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The Hero Laughs While Walking the Path of Vengeance a Second Time (light novel) #3
The Hero Laughs While Walking the Path of Vengeance a Second Time, Vol. 3 (light novel): The Spellcaster of Deceased Dreams (Volume 3)
WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND
As Kaito plots his revenge against Eumis, he discovers that the spellcaster has bolstered her powers by selling her sister Shuria’s soul to a demon. Not one to let an opportunity to humiliate his foes go to waste, Kaito saves the girl from the brink of death and invites her to join him and Minnalis on their quest for vengeance. Now the stage is set for the three partners in crime to corner their common enemy and strip her of everything she holds dear in a spectacular act of retribution…
As Kaito plots his revenge against Eumis, he discovers that the spellcaster has bolstered her powers by selling her sister Shuria’s soul to a demon. Not one to let an opportunity to humiliate his foes go to waste, Kaito saves the girl from the brink of death and invites her to join him and Minnalis on their quest for vengeance. Now the stage is set for the three partners in crime to corner their common enemy and strip her of everything she holds dear in a spectacular act of retribution…
- GenresLight NovelFantasy
244 pages, Paperback
Published August 30, 2022
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April 9, 2024
Shuria aches for revenge, but as often occurs in this novel series, bloody justice at the hands of Kaito and his crew is neither swift nor random. It's all in the execution of the execution, one might say.
THE HERO LAUGHS WHILE WALKING THE PATH OF VENGEANCE A SECOND TIME v3 exposes readers to the deeper, more emotional risks and expenditures that fuel Kaito's existential quest for manslaughter. At this juncture, the novel series' clever application of shared memories and abridged emotional burdens adroitly foreswears that every kill Kaito successfully earns will be as equally nourishing as it will be unsatisfying. The good news is the young man is practically unstoppable at this point. The bad news is that he's practically unstoppable at this point.
The deeper Kaito sinks into the pit of vengeance, the more people he drags down with him. Often, it appears, though not for certain, unintentionally.
Shuria, the part-elven half-sister of a depraved spellcaster (Eumis Elmia), is one such willing victim. Betrayed by her noble family, by Eumis, by her attendants, and everyone else she thought trustworthy, the girl finds ersatz kindness in Kaito's hollow eyes. And so, when it comes time to put Eumis in her place, Shuria is more than ready. THE HERO LAUGHS v3 continues to surprise insofar as creative torture scenes and heart-wrenching death gambits are concerned. Brilliantly, Shuria's dark transformation burns hot and bright. Kaito is intelligent. Minnalis is impertinent. And Shuria is a sadist. What a team.
The book's integration of Shuria into the band of vengeance seekers is awkward and amusing, since Minnalis's understated personality finds an odd partner in Shuria's strict submissiveness. The duo's true potential comes out on the battlefield, when Minnalis and her potion-making finds a willing teammate in Shuria and her dark puppetry (Shuria: "Oh dear, does it hurt already? I'm afraid there's still a lot more to come if you're to feel the pain of those you murdered," page 56).
THE HERO LAUGHS v3 isn't a smooth read, but it gets the job done. This book inherited some of the previous volume's structural problems, but it's delivery on the climax helped pay off some of those frustrations. To be frank, the novel's conclusion wraps up by page 95. And the title's subsequent, 72-page flashback is an agonizing detour. As much as one wants to learn about Kaito's relationship with the forty-seventh demon lord, Leticia Lu Harleston, one could do without the author dedicating one-third of the whole book to a cheesy dungeon crawl to do so.
The information glut from the previous volume bled over and into the current book. The final result of which gives readers a corrosive mixing and matching of backstory content, filler content, and side-story content of varying quality. Between the second and third volumes, together, a decent editor may find one really good book.
For example, in the current volume, readers encounter a mysterious cleric (Metelia Laurelia), who for reasons unexplained, was also reborn into this world with memories of Kaito's previous heroic adventures. Priestess Metelia possesses a singular affection for the young man and pledges to snag him for herself this time around. Definitely an interesting wrinkle. Except, the author doesn't explain how or why Metelia knows what she knows, or why she seeks Kaito so vehemently. One could read between the lines of a passage or two and contrive a felo-de-se of sorts, but until further notice, the young woman's situation is entirely random and entirely unclear.
