapons are only her looks and spreading lies, and who gets easily undermined by Ariadne, yet, irritatingly and irrationally, still bounces back because everyone around her seems to have memory of a goldfish. The fact that Ariadne was apparently smart enough to be pulling all kinds of strings to make Cesare the king in the first timeline, yet got duped by someone of Isabella's intelligence is pretty jarring.
  • Everyone has blind spots. Isabella was able to lie low because she did not need to go against Ariadne in the first timeline until the very end. Also we have not seen first timeline Isabella do more than seduce Cesare at the last minute and order Ariadne murdered. Plus, in the second timeline Isabella is a teenager. A teenager will come short to an adult woman.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: Almost everyone in this story is either a ruthless schemer with varying levels of competence or just stupid. Lucrezia's family in particular is comically evil. Some readers also expressed frustration with mob scenes, where people are instantly swayed this or that way with either Isabella's lies or Ariadne's rationale.
  • Arabella's death made at least several readers ragequit the series, albeit it arguably did drive the point home that not everything in the past can be changed.
• The Woobie: Arabella. At first she comes across as a Spoiled Brat, but it quickly becomes apparent her mother hates her while doting on her older siblings, her father sees her as just another financial burden on him due to her sex, and her universally adored older sister disregards her at best and bullies her at worst. The only person she has is Ariadne, who's often too busy to spend time with her. She eventually dies after her older sister pushes her down the stairs and her mother refuses to call the doctor to save money, while she's still aware of her surroundings. The only member of the family attending her funeral is Ariadne.