October 5, 2023

It's about a girl who is the apprentice of a monk(?) in magical-China. It's small-scale fantasy, focused around one small town and temple. The author has a bibliography in the back that seems to be references for all the magic/religion stuff, so it looks and feels like a fair amount of effort went into the worldbuilding. Plotwise, it's a pretty straightfoward coming of age story. The characters are all well developed, and the prose is good.

So yeah - really solid book. It just didn't wow me. I would recommend it if the blurb grabs you though.

Difficultly-wise - I found it pretty rough, and almost entirely because of the vocabulary. There's a lot of magical-China vocab (that is different from all the other magical-China vocab I've acquired so far...), but also the author just knows a lot of words.

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similar in difficulty to薬屋のひとりごと 1L38
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harder than獣の奏者 1L32
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on October 5, 2023
similar in difficulty to月の影 影の海 (上) 十二国記 1L36
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on October 5, 2023
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on October 5, 2023
similar in difficulty to再就職先は宇宙海賊L35
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on October 5, 2023
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on October 5, 2023
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on October 5, 2023
similar in difficulty to月の影 影の海 (下) 十二国記 1L37
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on October 5, 2023
harder than竜の夏L34
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on October 5, 2023