“One thing I enjoy about light novels would be how different the storytelling and settings are from English-written books. That's why when I read The Rising Of The Shield Hero I couldn't help but enjoy its different perspective on a more villainous protagonist. While the story isn't anything you haven't heard of when it comes to anime and light novel tropes, the characters are what push along the story and each character motivation progresses the story in ways you wouldn't see coming.”
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http://englishlightnovels.com/2015/09/13/guest-review-rising-of-the-shield-hero-vol-1/
Conclusion wise, after three volumes I'm really happy with the series. It's got it's flaws, but it still manages to draw me in and make me feel i'm living the story. Which for me is a huge thing, if a series gets me to suspend disbelief and reality and get sucked into it's story, it's a series worth reading!
Frankly that reason alone makes it worthy of being on my Series of the Month list!
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http://www.ryusheng.com/2015/09/02/series-of-the-month-aquarion-evol-vols01-03/
The first volume of The Rising of the Shield Hero will be released by One Peace Books on September 15th, but would you like to get your hands on the light novel sooner? Now is your chance! The winner of this contest will receive a free review copy of the book. The contest will take the form of a drawing (chosen by random number generator), and to enter you need only agree to review the book once you finish reading it. Your review will then be posted here at englishlightnovels.com! How cool is that?
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http://englishlightnovels.com/2015/08/12/contest-win-a-copy-of-rising-of-the-shield-hero/
In this final omnibus of Whispered Words, both Sumika and Ushio have come to terms with their feelings for the other, but Sumika realizes that there's also other aspects to life besides love, and that staying together forever is not necessarily something easy to achieve. The rest of the cast watches the two of them struggle as they march towards graduation. And their own struggles and successes are also seen throughout, as we watch Mayu's burgeoning crush and social ineptness come together in a horrible way, Akemiya being clueless about his love life but finding that he enjoys his newfound career, and Kyori being blissfully ignorant of everything.
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http://suitablefortreatment.mangabookshelf.com/2015/01/20/whispered-words-vol-3/
I recommend this book both to adult readers and young adults. Apart from giving a window into a different culture, it also gives words to emotions we all feel though we may no longer traverse the hallowed halls of high school. Hatsu is a remarkable protagonist and the book is less a story that neatly ties up its endings and more a tale that will leave you musing long after the last page has been turned.
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https://thebookwars.wordpress.com/2015/06/23/snapshots-i-want-to-kick-you-in-the-back-by-risa-wataya/
At first glance, author Matthue Roth and illustrator Rohan Daniel Eason's The Gobblings is as different from their first picture book, My First Kafka, as can be. While My First Kafka reached into the past to retell three Kafka tales, The Gobblings launches the reader into a distant future full of aliens, space machinery, and that perennial, universal picture-book fixture, loneliness. But very much like My First Kafka, The Gobblings is inspired in part by a Jewish master storyteller, the Baal Shem Tov.
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http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/the-gobblings
“The writing remains as lively and interesting as it was back in its time, capturing a sense of adventure and nautical experiences from an author who died at sea of malaria at the age of 48.”
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http://donovansliteraryservices.com/june-2015-ipp.html
While creator Shoujo Kawamori's Aquarion Evol manga continues to exhibit its quirky defining characteristics, it's with pleasure that I report that the manga's second volume improves upon all of the weaknesses of the first book. Uneven pacing and tone, opaque narrative, and obscured battle choreography all plagued the introductory volume of the manga. All of those attributes are addressed and improved in the second book.
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http://www.animenation.net/blog/2015/06/03/aquarion-evol-volume-2-excels/
“This manga opens with Amata Sora, a boy with air elemental powers meeting Mikono Suzushiro, a girl whose previous response to growing up in a world filled with robot battles, elemental powers, and random kidnappings was to become a shut-in.”
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http://mangabookshelf.com/48589/bookshelf-briefs-52615/
Explorations of the teenage mind are not in short supply these days but as a winner of Japan's prestigious Akutagawa Prize for rising literary talent, Risa Wataya's I Want to Kick You in the Back is an uncommonly sublime and textured look at the unclear feelings of a lonely teenager.
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http://anitay.kinja.com/i-want-to-kick-you-in-the-back-a-review-1704980476
