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Written on Dec 30, 2018
I read one of the novels a while back and enjoyed it so why not read another one as my last read of 2018 and what is ironically my 70th book?
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I’ve been reading the manga since 2014 and after learning about the novels, wanted to check them out as well. Unlike the “Seven Scars Left Behind” Novel, this novel has 3 stories where 2 of them talk about things we’ve already seen in the manga in some snippets, or at least heard about in some way, 1 of them was concerning a character we don’t see much about in the background or history area, but still know the line of work of. The interesting thing about this novel to me was that it showcased some different creatures we haven’t seen before, maybe introduced some realms and mentioned one thing about one of the main characters that I feel somewhat dumb for not taking it into granted lol.
Of course, I do wish for new stuff whenever I read these novels or any accompanying novels for the matter. When these chances present themselves, it’s a damn shame if authors don’t take the chance to expand on their worlds. Ultimately, this Nakaba-sensei’s world, but I know for sure that this particular series doesn’t just through things around so that’s my solace for now. I do enjoy Matsuda-sensei’s writing style a lot so I wouldn’t be against reading more work of hers if it’s connected to this series (anything but Seven Days btw) and maybe other series as well.
Given that it’s only three short stories, I’ll be talking about each in a smaller section before wrapping up the last novel of the year of 2018 and my last collection of thoughts about them:
Story of Gowther: before all the reveals in the manga, Gowther has always been one of the more interesting characters for me. This story expands on his time in the village of Ordan, before he rejoins the sins. Ultimately the story doesn’t add anything new to the narrative, but I did enjoy that it showed a new creature, made me think of possible new things concerning Nakaba-sensei’s world building and revealed something interesting about our Sin of Lust.
Story of Slader: this story is easily the one I enjoyed the most because it’s all new, the Dawn Roar have been around for a while in the series, but something that shows more about them didn’t come until now. This story reveals some information about Queen Caroline, her demise, some extra magic items that exist in this series and more importantly, shows how the Dawn Roar operate under King Baltra’s orders. I did hope to know about what happened to the survivors in bigger details, especially our little friend, but overall, definitely the best of the bunch for me.
Story of King: like Gowther’s story, this one isn’t something new at all. We’ve seen this story in different moments in the manga series already, and this story here only adds an extra snippet into the time King spent away from the Fairy King’s Forest. Ultimately, I wished for something more interesting concerning King given who he is, but I guess it’s not that bad in the end. Maybe redundant, but still nothing on B and E’s redundancy levels so yeah :)
I do wish for more of these once again, but until then I guess it’s an interesting way to end 2018.
Final rating: 3/5