Hell Mode: Volume 7 - I find myself skipping entire pages whenever the book goes on and on about skill/summon composition of the cast. It has become feeling stale even though the story itself is progressing steadily. I also cannot really connect with any of the characters. In one of the last chapters, there is a side story from the POV of a side character and in those few pages, I already care more about that character than the 8 from the main cast. - 4/10

Min-Maxing My TRPG Build in Another World: Volume 8 - There are portions of beautiful prose and great world-building whenever the author isn’t beating the TTRPG schtick to death. I hope the series will develop like Overlord where the gimmick gets used less and less as the story takes more center stage. Also Margit. Extra points for Margit. The two new party members could be annoying since they are trope-y but the book and MC acknowledge that they are literal walking tropes and that makes all the difference. - Great volume 8/10

Thanks. I have put Kunon the Sorcerer Can See and The Princess of Convenient Plot Devices on my plan to read list. I have skipped both since the official synopsis read too cliche.

Glad you enjoy the series, but this community is for Japanese Light Novels only. (the term “Light Novel” comes from the type of Japanese books and isn’t meant in the sense of “light reading”).

I have to look up my cliffs notes about Death’s Daughter I posted here (btw. posting here weekly what I’ve read is great when I have to remember what I thought about a series - I highly recommend doing this wink wink) but I think I remember that I felt that the main character was very flip-floppy with her personality. If the author wanted to push in a certain direction the MC was dumb like a piece of bread and the next moment she was super attentive. Very inconsistent. Apothecary Diaries is great though, so I recommend starting with that.

The Retired Demon of the Maxed-Out Village: Volume 2 - Managed to finish this volume. I liked the first one well enough but this time it was a drag to read through. The series seems to follow an approach where it revolves around the story of a different visitor to the village in each volume. The visitor in this volume didn’t do it for me at all. I really couldn’t care less about whether she lived or died and that made it so sluggish to read. The people I wanted to read about were just set dressing with very little screen time (word time? page time?). I’m not sure if I continue this series. - 3/10

Only Kuma Kuma Bear and Isekai Peddler for ongoing series but the RV, Exiled Noble and Merciless Maiden first volumes sound interesting enough to give them a try. My move is mostly done but I’m still not finished with Like a Dragon 8 and Persona3Reload is also on deck. Who knows when I find the time to give them a read.

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First time in a while that I haven’t finished anything for a week. I started “The Retired Demon of the Maxed-Out Village: Volume 2” but it has been a drag and then I spent the entire weekend with Kiryu and Ichiban in Hawaii so I couldn’t finish it.

Min Maxing and Hell Mode for me. And maybe I pick up Fluffy Paradise. I find the anime airing this season (mildly) entertaining enough. And I wanted to give the first volume of Jam in the Woods a try as well.