It has been almost two years since Lymee awoke to find herself in the midst of a battle in an oriental fantasy like world. She has spent the past year and a half traveling the world with her companions and not everything that has happened to her in that time has been good. While her journey has had its ups and downs she feels that she is no closer to finding the thing that she is searching for or forgiving the woman she had once loved. While on the trail of a Sorceress that might know how Lymee came to be in this world Lymee hears rumors about someone claiming to be the Heavenly Fox. Someone that is not her. Now Lymee must track down this person and hopefully undo any damage they might have caused but despite her best efforts Lymee once again gets swept up into political intrigue, assassinations and even more lesbian love. The Wandering Traveler is a novel approximately 106 thousand words in length.
This book was enjoyable, but had a darker tone then book 1. What I did enjoy was the world building. It was better done than book 1, as the characters are traveling and seeing different lands. As a reader you have a much better grasp on the lands, people, religion and magics than before. This book does deal with rape. The rape happened between the books, so we only know about it through brief flashbacks and how it affected the character. There is no actual rape scene. I know some people don't like to read book with rape in it. I don't, and while I don't think it really was needed in the book, I understand why the author used it to explain such a change in the character. On the fun side, there is lots of adventure which is always a need in a good fantasy book. Plus, I couldn't help but like the fox, and I mean the actual fox, not The Heavenly Fox. Anyway, I will be reading the next installment and would still recommend these book to fantasy fans.
I really enjoyed this second book. As much as I love reading about Lymee with Yunna, Voss and Yoni, having her travel on her own and actually finding her purpose on her own was quite fitting and I liked that it happened on her own - save for Katsune, of course.
Also, I’m really happy a lot of the dark and rough stuff was implied, even though Lymee thought about it and the group had to endure it all, not having to read about the horrid thing was a blessing to me.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
I only really have two notes: 1) heh. Apparently my vague feeling in the first book re: arousal of main character was correct. 2) the fantasy element was a lot more notice-able in this book, though, except for certain scenes, still subtle.
and then: I liked the book. I'd recommend it. I wish book three "The Gloriousness of Being Straight", or whatever the title was that I saw in the endnotes, was already available for me to immediately read. I'm actually sad about that. That it isn't available for me to immediately read.
oh and: Since it was mentioned in the end-notes, I'm not exactly sure what was meant by the "180 change in the main character's personality". I mean, the story opens one and a half years after the first book. After much adventure. And travel. And stuff. Like rape. So, um, personality should, at the very least, alter a tiny bit, yes? Heck, just living as a 17 year old in the real world, and then suddenly living a year and a half in a world where 17 is not only an adult, but is three or four years older than most people are when they are considered to be adults in this other world would alter a person's personality. And that's without adding the experience gained from traveling around having adventures.
I liked the first book, but the characters seemed a little flat. This book was much richer. In good stories the characters change and grow. Not just the main character, but others as well. This has character growth, lots of action, some great theological pondering, plus lesbians. What more could you want?
Much better than the first book. Less amount of people throwing themselves at the main character. And less emphasis now on the fixation on breasts. That part was the thing that almost made me stop reading the first book.
The greater world building is boring and the objectification of girls while absolutely botching series sexual assault and rape scenes of said underage girls made this book unforgivable
I thought the first book was wonderful and it is, this one however kept making me shake my head in awe as well as make me bite my gotten lip in anticipation. If I had been in a moving theater watching this as a film O would have been sitting on the edge of my seat. So much going on almost info over load. This series just keeps better and better.
An entertaining continuation of the tale begun in The Heavenly Fox. Could have used more editing to eliminated incorrect wording that results from relying heavily on spell checking and not enough on proof reading.
This continued the story a couple years after the first book. I enjoyed it but wish We would have seen more of the travels. Can't wait to read the next book!