What do you do if you end up in an internet novel as a side character? Try not to get too involved with the main character and her love interests—well Dani tried that and failed miserably.
This was a hilarious story that left me wanting volume 2 ASAP. I love how the main girl, Yeoryeong, gives zero care to her love interests and her full attention is Dani. There is a hint at the beginning that Dani and Yeoryeong had a fight or something happened before Dani joined the world and I’m really curious what happened.

Can I get volume 2?! Omg this is a fun story about a girl that wakes up one day inside a novel. It's funny keeps you wondering how she'd end up there. I would love volume 2!!

Thank you to NetGalley and Ink Pop by RH Graphics for the ARC in exchange for an honest review!

Our main character is not the main character of the internet novel she has been transported into. This manhwa is cute and fun. Dani is the best friend of Yeoryeong, the beautiful female lead of an internet novel Dani fell asleep reading. It’s a pretty common trope in manga and a bit overdone as a whole HOWEVER, I still really liked how this one was done.

Instead of the female lead and best friend growing apart or the female lead becoming the antagonist, this manhwa did something different! Yeoryeong (so far) is completely uninterested in the male leads and is wholly consumed by maintaining her friendship with Dani. It adds a sweet, wholesome layer to it.

One of my least favorite parts of mangas/manhwas is the drama that always ensues with female jealousy. I think this might be my favorite rendition of “girl gets brought into the cliche book she’s reading” just because it lacks a lot of that drama.

There’s some interesting backstories given to some of the male leads so far and there’s some added mystery as we learn early on that Dani and Yeoryeong had a fight that we don’t know about. It kept me intrigued throughout the novel.

I honestly thought this was really well done and I will be reading more of the series as it comes out! I would recommend it!

Review to be posted on IG (@seas.library) before publication date.

Thank you to NetGalley and Random House for the opportunity to read the digital ARC!

I thoroughly enjoyed this first volume of this new graphic novel series. I think the characters were all likable and I’m looking forward to seeing what happens in the stories to come.

There is a pretty big cast and sometimes that can be overwhelming but I think it will be interesting to see how relationships within the group change and evolve in future volumes.

I enjoyed this as an adult reader but I think teens would really really love this. Especially teens into teen dramas and romance!

A very cute graphic novel about a girl waking up in a fictional world and has to survive in the new world full of plot tropes. I am excited to see how the story progresses.

This is probably the BEST I've read in a LONG time..I NEED more..im sick throwing up needing more. It has everything you need!

A cute isekai that feels like a cute romance sim.

The main character is sensible and likable. The best friend is so sweet and maybe a love interest as well.. AND the boys feel like they have a personality. I can't wait to continue this series in volume two!

firstly, thank you to the publisher for an arc!

this volume collects episodes 1-16 of the popular webtoon of the same name, and while it was a fun and quirky volume with great art and beloved typical tropes, i definitely have questions about dani and her relationship with the other five main characters! i’ll look forward to some of my questions being answered in volume two!

As someone who watches a lot of k-dramas this was a treat to read! Our main character Dani is no stranger to web novels and knows all the tropes by heart so when she wakes up in a romanticized version of her life she's not going to fall prey to her new beautiful best friend or the equally beautiful five male leads - or is she?

This graphic novel follows Dani, a middle-school aged girl who seemingly gets transported into an internet novel. There seems to be a wide array of supporting characters, the male love interests are all unique. The red haired one (Eunhyung) punching the bully made me laugh so hard. I hope she ends up with the black haired guy (Chunyoung), but something seems fishy about him. He seems to see right through the FMC.

The timeline jump 3 years into the future threw me off, but other than that, I loved it! This story feels like it will get messy, and I am here for it.

Thank you Netgalley and Random House Graphic for the free copy of this graphic novel in exchange for my honest review.

I don't normally choose books for myself based in middle/high school, but I wanted to give this one a shot, and I'm so glad I did. Shen Qing Qiu-level isekai protagonist, and an art style that at times throws me right back into that classic 90s anime state of mind. I truly love this, and I will absolutely be checking out the rest of the books, even though I just knowww my two favorite love interests won't be endgame.

