Free Life Fantasy Online: Immortal Princess (Light Novel) Vol. 3

Free Life Fantasy Online: Immortal Princess Light Novel #3

by Akisuzu Nenohi, Sherry (Illustrator)

Tsukishiro Kotone, a.k.a. Anastasia, a.k.a. the Immortal Princess, has learned the Secret Art of Necromancy. This will let her summon undead underlings who obey her every word—she'd love to take some skeleton servants on a hunting trip! And back in the real world, footage of her commanding the player army in defense against the goblin hoards is plastered all over TV in FLFO's official trailer and ads, making waves in Kotone's real life. Join the princess and her friends in a chill fantasy game world!

Genres: Light Novel, Fantasy

230 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 1, 2019

Reviews

[Pieter · Rating 3 out of 5]

Free Life Fantasy Online is very much a slice-of-life gaming story and while the game feels like an actual game* that does mean there is a certain lack of tension and in this volume no real plot. As the author mentions in the after word, there is a bit of a set up (and with it some world building), but not much to be honest. The characters are enjoyable, if shallow and besides the MC kind of blend into one faceless blob. Finally, the writing style is somewhat awkward, and I am not entirely sure it is the translation or the author. At a few spots hit points are called stamina, and a power that involves six attacks in a second is called "regenerate", neither of which makes sense in the context, and considering the author suggest they know games I suspect it is on the translator, but I don't know for sure.

So, in the end, I enjoyed the volume reasonably well, it did drag a bit and it left me a bit disappointed.

* There are a few things you will not find in a game, but the author mentioned these in an afterword as something they would like to be in one even if it is somewhat unrealistic from a game developer's perspective.

[Kumo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Slice of life, silly shinenegans

Not like my other reviews for these books, lol

TLDR: a light read that can be enjoyable if you like the sample chapters

I really enjoy this series, mostly for the take it easy approach MC has while somehow advancing the plot, which this book reveals a lot of compared to the previous ones.

Don't pick this up if you want something like huge powerscaling, frequent macguffins, well detailed training arcs, etc. This is mostly just take it at your own pace, plays a lot like mmorpg humor as well if you were to play with friends. It's a good light read that you shouldn't put too much thought into.

[Christine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another laid back installment of a cute zombie princess journey in a VRMMO. So many interesting additions to the world inside the game are being teased and I'm excited.