The Demon Sword Master of Excalibur Academy. Sensing that his end is near, the Undead King, one of the Dark Lords trying to take over the world, uses a reincarnation spell to return 1,000 years later. He awakens to a world at war with mysterious creatures called The Void.

I read volume 1 and I’m halfway through volume 2. I’m not sold on this one. The main sticking point for me is that the protagonist has been reborn as a 10 year old human boy (instead of his previous immortal Undead King self) and has his human emotions reawakened. So one minute he’s reflecting on how he single-handedly destroyed armies mercilessly in his past life, the next he’s getting bashful because a girl got too close.

It also seems like they’re building him up to be a faux villain who was just misunderstood or whatever in his past life. He wants to rule (both in his past and present life), but his goals beyond that are kinda vague. I guess I’ll stick with it a bit longer and see how it goes.

~Paladin’s Grace, by T Kingfisher

I’m not sure exactly how I feel about it. I’m about 80% through with it and I feel like my wife pulled a fast-one on me by recommending it. It has interesting characters and the author is fairly insightful and humorous, but so far it seems like a really soft-core romance novel leading up to a big sex scene and a ‘happily ever after’.

I’ll report back when finished in a few hours.~

Scratch that, just read the sidebar and realized this was for novels translated from Japan. My mistake. :(

Due to the release of a certain ARPG, I didn’t read much this week. The only LN I’ve read was Enough with This Slow Life! I Was Reincarnated as a High Elf and Now I’m Bored: Volume 2. This series has an interesting quirk that I haven’t seen anywhere else yet. The story is written from a macro point of view. Entire decades are flying by in single chapters. As an example:

4/10 timeless elves, plus a bonus point for the uniqueness.