My Life as an Internet Novel is a fun and charming read filled with a full cast of characters. The story drops you right into the plot with Dani noticing that her school uniform is all wrong and that it looks like something out of a novel. This quick start can be a bit disorienting at first. After all, we don't know why or how Dani's life became a novel.

In fact, I want to pause and really emphasize that Dani's life BECOMES novel-like, because she isn't actually inserted into a book. She still lives in her apartment with her real mom, but suddenly she has a neighbor who is her childhood friend, and her school has been replaced with another one.

It's a fun and different concept from what we normally see in these types of stories.

Additionally, because we're inserted into the plot so quickly, the how and why this happened becomes an actual mystery in the book, and while it's not a major focus as of volume 1, there's enough hints and foreshadowing that suggest we will learn about the events that led to Dani's life becoming a novel.

As for the characters, we're introduced to them in all of their tropey-glory, and its wonderful. The story takes a few lighthearted jabs at internet novel tropes, but you can tell that they are done with love, and ultimately the story embraces those tropes. It's part of what makes it fun.

Also, you can tell that there's going to be more to these characters as the story progresses, and it's exciting to see where the story goes with them.

So I am very much happy to have received an advanced reader copy from NetGalley. This book was such a treat, and I'm not sure if I would have found it on my own otherwise.

Thank you, Netgalley and Random House Children's Books for this ARC.

I absolutely adored this novel. Our main character, or rather, side character Dani, wakes up in a romanticized web novel version of her life. She now has a lifelong best friend whom she knows nothing about and a group of stunning guys that just so happen to be in her class. It sounds great, right? But Dani doesn't feel that way at first; she can spot all the tropes a mile away and doesn't want to be caught up in this world. Can she avoid all the tropes and find her way back home as the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur? Overall, the novel was enjoyable, but it is a setup for the following novels. Towards the end, it started to jump between multiple timelines, which was a tad confusing because it seemed to jump around often. I'd recommend this to fans of isekai and romance, but with a warning about the confusing timeline.

Such a fun time! Dani wakes up to realize she’s been sucked into an internet novel where everyone looks like a model and is incredibly talented—and she’s the side kick. It was fun watching Dani react to living through the tropes she’s read so many times before. A lot of this book was laying the ground work for the next volumes, so really looking forward to the next volume. Fun time!

Thank you to Netgalley and Random House Children's Books for The ARC.

I really liked this! It felt very much real to what someone getting Isekai'd into a novel would act like. None of the love interested seem into her and seem to be into her friend. Dani is super relatable in her actions and relatability. I will say she did seem to act a bit cruel in the beginning, but i love how in the end she realized how wrong she was in. It shows she's not perfect, she has her flaws, and that makes her all the more human. While there's still not much going on in the first volume, I'm excited for the next volume based on some of the flashbacks we got this volume!

My Life as an Internet Novel: Volume 1 delivers exactly what the title promises: a modern, meta take on the isekai genre. The premise is instantly engaging—a regular girl finds herself transported into the world of a cliché-riddled internet novel she was reading, cast not as the beloved heroine or the villainess, but as a forgettable side character destined for a bad ending. It’s a fantastic setup that taps directly into the current wave of self-aware web novels, and for the first few chapters, it crackles with potential.

The strongest aspect of this volume is its protagonist. Her voice is relatable, laced with the appropriate amount of panic, sarcasm, and desperate ingenuity. Her internal monologue, filled with comparisons to novel tropes and comment-section-style reactions, is genuinely funny and feels fresh. The world-building, while simple, effectively establishes the rules of this "novel world" and the stakes of her situation.

Synopsis
Dani wakes up one day and everything feels ever so slightly off. Her uniform is different, her school changed names, she has a new BFF across the hall, and there’s four gorgeous guys as classmates. It almost feels like she’s the side character in a romance light novel? Should she play along or try to find a way back home?

