Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 1 Volume 1 by Miya Kazuki

Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 1 Volume 1 (Ascendance of a Bookworm (light novel))

by Miya Kazuki

If there aren’t any books, I’ll just have to make some!
A certain college girl who's loved books ever since she was a little girl dies in an accident and is reborn in another world she knows nothing about. She is now Myne, the sickly five-year-old daughter of a poor soldier. To make things worse, the world she's been reborn in has a very low literacy rate and books mostly don't exist. She'd have to pay an enormous amount of money to buy one.Myne resolves herself: If there aren't any books, she'll just have to make them! Her goal is to become a librarian. This story begins with her quest to make books so she can live surrounded by them!Dive into this biblio-fantasy written for book lovers and bookworms!

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Summary:

All she has ever wanted to do is spend time with her books. She even made the mistake of joking about how she wanted to die under a pile of books. Unfortunately, that wish came true. Oops.

Now she’s in a new life, a new body. She goes by the name of Myne, and worst of all - there are no books in this new world! Or, more accurately, they are few and far between. So, to surround herself with her beloved treasure, Myne will learn how to make books from scratch.

Review:

As a major bookworm myself, I knew that I had to give Ascendance of a Bookworm a try. I mean, come on! That said, while I enjoyed Ascendance of a Bookworm Vol. 1, I didn’t end up enjoying it as much as I had hoped.

The good: it’s cute, it’s funny, and it’s got a solid isekai basis (no truck-kun, but still). The character herself is charming, and I could see myself really growing to love the secondary characters.

The less great: Myne is cute, and her obsession is cute, but it does feel a little one-trick pony-ish. Maybe I’m being unfair, after all, but that is the premise of the story. However, the original Myne seemed to have more characterization than the new one. I’m sure this will change and grow with time, though, so I’m not going to categorize it as bad. It just needs improvement.

Highlights:
Slice-of-Life
Book about a book
Comical

Will I continue the series? Maybe?

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