The Sorcerer's Receptionist: Volume 4

魔法世界の受付嬢になりたいです [Mahou Sekai no Uketsukejou ni naritai desu] (Novel) #4

by Mako ., Maro (Illustrator), Adam (Translator)

It’s been eight months since the world lived through a peril unlike any other that came before. Nanalie continues to enjoy her freedom, working at Harré, hanging out with friends, and even seeing Rockmann on rare occasion. When she hears a rumor of a wax doll that can send people into the past or future, she doesn’t make much of it. Little does she know said doll is about to turn her whole life on its head, forcing her to reflect on questions she’s avoided like the plague...

A jealous former classmate travels into the past to take Rockmann for herself, leaving Nanalie and company no choice but to follow. How will they stop the homewrecker, and who’s truly behind the whole mess? Meanwhile, the director of Harré, Theodora Locktiss, has her own troubles to confront. A heavy loss in the distant past. A suffocating air that sometimes hangs in the guild. What transpired on that fateful day when the hands of her clock stopped moving?

Genres: Light Novel, Fantasy

230 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 12, 2023

About the author

Librarian note: there is more than one author using the same name.

▪ Mako (default profile)
▪ Mako . (まこ .) (novelist)
▪ Mago . (まご) (mangaka)
▪ ｍａｋｏ . (mangaka)
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Mako . (まこ .) list of works:
1. 2016 - 隅でいいです。構わないでくださいよ。 [Sumi de ii desu. Kamawanaide kudasai yo.]
2. 2018 - 魔法世界の受付嬢になりたいです [Mahou Sekai no Uketsukejou ni naritai desu]

Reviews

[Rebecca · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is fine, but, uh, I'm really not sure why I was so obsessed with the first three books in this series.

[Trinity · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am honestly not sure how to feel about this book. I enjoyed the first part but then it brings up something that is detailed in the spoiler section that doesn't get resolved. Even disregarding that, it felt like it ended rather abruptly.

Nanalie finds out that Rockmann, the man she supposedly loves, is in mortal danger but that *she* has the ability to help him and she doesn't go to him immediately? In fact she says she doesn't have plans to see him in the near future?? Maybe I just completely missed it (I was reading it pretty quickly) but the book ended with her NOT even trying to reach out to him to purge the demon??? They just meet by accident again and she's annoyed by it???? Nanalie is kinda the worst girlfriend. It was a small part of the book which could've been cut considering how little it affected the over all plot (which, in and of itself was a problem).

The above was enough to knock it from 4 to 3 stars. It's funny that this is my first review here but the spoiler annoyed me enough that I had to get it off my chest, lol!