Thoughts
This was a good read! It has the stereotypical light novel setting but the approach the author takes really adds a breath of fresh air. Dani isn’t supposed to be the main female lead, she’s the side character, which comes with its pros and cons. None of the love interests are for her and she’ll get bullied on the main character’s behalf but at the same time maybe she can live a quiet side character life.
I do also find the balance of “do I really want to live in a light novel that might disappear at any moment” versus “should I enjoy my new found friends” really cool (and sad at the same time). I’m excited to continue the series and see how Dani handles her new life!

Thank you Random House for providing this book for review consideration via NetGalley. All opinions are my own.

Dani wakes up one morning to a world that is definitely not her own. Her school doesn't exist, she has a best friend (who is gorgeous) she's never met, and she is the all of sudden linked up with the Four Heavenly Kings, the hottest, most eligible students in the middle school she's supposedly enrolled in. It doesn't take her long to figure out that Dani has somehow been transported to an internet novel! To make matters worse she's not even the MC, she's the MC's sidekick! As the stereotypical "ugly" but fiercely loyal bestie to Yeoryeong Dani is determined not to get mixed up in the drama she knows being best friends with the clueless hottie brings!

This was absolutely adorable and why I love manga/manhwa so much and I am so beyond grateful that Ink Pop has recognized that there is a manga/manhwa for every shelf whether it's the lowest one for the tiniest hands to find or the top one for us 41-year-olds and every age in between! Honestly, this is the most excited I've been about a new branch of a publishing company for ever!

Okay moving on to the actual review.

Dani's reaction to being Isekai'd to a novel is probably one of the most realistic I've seen. Honestly, as much as I say I can't wait to be Isekai'd I would absolutely think I'd lost my mind or everyone else had. Her denial, her shock, her actual fear of what was happening made sense. I also loved that her mom seems to have been transported too. I don't know what but that just makes sense, I also feel like having someone familiar to you (even if they think everything is completely normal) would be helpful. What didn't make a lot of sense to me is Dani's decision to try to avoid Yeoryeong, I get the logic, I truly do but regardless of how they met, it was just very cruel. And unfortunately, we seem to keep coming back to this theme of *all* of Dani's friends in her new world being constantly fearful she'll just ditch them. However, towards the end Dani says something that makes this make complete sense, especially viewed through the eyes of a middle schooler so I am beyond okay with it now. It 100% gives validation to her fears and why she chooses to try not to get too close.

I also really loved that this is told from the present day with flashbacks to previous years. It really does drive home Dani's insecurities. But it also shows how she has grown and changed since she first woke up in her Internet Novel Life.

Finally, the art is gorgeous as well. Dani's and Yeoryeong's expressions are especially priceless.

Highly recommend this for YA and adult readers alike, I will definitely be reading vol 2 and you can bet I'll be on the lookout for an anime announcement!

As always thanks to NetGalley and a very special thanks to Ink Pop for the eArc! This is going to rapidly become one of my favorite publishers I can already tell!!

⭐️⭐️⭐️.5!!

Thank you Random House Children's Books for the
ARC in exchange for an honest review!

I had so much fun with this manga It was a little all over the place, but the concept was super interesting and I honestly loved all the characters and how they fit into the story. Some parts felt a bit repetitive or thrown in just to stretch things out, and the time loops definitely confused me, I found myself flipping back a few pages more than once to make sure I hadn't missed something. Still, I'm really into it and excited to see where the second manga goes, and I have a lot of hope for this series!!

"Is Dani about to break her number one rule and fall prey to the plotline?"

Imagine waking up to find your entire world has changed—you suddenly have a new best friend you’ve never met, and nothing feels the same. To make it even stranger, no one seems to know the school you’re supposed to be attending. As the main character struggles with the thought that she might be going crazy, she eventually realizes she’s inside an internet comic, with her life playing out like one of its storylines. She has no idea how she ended up there, but now she’s along for the ride with the group she’s been thrown in with. The art is beautiful and sets a perfect tone for this unique and engaging story.