{"id":13291,"date":"2025-11-27T01:51:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T01:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=13291"},"modified":"2025-12-04T11:03:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T11:03:18","slug":"omniscient-readers-viewpoint-2-who-killed-the-hero-tale-of-the-prophecy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/omniscient-readers-viewpoint-2-who-killed-the-hero-tale-of-the-prophecy\/","title":{"rendered":"Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint #2 & Who Killed the Hero?: Tale of the Prophecy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The second Jeonjijeok Dokja Sijeom novel<\/a> is a notable step down from the prequel<\/a>. The pacing is far, far<\/em> too frantic, the plot developments are pretty random, and the character actions are simplistic. I see no reason to go any further.<\/p>\n

I had been wondering how there could possibly be a continuation of Dare ga Yuusha o Koroshita ka<\/a> considering the way it ended, and the second novel<\/a> being mostly a prequel turned out to be the answer. Focused on someone with a tangential relationship to the hero, this story hits many of the same beats while giving a bit of a wider view of what was happening in the world before the demon king fell. And while not quite as good as that first novel, it works well as a supplement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The second Jeonjijeok Dokja Sijeom novel is a notable step down from the prequel. The pacing is far, far too frantic, the plot developments are pretty random, and the character actions are simplistic. I see no reason to go any further. I had been wondering how there could possibly be a continuation of Dare ga Yuusha o Koroshita ka considering the way it ended, and the second novel being mostly a prequel turned out to be the answer. Focused on someone with a tangential relationship to the hero, this story hits many of the same beats while giving a bit of a wider view of what was happening in the world before the demon king fell. And while not quite as good as that first novel, it works well as a supplement.<\/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":[1021,1117,28,1150,1149,30,510],"class_list":["post-13291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-related","tag-daken","tag-dare-ga-yuusha-o-koroshita-ka","tag-fantasy","tag-jeonjijeok-dokja-sijeom","tag-singnsong","tag-urban-fantasy","tag-young-adult-novel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13291","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=13291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}