忘れえぬ魔女の物語 1

忘れえぬ魔女の物語 has a really interesting premise: The main character Ayaka experiences multiple "versions" of each day, but then only one is selected to become the "real" version of that day. She remembers everything that happened in all versions, but everyone else only remembers the selected version. Unfortunately, the book did not deliver a quality story based on that premise.

While the first 2/3 of the book had interesting parts, it was a bit slow and repetitive. It did dive into the good and bad aspects of Ayaka's ability (if you can call it that), but I feel like it left too much unexplored. If the entire book had been like this, I would have given it 3/5 stars.

However, at about the 2/3 mark, the book jarringly changes tone. It takes an interesting premise and ruins it by using a common method of causing conflict in these types of stories (major spoiler: using a time loop to save someone seemingly "destined" to die) with poor execution. To be clear, this method of conflict can and does work well when used right (Steins;Gate [popular anime] is a great example), but in this case it went way overboard and relied on several deus ex machinas to get to the author's desired ending. For this reason I had to drop my score to 2/5.