Madougushi Dahliya wa Utsumukanai: Kyou kara Jiyuu na Shokunin Life
Dahlia in Bloom: Crafting a Fresh Start with Magical Tools

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I am basing this review off of the J-Novel translations for "Madougushi Dahlia wa Utsumukanai: Kyou kara Jiyuu na Shokunin Life."

Overall, the story is increasingly repetitive and attempts to explain various plot elements using various narratives. Such was the ultimate reason I dropped it a few pages into the third volume.

Elective plot elements that are only loosely related to the primary plot comprise a majority of each novel. Further, these elective plot elements lack variety and often focus on superficial details that have no direct importance to the main plot. The reader is therefore encouraged to skip paragraphs. For me, this encouragement built and ... built until I was skipping entire pages.

The book also suffers from a lack of consistent narrative, often jumping from third person limited to third person omniscient or third person limited to third-other-person limited within the same chapter. Sometimes these jumps in narrative serve to flesh out the motivations for characters other than the protagonist. Unfortunately, they frequently repeat themselves and distract the reader from the main plot, causing the story to feel drawn out and stretched thin.

4/10.

I am basing this review off of the J-Novel translations for "Madougushi Dahlia wa Utsumukanai: Kyou kara Jiyuu na Shokunin Life."

Overall, the story is increasingly repetitive and attempts to explain various plot elements using various narratives. Such was the ultimate reason I dropped it a few pages into the third volume.

Elective plot elements that are only loosely related to the primary plot comprise a majority of each novel. Further, these elective plot elements lack variety and often focus on superficial details that have no direct importance to the main plot. The reader is therefore encouraged to skip paragraphs. For me, this encouragement built and built until I was skipping entire pages.

The book also suffers from a lack of consistent narrative, often jumping from third person limited to third person omniscient or third person limited to third-other-person limited within the same chapter. Sometimes these jumps in narrative serve to flesh out the motivations for characters other than the protagonist. Unfortunately, they frequently repeat themselves and distract the reader from the main plot, causing the story to feel drawn out and stretched thin.

4/10