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Why is it impossible to be both kind and smart for the lead character?!

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Roads Lead to Doom! (light novel volume 7) by Satorou Yamaguchi, Nami Hidaka

October 24, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Quick Premise review: a modern day Japanese schoolgirl dies after being hit by a car and wakes up as the villainess in her favorite romance role-playing video game. She uses her knowledge of the game to avoid the bad endings for her character, but now she finds herself in the sequel which did not get a chance to play during her previous life. Finally there is some actual worldbuilding and some actual characters develop in My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to […]

Light Fluff is Good Sometimes

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Vol. 5 by Satoru Yamaguchi, Nami Hidaka

May 7, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

So certain times of year coincide with heavier professional workloads, and when that happens, I tend to gravitate towards much lighter reading, things like My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! (volume 5). This is a light novel series that has been turned into both a manga and an anime. The premise is that a high school girl obsessed with a certain kind of video game dies, and is reincarnated as the antagonist of her favorite dating video game. A bump […]

A- for general story, B for narration and characterization, overall entertaining fluff

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Vol. 4 by Satoru Yamaguchi, Nami Hidaka

January 17, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

In some ways I am about to continue my most recent review. A while back I thought I was ordering volume 4 of the manga (see previous review) when what I actually ordered and what showed up was volume 4 of the light novel series upon which the graphic novels are based. What this means is that the story is further along. The question then becomes do I read the book I accidentally bought even thought that means I may be missing some in-between that […]

I’m not sorry this one’s almost over

The Alchemist Who Survived Now Dreams of a Quiet City Life (Vol. 4) by Usata Nonohara, Ox (illustrator)

December 26, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I’m pretty sure I’m only going to finish this series because the premise had potential at the beginning and several of the side characters were interesting. I’m kind of glad that the main storyline ends with the next installment which apparently just came out. I saw that novel may not be the end of the story, but I mostly don’t care anymore. So, in The Alchemist Who Survived Now Dreams of a Quiet City Life (part 4), we get a new character who I was […]

Maybe It’s the Timing

The Alchemist Who Survived Now Dreams of a Quiet City Life (Vol. 3) by Usata Nonhara, Ox (illustrator)

June 5, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I’m torn: I like the general premise and a lot of the potential in the various story threads, but I’m starting to get annoyed with some of the main characters and perspectives. The basic idea of The Alchemist Who Survived Now Dreams of a Quiet City Life (Vol. 3) is that Mariela, an alchemist puts herself in suspended animation to escape a monster attack and wakes up 200 years later alone in a changed world where her skills are highly valuable and rare. There’s an […]

Pausing to build up some tension

Drrrr!! vol. 9 (light novel) by Ryohgo Narita

May 24, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

There have been about 2 light novel series that have been adapted into other formats that I’ve liked all versions of roughly equally. Drrrr!! (ie Durarara!!) is one. I’ve just finished volume 9, and I think there’s only a few more to go to finished the story; this novel is also a good bit past where the anime and manga versions that I’ve gotten through are at. One of things about this particular story is that there are a lot of characters to keep track […]

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