Re: What to read while waiting for the next P.S. Power book
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2016 5:14 pm
Gotta say. LOVING the Wizard Born ones. Saw their post this morning and on the third one now.
So I read "The Girl Who Bore the Flame Ring". I don't have a clue what's with the flame ring (the sun?) but as expected, the writing was rather bad, but the plot was pretty good. Like the author's first web novel, the heroine is some random girl who just wants some small thing (the first one wanted to be, well, not hungry, and this one wants to be happy), but starts out in an abysmal situation. Then, circumstances force both into joining forces with a military that is not necessarily "the good guys". However, their opponents aren't exactly "the bad guys" either - both sides are basically human, with some good goals, and some flaws. Also, both heroines are mostly cute girls, spouting random stuff (this one always goes on about the weather) but underneath are insane psychopaths (the shinigame eg. executes a bunch of her allies for a strategy, while this one sets a bunch of her allies on fire for a trick (they volunteered, admittedly). Well, all is fair in war ... ^^). Nonetheless, this one I think was clearly the less depressing one. It even has a relatively positive end.
Also read one of those reincarnation things. "I Said Make My Abilities Average!" The idea is basically, that the genre-aware protagonist doesn't want to be super-overpowered, as it usually happens, but just be an ordinary girl. Unfortunately, the God responsible for her reincarnation is kinda wonky on the whole "average human" thing, and uses pretty arbitrary and/or literal standards as to what he considers average (like, her strength isn't the arithmetic average of humans, but the median average of every creature in existence. Since that includes dragons and whatnot she ends up being super-though, obviously...). Anyway, she tries not sticking out nonetheless, but she's this typical shounen-like dense protagonist who has no clue just how obvious it is that she is completely abnormal. No matter how often she insists that she is "just a normal girl". It's nothing particularly awesome, but quite funny at times.