A review by thinde
Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 1 Volume 1, by Miya Kazuki
3.0
I'm a fan of reincarnation stories so it was with qualified optimism that I started this series with its cartoon covers. While I don't regret reading it, I feel a mid-grade audience is where it is aimed.
The protagonist sometimes acts like a sheltered adult and at other times has the maturity of a five-year-old. For example, would it kill her to talk to her parents... "Hey Mom, please don't take things out of my room to burn." It just comes off as the author forcing the plot.
The setting seems unrealistic. In my experience the less someone owns, the better they take care of their possessions, not the other way around. In fact, there seems to be some prejudice toward the lower class at work here. Are we to believe that a poor family has never heard of making soup stock from animal bones. Once again, poorer families are more likely to know tricks like that, not less.
The pacing is remarkably slow. However, there's a pleasant tone to the writing and characters that make reading it more than acceptable.
The protagonist sometimes acts like a sheltered adult and at other times has the maturity of a five-year-old. For example, would it kill her to talk to her parents... "Hey Mom, please don't take things out of my room to burn." It just comes off as the author forcing the plot.
The setting seems unrealistic. In my experience the less someone owns, the better they take care of their possessions, not the other way around. In fact, there seems to be some prejudice toward the lower class at work here. Are we to believe that a poor family has never heard of making soup stock from animal bones. Once again, poorer families are more likely to know tricks like that, not less.
The pacing is remarkably slow. However, there's a pleasant tone to the writing and characters that make reading it more than acceptable.