And so, readers conclude THE HERO LAUGHS v3 the same way they finished the previous volume: more exquisite action, more onerous and irrelevant side stories, a few clever additions to the secondary cast, and the anemic promise of something substantive on the horizon. A pattern seems to be emerging.
THE HERO LAUGHS WHILE WALKING THE PATH OF VENGEANCE A SECOND TIME v3 exposes readers to the deeper, more emotional risks and expenditures that fuel Kaito's existential quest for manslaughter. At this juncture, the novel series' clever application of shared memories and abridged emotional burdens adroitly foreswears that every kill Kaito successfully earns will be as equally nourishing as it will be unsatisfying. The good news is the young man is practically unstoppable at this point. The bad news is that he's practically unstoppable at this point.
The deeper Kaito sinks into the pit of vengeance, the more people he drags down with him. Often, it appears, though not for certain, unintentionally.
Shuria, the part-elven half-sister of a depraved spellcaster (Eumis Elmia), is one such willing victim. Betrayed by her noble family, by Eumis, by her attendants, and everyone else she thought trustworthy, the girl finds ersatz kindness in Kaito's hollow eyes. And so, when it comes time to put Eumis in her place, Shuria is more than ready. THE HERO LAUGHS v3 continues to surprise insofar as creative torture scenes and heart-wrenching death gambits are concerned. Brilliantly, Shuria's dark transformation burns hot and bright. Kaito is intelligent. Minnalis is impertinent. And Shuria is a sadist. What a team.
The book's integration of Shuria into the band of vengeance seekers is awkward and amusing, since Minnalis's understated personality finds an odd partner in Shuria's strict submissiveness. The duo's true potential comes out on the battlefield, when Minnalis and her potion-making finds a willing teammate in Shuria and her dark puppetry (Shuria: "Oh dear, does it hurt already? I'm afraid there's still a lot more to come if you're to feel the pain of those you murdered," page 56).
THE HERO LAUGHS v3 isn't a smooth read, but it gets the job done. This book inherited some of the previous volume's structural problems, but it's delivery on the climax helped pay off some of those frustrations. To be frank, the novel's conclusion wraps up by page 95. And the title's subsequent, 72-page flashback is an agonizing detour. As much as one wants to learn about Kaito's relationship with the forty-seventh demon lord, Leticia Lu Harleston, one could do without the author dedicating one-third of the whole book to a cheesy dungeon crawl to do so.
The information glut from the previous volume bled over and into the current book. The final result of which gives readers a corrosive mixing and matching of backstory content, filler content, and side-story content of varying quality. Between the second and third volumes, together, a decent editor may find one really good book.
For example, in the current volume, readers encounter a mysterious cleric (Metelia Laurelia), who for reasons unexplained, was also reborn into this world with memories of Kaito's previous heroic adventures. Priestess Metelia possesses a singular affection for the young man and pledges to snag him for herself this time around. Definitely an interesting wrinkle. Except, the author doesn't explain how or why Metelia knows what she knows, or why she seeks Kaito so vehemently. One could read between the lines of a passage or two and contrive a felo-de-se of sorts, but until further notice, the young woman's situation is entirely random and entirely unclear.
And so, readers conclude THE HERO LAUGHS v3 the same way they finished the previous volume: more exquisite action, more onerous and irrelevant side stories, a few clever additions to the secondary cast, and the anemic promise of something substantive on the horizon. A pattern seems to be emerging.
October 25, 2022
Gruesome but good
This one's was very gruesome, in some ways more so then the others. But it still explained why they did what they did and in a very good story telling kind of way.
This one's was very gruesome, in some ways more so then the others. But it still explained why they did what they did and in a very good story telling kind of way.
December 27, 2022
Kaito and company get some more of that revenge. Half of the volume is side stories of flashbacks and future setups. Flashback story could have been from a different light novel and I thought it was best part of this book. Kind of looking forward to next one.
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