Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?! (Light Novel) Vol. 5

私、能力は平均値でって言ったよね！ (Novel) #5

by Ｆｕｎａ, Itsuki Akata (Illustrator)

REUNIONS AND RIVALRIES!

Mile left Marcela, Aureana and Monika behind when she fled Eckland Academy, but when a job takes the Crimson Vow back into the Kingdom of Brandel, she can’t pass up the chance to see her old friends. But the Wonder Trio aren’t ready to let Mile go again now that they have her back! it’s tug of war time, and Mile’s in the middle! Will she be forced to choose one set of friends over the other?

Genres: Light Novel, Fantasy, Comedy, Slice Of Life, Magic, Action

322 pages, Paperback

First published January 15, 2017

Reviews

[Niall Teasdale]

Filler.

It makes sense if you consider that light novels are generally serialised on the web before they get published. If you're writing a series of books which are essentially self-contained in themselves, you make sure there's something interesting in each volume. If you're writing a series of stories which will later be broken into books, you don't think the same way.

So, this volume is a filler episode which really doesn't advance anything and just keeps things ticking over until the next volume which is likely to have more substantive content. In fact, I'm sure it will, because the other sin this volume commits is to end on a cliffhanger.

Unfortunately, this is a book you need to get through to move on with the next one. It wasn't bad, it was amusing in more than a few places, but even where it advances side plots, it doesn't do it in a particularly entertaining way. It was okay. Hopefully it'll lead to something more interesting in volume 6.

[kurogane shiroikaze]

A rather big letdown after the climax from the previous volume. Main story felt quite scattershot, as the girls go around travelling and saving random people and resolving local issues, which isn't too far apart from the earlier volumes but it's definitely not what I want.

The only good highlight of this volume is the heroine's reunion with her past friends and it feels like they are a much better set of sidekicks for her, so it's disappointing to see them left behind again.

[poet]

It's such a fun series. This was mostly just little side stories. Nothing significant really happened. But they were all fun, so that's fine.

[Tory]

I waited for this volume for so long and am so disappointed, The story makes no real progress until the last few pages then ends abruptly on a cliff hanger and proceeds to a side story chapter, This volume also has various side stories mixed in at different parts that honestly no one cares about as they contribute nothing to the story to the point of barely even being able to be called filler and are just fluff to take up pages. I really like this story and want to read what happens as it advances but with the wait between issues and then issues that don't advance the story at all it makes me hesitant to continue. I will however give the series a little longer to pick up but you could probably skip this volume entirely and miss very little.

[Dani]

This series started out well. The premise is entertaining, and the initial volumes were charming. However, the author has written herself into a corner by allowing the characters' abilities to inflate. As of v.4, the protagonist can defeat elder dragons, and has magical super-user privileges, so there are no real challenges left except social ones. In v.5, the series makes the transition to situation comedy, which does not take advantage of the strengths of the series.

[Roxanne Nelson]

This volume felt like a collection of short stories, as the Crimson Bow takes the road so they can grow. Sadly they were not very well executed, as I don't think it was intended this way. The meeting of Mile and the Wonder Trio, that I was hoping for, kinda fell flat due to this wierd pacing. Even Mile was exasperated at the resolution of one of these stories. The ending was a cliffhanger, so I'm hoping for better in the next volume.

[Sebastian Barriga Grez]

Sadly boring

My expectations were totally destroyed by this fourth book. It was messy and hard to follow the story. Hope it will get better in the next.

[Victor]

Still loving the story

I am still interested in this story, Mile/Adele makes me laugh every time she says something outrageous as if it was the most natural thing in the world

[Chris]

Another gut-buster, but I am starting to notice it meandering aimlessly now. I still enjoy it though and would still recommend it.

[Hisham El-far]

I'm still in.

[Konrad]

Too much padding in this one.

Too much padding wita boring "bonus stories" in this volume and not enough of the main plotline. I for one found this annoying.

[Greg]

The worst one of the series so far. Our lovely protagonists set out for high adventure! And don't find it.

[Michie]

Happy with the reunion between Mile and her old friends!

One downside of the series is that the info dumping can get unbearable at times. I find myself skipping over those parts.

[Hex]

Nothing happens.

[Fat Frog]

Nothing happens.

[Ciera]

Not the best book in the series or the worst but I like that it explores some new storylines with the same funny and cute way of writing. It was starting to get repetitive, so this book in the series is a change. Some of it’s still a little weird but I think that’s just a different culture or intended audience in some parts (some parts not all) than me personally as a reader likes or expected. 3 stars!!!

[Miracle152004]

Be careful what you wish for in this magical comedy about the pitfalls of rebirth!

When she turns ten years old, Adele von Ascham is hit with a horrible headache--and memories of her previous life as an eighteen-year-old Japanese girl named Kurihara Misato. That life changed abruptly, however, when Misato died trying to aid a little girl and met god. During that meeting, she made an odd request and asked for average abilities in her next life. But few things--especially wishes--ever go quite as planned.

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