She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man, Vol. 5

Light Novel

De: Ryusen Hirotsugu

Narrado por: Peter Biles

ALL ABOARD!

To trace Soul Howl's trail to the Celestial Ruins, Mira must travel by transcontinental railroad. Although the three-story behemoth shocks her at first, she finds herself more and more excited to travel by train. During her journey, Mira watches the scenery speed by, enjoys station lunches, and relaxes in high-class hotels, meeting all sorts of people along the way. As Mira advertises for boutiques and mediates lovers' quarrels, a suspicious black-clad man creeps ever closer...

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We're going on a trip...

Do you like trains? Because riding one is all this book is about.

This is going to be incredibly harsh, but it does need to be made clear to incoming readers. I'm being serious when I say this: You can skip this book and move on to the next. You'll have missed absolutely nothing important.

No Actual Story

Um, did the author forget to include a plot? 90% of this is just Mira traveling in a Japan-like maner doing Japan-like things. At this rate, I will be dead before she tracks down the first Wise Man, let alone the the rest of them.

*EDIT*
Oh, wait, the author snuck in some plot development in the last hour. Have a star back, mate.

the series is alright, but this is a bit of a low point.

The series first off has an interesting enough premise but doesn't really take it with stride or anything. It rather meander around having more slice of life then story progression or adventure in each book. This is alright but means the books are not very exciting in the first place usually. This one however had two low points I want to address. so spoilers beyond.

First point I was dissatisfied with is that our main character seems to have a multitude of summons with many powers and often pulls one out depending on the need though they love using their knights most. When a blind character was introduced the story didn't really go over why the disease had taken her sight or the treatment. It left it very vague and made the characters a foot note though they were interesting. I was expecting Diva which is a spirit like a God to bards to maybe be able to heal her sight, or for our main character to try and see what exactly was the issue causing her loss of sight. Rather a beautiful song and another was all. I was thinking healing her sight would be a last minute gift before they departed from one another. It felt like a wasted chance that I believe could have been in her wheel house. a healing spirit or even Diva may have passed a way to address the blindness.

last issue is the cliff hangers. I just begun the next book. But that cliff hangers did not pay off. Maybe the writer will redeem themselves, but it was a promise not kept to the reader and it really brought my mood down to start the next book only to enter into a cliche scene I can expect out of any story like this, so I'm hoping to they steer back to something acceptable at the very least.

High points include meeting a samurai, some of the train passengers which as said I would like more time with each of them, and a cardshop as well as some further details on demons and devils along with finally 5 books in meeting another lost wise man only to hear I'll see you sometime this year or atleast I'll poke my head in lol.