What light novel(s) have you read last week, and what do you think about it? [September 23 - September 29]
What light novel(s) have you read last week, and what do you think about it? [September 23 - September 29]
Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord: Production Magic Turns a Nameless Village into the Strongest Fortified City Vol. 3 - Just like the first 2 volumes it's entertaining but it needs to get shaken up a bit with the actual plot. The entire volume is basically "and then I build another house, and then another, and over there I build some more houses....etc.".
Victoria of Many Faces, Vol. 1 - Beautiful, sweet and overall great volume. Incredible MC, loveable sidekick, and a sweet romance with a likable love interest. The author is really great at writing the type of Slice of Life romance I enjoy just as it was in Soup Forrest. The volume itself feels completed with everything but one minor plot thread neatly finished and wrapped up. But Goodreads has it with 3 volumes already. It's a bit like how Bookworm finished one part of MC's life and left open the option for a continuation when a new chapter of her life starts. Looking forward to the next one.
A Young Lady Finds Her True Calling Living with the Enemy Vol.1 + 2 - After enjoying Victoria of Many Faces so much I picked up this series by the same author. It's another hyper-competent heroine story and you can see a lot of the same broad strokes as in Victoria - just a bit more rough around the edges. The second volume was extremely rushed and the romance had hardly any space to breathe and grow. The content there was rushed so much that it could have easily filled 2 or 3 more volumes if it had been paced like the first volume. And the extra space would have done the romance aspect well. It honestly feels as if the author had planned content for more books but got told there would be only one more and now he had to get it all into this 2nd volume somehow.
Not much LN this week but a couple of Web Novels and Manga
Waking Up As a Spaceship!? What’s a Ship Girl Supposed To Do Now?! - Really nice Space Opera Isekai about guy turned into AI. The chemistry between characters is quite good. Writing is decent. The international intrigue is there. World building is just a mix of different games like Elite Dangerous, EVE online etc. with claque of USA, UK and Japan as Space Empires. Sadly the author probably died during 2020 pandemic and there wasn't any more updates after that.
Reincarnated into Two Bodies - Fantasy Isekai but narrator has two bodies. The potential is there for some great shenanigans but for now I don't feel like it has gotten into its peak. I feel like there is a prologue and half of an story arc. (Maybe it will fill my bookworm hole with weekly chapters)
How does this two-bodies thing work? Is his consciousness split between the two bodies, or does it switch between them? Or are there now two distinct consciousnesses that are a clone of each other at the time of reincarnation?
The emotions and fantasy skills are split but thinking and consciousness are connected. There are couple of interesting choices by the author about the mechanic like MC can't wake up themselfs. I fear that the author will disregard some things that were previously established.
spoiler for chapter 30
There is a plot hook for romance between themselfs but I guess it will be more of a comedic gag.