So now that everything’s back to normal lets go back to last weeks discussion. But first let me thank everyone who ran with the silly April Fools joke. I expected to get - at best - a chuckle out of one or two people but seeing so many start to post their own “light Novels” really made me grin like a Cheshire Cat the entire day. Made me happy for the move to this instance all over again! So, thanks everyone!

And now onwards to the LN discussion (there was a little sneak peak already):

The Ephemeral Scenes of Setsuna’s Journey, Vol. 3 - The plot this time is the most convoluted and contrived one I’ve seen in a long time. There are more holes in it than in a sieve. I wonder what the author was thinking when coming up with it. Makes no sense whatsoever. - 4/10

The Unimplemented Overlords Have Joined the Party!, Vol. 1 - The story feels very unfinished. Most of the time I felt like reading a rough draft more than a published and translated work. For example, the basic premise is akin to SAO - players get trapped in a VRMMO and deaths are real. But all the players have to go on that deaths are real is a single system message about it. The system message doesn’t even say that deaths are fatal in the real world (it only says deaths are final without specifying whether that is character death or player death) but every player completely despairs and loses hope. There is no one questioning the specific wording or whether or not the system message is even real. 350.000 people just accept something so fundamental as their new reality and run with it. The story could have used at least a couple of paragraphs of players at least questioning this to make it remotely believable. And this is just the basic premise. Everything else is just as rough-draft-ish from characters to story beats. - 3/10

The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects: Volume 2 - The story is growing on me. And it’s not just because they introduce a little book loving mouse character this volume. There was also a rather interesting bit of world building that I haven’t come across before explaining why elves love the woods so much. Apart form that, the plot itself is very simplistic, but not everything has to be complex and thought provoking. Sometimes simple is good enough and this is one of those cases. -7/10

So I’m a spider so what? - Vol 08 to Vol 10 + Skimmed Vol 11

I have carried on in my spider journey.

I skimmed most of Vol 11 only reading the interims and a few bits from the other chapters because I have read the series before and I am not too interested in Julius’s back story.