The Otome Heroine's Fight for Survival: Volume 4

The Otome Heroine's Fight for Survival Light Novel #4

by Harunohi Biyori, Camilla L. (translator), Hitaki Yuu (illustrator)

After bonding with a mythical coeurl and failing to kill Graves, Alia gets recruited by her old mentor Viro to join his party, the famed Rainbow Blade. Alia heads to the royal capital to take care of the necessary proceedings at the Adventurers’ Guild, and to meet with the rest of the party so they can prepare for their escorting the young royals of Claydale during a dungeon expedition. Knowing that Princess Elena is among them, Alia feels she has no choice but to go along with the plan. As usual, trouble follows Alia wherever she goes, and when she finds herself in a difficult situation, she reunites with an old ally...

Genres: Light Novel, Fantasy

247 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 20, 2022

Reviews

[Mariána K · Rating 3 out of 5]

Surprisingly short...

I think you could adequately say that about 60% of this book is the actual story and the other 40% is filler. The prelude section basically recaps the previous book and the last 25% of the book are the bonus chapters, some of which feel really off chronologically and confused me until I realized they were happening before the story. This made for a disappointing read.

The volume covers the dungeon expedition and little else. With this volume we wrap up the arc preluding to the school days otomi Arc. The next volume should officially start the story events that happened within the infamous video game our hero has been avoiding her whole life. I'm very curious how this is all going to go, a lot of the setup will be coming to fruition.

On a side note, I'm definitely a fan of the potential crush with Feld. I think that would be a good match for her and would coincide with her desires to not be pulled into the world of the game plot. By having a healthy romantic interest outside of the story offerings she can still have healthy human relations without giving up her desire to be free from fate.

And while this volume may have been a disappointment for me, I still have every intention of reading the next one. The series as a whole is very good.

[Russell Gray · Rating 3 out of 5]

Almost like clockwork, I experienced the dreaded Book 4 slump with this one.

Alia, alongside her new borderline-legendary adventuring team, was reunited with Princess Elena as well as Karla as the royal expedition into the dungeon begins. Maybe I was expecting a little more payoff, but it felt like the reunion was glossed over to keep the expedition moving.

The biggest issue I had in this volume was suspending my belief to allow the internal logic of the plot to keep things moving. It became much harder to wave away the fact that many of our main characters are mere 11-year-old children and that they have all ascended to heights that most people never achieve in their lives.

Then things escalated even further with the level of the dungeon boss. And what awaits us in the next volume after experiencing the very peak of this world's power levels? A magic school arc.

While the author might manage to write an intriguing school arc with a fair amount of politics and maybe some foreign power intrusion, I just can't force myself to get excited for a middle-school Harry Potter book one type of magic school when after seeing a bunch of mythological fighting happen. I feel like it will just be too hard to take any of it seriously.

Unfortunately, I think this will mark the end of my foray into this series. It was a mix of ups and downs, with some nice high points in books 2 and 3, so I got some decent value out of the experience. But I also know when to cut my losses and this feels like a good time to wrap things up.

[Alarna · Rating 4 out of 5]

good. :)