{"id":10106,"date":"2022-12-30T10:49:35","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T10:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=10106"},"modified":"2023-01-02T16:03:26","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T16:03:26","slug":"the-alchemist-who-survived-1-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/the-alchemist-who-survived-1-5\/","title":{"rendered":"The Alchemist Who Survived #1-5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0828LW36K\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ikinokori Renkinjutsushi wa Machi de Shizuka ni Kurashitai<\/a> (English subtitle: <em>Now Dreams of a Quiet City Life<\/em>) is actually a six-book series, the main storyline is concluded in the fifth. As far as I can tell the sixth, which I&#8217;ve decided to skip, is sort of like a DLC bonus story.<\/p>\n<p>Part &#8216;crafting&#8217; slice of life and part &#8216;cute girl being cute&#8217;, it nevertheless manages to continually advance its central plotline while also tossing in small bits of romantic yearnings. I&#8217;ve also got to give the author credit for not giving in to the temptation of including cooking segments, thereby keeping potion and medicine-making at the forefront.<\/p>\n<p>As far as complaints, my main one would have to be how long-winded and\/or repetitious the descriptive text often is. More minor issues would be the penchant for ominously foreshadowing ultimately innocuous events along with there being some editing issues in the fifth novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Ikinokori Renkinjutsushi wa Machi de Shizuka ni Kurashitai (English subtitle: Now Dreams of a Quiet City Life) is actually a six-book series, the main storyline is concluded in the fifth. As far as I can tell the sixth, which I&#8217;ve decided to skip, is sort of like a DLC bonus story. Part &#8216;crafting&#8217; slice of life and part &#8216;cute girl being cute&#8217;, it nevertheless manages to continually advance its central plotline while also tossing in small bits of romantic yearnings. I&#8217;ve also got to give the author credit for not giving in to the temptation of including cooking segments, thereby keeping potion and medicine-making at the forefront. As far as complaints, my main one would have to be how long-winded and\/or repetitious the descriptive text often is. More minor issues would be the penchant for ominously foreshadowing ultimately innocuous events along with there being some editing issues in the fifth novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[28,612,64,613,510],"class_list":["post-10106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-related","tag-fantasy","tag-ikinokori-renkinjutsushi-wa-machi","tag-romance","tag-usata-nonohara","tag-young-adult-novel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}