What light novel(s) have you read this week, and what do you think about it? [December 04. - December 10.]
Making Magic: The Sweet Life of a Witch Who Knows an Infinite MP Loophole vol 4&5
Very decent continuation. The adventures around the globe are nice to read. Slow development of the base and making new acquaintances are points that I appreciate. 6.5/10
Min-Maxing My TRPG Build in Another World: Preach the Good Word of Mr. Henderson vol 1 For me this just doesn’t click. In the chapter “1.0 handerson” (last chapter) we got a plot hook but I expected something more akin to Turning Point from Mushoku Tensei.
The plot hook is provided at the end. Several dominant woman try to seize MC attention. Quite often MC is described as food or prey for them. Author tries to reinvent the wheel with world building when he doesn’t need to. The obvious stolen races with names exchanged, Buddha for some reason, complex magic and skill system that is opaque and unclear is quite jarring for me. 4/10
I’ve just read the bookworm when… 1 - 5 - Ascendance of a Bookworm fanfic. Light novel safe. It scratched my adventure itch and lathe itch. The plot and behavior of characters and fitting into established world feels a bit clunky but it doesn’t fail spectacularly in those regards. The trauma is portrayed quite gracefully. MC isn’t defined by it but also isn’t just shrugged either. 4/10
The Conqueror from a Dying Kingdom vol 6 Finished the prepubs so it isn’t quite fresh in my mind. Cliffhanger at the end of volume is BIG and as vol 7 came out recently in Japan I don’t expect to get licensed quite as fast as I would like. The intrigue, new revelations, relationships are quite good in this volume. As far the afterword goes it doesn’t seem that the story will go into the direction I was hoping to go. MC instead of facing new problems he will probably get rid off old problems. 8/10
In the chapter “1.0 handerson” (last chapter) we got a plot hook but I expected something more akin to Turning Point from Mushoku Tensei.
Just a heads up: The 1.0 Hendersons chapters at the end of each volume are “alternate universe” type of chapters that aren’t canon to the main story and stand completely alone (i.e. whatever plot hook there was for you, it’s not going to build upon in the 1.0 Hendersons chapter of the next volume).
Yes. I got it. I didn’t word it properly.
I have started reading vol 2 but I lost interest mid way when even more woman wants to dominate the MC.
I found that the entire arc beginning with volume 2 was very tiring for my taste but I enjoyed the last volume where arc 3 begins. But slugging though 3 or 4 volumes just to get to some better ones later on is a hard ask. I am just a die-hard Margit fan so I managed to power through the 2nd arc to get back to her.
I’m not sure what you mean by “dominate MC” but there is only one love interest in the series (so far no harem plot in sight - knock on wood).