{"id":10405,"date":"2023-03-22T14:24:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T14:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=10405"},"modified":"2025-12-01T23:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T23:01:07","slug":"solo-leveling-7-banished-from-the-heros-party-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/solo-leveling-7-banished-from-the-heros-party-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Solo Leveling #7 &#038; Banished from the HERO\u2019s PARTY #8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a great deal going on in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0B9MHFG88\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the seventh<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/tag\/solo-leveling\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Na Honjaman Level-Up<\/a> novel.<\/p>\n<p>We get the (apparently) full backstory on the war between the Rulers and Monarchs, why it&#8217;s happening on Earth, why the Shadow Monarch&#8217;s position has been so ambiguous, and why Jinwoo was chosen. The conclusion of his father&#8217;s arc is also included along with a small bit of romantic development. Most notable however is that this book features the dissolution of the titular leveling system&#8230; an ambitious thing to do considering there&#8217;s still five left to go.<\/p>\n<p>As for <em>Shin no Nakama<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0BFQ8Q8SZ\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">eighth entry<\/a>, it&#8217;s basically reinforced all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/though-i-am-an-inept-villainess-tale-of-the-butterfly-rat-body-swap-in-the-maiden-court-1-2-banished-from-the-heros-party-7\/\" title=\"Though I Am an Inept Villainess: Tale of the Butterfly-Rat Body Swap in the Maiden Court #1-2 &#038; Banished from the Hero\u2019s Party #7\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">my earlier misgivings<\/a> about the series. There&#8217;s just something particularly unnatural about the event development that makes it a bit of a chore to read. So yeah, I&#8217;ll be dropping the series here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a great deal going on in the seventh Na Honjaman Level-Up novel. We get the (apparently) full backstory on the war between the Rulers and Monarchs, why it&#8217;s happening on Earth, why the Shadow Monarch&#8217;s position has been so ambiguous, and why Jinwoo was chosen. The conclusion of his father&#8217;s arc is also included along with a small bit of romantic development. Most notable however is that this book features the dissolution of the titular leveling system&#8230; an ambitious thing to do considering there&#8217;s still five left to go. As for Shin no Nakama&#8216;s eighth entry, it&#8217;s basically reinforced all my earlier misgivings about the series. There&#8217;s just something particularly unnatural about the event development that makes it a bit of a chore to read. So yeah, I&#8217;ll be dropping the series here.<\/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":[545,28,544,64,533,30,510,532],"class_list":["post-10405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-related","tag-chugong","tag-fantasy","tag-na-honjaman-level-up","tag-romance","tag-shin-no-nakama","tag-urban-fantasy","tag-young-adult-novel","tag-zappon"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10405","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=10405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}