{"id":2535,"date":"2024-05-20T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=2535"},"modified":"2024-05-18T11:50:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T18:50:07","slug":"book-manhwa-the-remarried-empress-by-alphatart-sumpul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/05\/20\/book-manhwa-the-remarried-empress-by-alphatart-sumpul\/","title":{"rendered":"Book (Manhwa): The Remarried Empress by Alphatart, Sumpul"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Remarried Empress
<\/strong>by Alphatart, Sumpul
published by Webtoon<\/a> (174 chapters, 3 seasons, ongoing)
2020 – present<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While I am tired of reading about royalty, the fact that royalty are always at each others’ throats does make for light entertainment. [Sound] Oh, I meant in fiction. <\/em> What? [Conversational sounds.] Yes, I suppose that’s also true in real life, but the characters are more compelling in fiction!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navier grew up as the designated empress-to-be, and was childhood friends with emperor-to-be Sovieshu. They married, appeared to make a great couple, and Navier proved herself to be an effective empress, picking up Sovieshu’s slack. However, as the story opens, Sovieshu is demanding a divorce in favor of his childish mistress. Navier shocks everyone by not only accepting the divorce, but demanding remarriage to the emperor of a neighboring state, who makes an entrance and marries her on the spot!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did we get here? That’s what the first two seasons set out to explain, while the third season proceeds once we’ve caught up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comic features: men who like their women childlike and dim; the stress of losing a not-great partner to a tantrum-throwing younger woman (I was going to joke that ‘we’ve all been there,’ but realized I have<\/strong> experienced this, and am unsure how to make it funny beyond assuring you that it is funny)<\/em>; blackmail; love potions that might work; pity; people who think power means being able to mutilate one’s own domestic staff; an empress who trained for one job her whole life, and isn’t sure how to pivot; divorce lawyers; love letters delivered by unusually clever birds — a reason not to EVER eat birds for dinner; secrets; regret; an attractive man with an improbably muscled torso standing in a fountain in a way that burns his likeness into Navier’s mind…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The art evolves over the course of the story in a way I like: the lines firm up in pleasing ways, so give it some time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a story that teaches us to let go of partners who aren’t that nice to us, and let them reap what they sow; to accept flirty love letters from pretty birds, and flirt right back; to do right by people; not to harm the family members of journalists; to get to know friendly men who look amazing naked after you spy them in abandoned places; and to find a place that will appreciate your leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Remarried Empress by Alphatart, Sumpulpublished by Webtoon (174 chapters, 3 seasons, ongoing)2020 – present While I am tired of reading about royalty, the fact that royalty are always at each others’ throats does make for light entertainment. [Sound] Oh, I meant in fiction. What? [Conversational sounds.] Yes, I suppose that’s also true in real … <\/p>\n

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