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(4.44/5)This book has everything you could wish for as a language learner. The story is always very enjoyable and interesting, but keeping a familiar setup for every chapter. Indeed, while every chapter is focused around one character/snack, some elements always come back, particularly in description of the snack shop. So, if you're not very used to reading descriptions this is a great entry into that, as you will keep seeing similar descriptions.
That doesn't mean that this book is boring however, as
A mysterious shop appears to a new character every chapter, and they obtain an unusual snack from the enigmatic shopkeeper. As you might expect, surprising things occur to those who eat these magical treats...
There is a formula to the stories - a customer buys or steals! a product from the shop which has an interesting name, and eating it causes surprising things to happen - but the plots and characters are so different that it doesn't feel repetitive.
I found the grammar
A fun short story collection about a magic snack shop.
This book contains a prolog, epilog, and five short stories about people who visit a magic snack shop. The shop sells them a treat which can give them whatever they want, but there's always a catch. Depending on whether or not they read the warning (no one ever does!) and on how brave / clever / diligent / etc a person is, they might benefit or end up in a bad state.
This book is very fun and each of the stories contains some repeated content, which is great for learners. The protagonist will a
Quick, Engaging Read
This was a quick read! I was unsure if it was for me after the first story, but there was a nice amount of variety in terms of the plot of each story and the characters involved. I particularly liked the ghost story and the tree story. I plan to read the next one at some point since they're available at my local library.
From a Korean perspective, I read the physical version along with the audiobook, which made things a bit smoother since I could guess some words from context
I listened to the audiobook for this. I could follow it without thinking pretty much, as it’s about 5 levels below my ‘ideal’ reading level on LN. There are a lot of fun descriptive words and onomatopoeia, which I usually just get the ‘vibe’ of from the sentence. The voice acting also helps with that for me. For the audio, I found the voices fun and not too over the top. There’s some extra background sounds added which are fine (e.g. crunching noises when someone eats, footsteps noises, etc).
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