Ascendance of a Bookworm: Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 2 Volume 2

Miya Kazuki

Jan 2020 · Ascendance of a Bookworm Vol 5 · J-Novel Club

About this ebook

As Myne continues her busy life as an apprentice blue shrine maiden, some good news changes everything: Her mother is pregnant! Naturally, Myne immediately sets out to make a picture book for her future little sibling.

But there's still so much she doesn't know about the temple that doing anything is a struggle. She's forced into the education of a shrine maiden and has her hands full with her new attendants. She has a mountain of work as the orphanage director, too.

As always Myne has bitten off more than she can chew, but she charges forward with her love of books giving her strength. And as it becomes clear that someone with her level of mana will not continue to go unnoticed, the door to the world of nobles opens and the plot escalates dramatically!

Winter approaches, and a blizzard is about to fall upon this bibliofantasy!

Ratings and reviews

Honestly one of the best light novel i had read in a while. It is skillfully written and translated. Usually the second life in a less advance world setting gets boring fast, since the challenges are more or less the same and chars are rather one dimensional. With this novel, it is written in a way that Mayne new world expands slowly and once you get use to one layer, another opens up. Same with the characters. They are multi dimensional. And you will end up wanting to learn more about their pov.

Not the usual male character interested in being a skirt chasing moron. I wish Myne could have remembered more technical things about paper production and she could have made a fortune with a recipe for MAYONNAISE to fund her projects. People are more interested in her fantasy world with food.

This is pretty much where the Season 2 of the anime ends (if we're not to include the conversation Ferdinand had with Karstedt, the Leader of the Order of the Knights). I had not provided any text with my reviews from the past volumes since pretty much I already know what will happen, thus the emotion I should feel on a first read is not there. Is there a part which I wish was in the anime? Hmmm... Not that much, to be honest. Although, I did enjoy seeing the perspectives of the people around Myne emphasizing how weird she is in that world. And you'll get to understand their thought process, paricularly those who aren't often with Myne, such as the Merchant's Guild Guildmaster.