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Roll Over and Die Light Novel #4
ROLL OVER AND DIE: I Will Fight for an Ordinary Life with My Love and Cursed Sword! (Light Novel) Vol. 4
A Broken Hero
After learning what Jean did to Flum and witnessing what horrors the spirals have wrought on Maria’s body, Cyril finally snaps. Fleeing the castle, she wanders the streets until she crosses paths with a child named Mute. This chance encounter puts her story on the fast track toward tragedy as the capital counts down to a chaotic anniversary!
After learning what Jean did to Flum and witnessing what horrors the spirals have wrought on Maria’s body, Cyril finally snaps. Fleeing the castle, she wanders the streets until she crosses paths with a child named Mute. This chance encounter puts her story on the fast track toward tragedy as the capital counts down to a chaotic anniversary!
320 pages, Paperback
First published January 30, 2020
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158 books17 followersAlice Ernestine Prin, nicknamed the Queen of Montparnasse, and often known as Kiki de Montparnasse.
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January 22, 2022
ROLL OVER AND DIE #4 picks up the slack. Reader curiosities concerning the usefulness of the remainder of the hero party and reader worries over the impending conflicts-of-interest among characters who should know better but refuse to act as such constitute the bulk of this novel. That is to say, the author somehow found a way to assemble a whole novel out of what might have otherwise constitute multiple side stories. Maria's corruption? Linus's dedication? Nekt's quest for hope and belonging? The slow-burning pretense of Satuhkie Ranagalki, the rebellious church cardinal? Each of these mysterious and mythical, wayward problems require time and energy to dissect; ROLL OVER AND DIE #4, somehow, some way, effectively knots them all together.
Interestingly, the current volume reads very much like a second and concluding arc of the travails of the previous installment. The previous volume purportedly saw the collapse of the "children" research program and the subsequent exiling of Mother and all of its assorted problems. Not so fast. The necromancy project may be toast, but it appears the children project isn't quite dead. Such are the issues for Flum and her team of adventurers, whose open rebellion against the church has brought in a handful of allies and enemies, equally new and equally treacherous.
The chimera project has gained prominence, forcing Mother underground to proceed with the third and fourth generations of adolescent experimentation. The problem? While Mother hacks away in the warehouse district, the children wreak havoc about the capitol. The kids' assorted powers of time distortion, emotional manipulation, and kinetic energy are upping the body count. Gadhio and Eterna, and many other adventurers, step in to stem the damage. Flum enters the fight, but must choose between killing these damaged innocents and appealing for their redemption. Nekt gambles on their redemption, but will she be made to suffer for her compassion?
ROLL OVER AND DIE #4 does a great job of pivoting to tell other characters' stories insofar as they relate to Flum's perpetual journey toward heroism. Nekt hates relying on others, hates feeling betrayed, and hates putting in more energy than is necessary; and yet, the relationship she spies between Flum and Milkit, between Eterna and Ink, leaves her increasingly hungry for her lost humanity. Maria's anger is nearly all-consuming and her abuse at the hands of the church is laid bare; and yet, the dotage she receives from Linus, and the nod of acknowledgement she earns from others for retaining her sense of self despite her dark core's degeneracy, push the woman of the cloth to her breaking point.
The novel does a so-so job of articulating the deliberations of Cyrill Sweechka, a swordswoman and until the current volume, silent link in the hero's party. The young woman's brute strength and indefatigable courage are reputed many times over. Cyrill, however, is guilt-ridden over her ignorance concerning the departure and presumed loss of Flum, her only friend. Her anxiety, depression, and lack of hope sends her into a spiral that's both convenient and somewhat annoying. Cyrill is an important character to the novel series, but the author pulls her together more akin to a whiny teenager than a questing hero with valid doubts. Still, to the author's credit, Cyrill was a country girl before taking up the sword. Perhaps the character's lack of agency and weak personality are more appropriate than not.
In terms of villainy, the novel falls back on one of the more traditional oddities of horror fiction: giant babies. Flum and friends combat an army of maniacal child-fiends, beings obsessed with ripping flesh from bone, devouring everything in sight, and in some cases, replicating like monsters. Let it not be said that ROLL OVER AND DIE #4 doesn't tip its hat to classical horror. The book eventually tilts toward more appropriately heroic facets of Flum's journey (e.g., protecting the innocent, believing in oneself), but not before dealing readers' psychology a blow with massive demon babies that bend space and time.
Unanswered questions remain, but only until the next volume in the novel series trickles through. The current volume dabbles in a bit of science fiction by introducing a character or two that speak to the unique bridge of the wildly unknowable in which the current world operates, and it's unclear whether this has cracked the novel's veneer of the supernatural or strengthened it. Further, the growing unfeasibility of the church going about its business without regard to the welfare of the populace, while great for the body count, isn't very pragmatic from a narrative standpoint. What good is ultimate power if there's nobody left to rule over? ROLL OVER AND DIE #4 is another entertaining title; it's probably a few hundred pages too long and the author needs to know when to simply let the villains die out, but the book still delivers.
Interestingly, the current volume reads very much like a second and concluding arc of the travails of the previous installment. The previous volume purportedly saw the collapse of the "children" research program and the subsequent exiling of Mother and all of its assorted problems. Not so fast. The necromancy project may be toast, but it appears the children project isn't quite dead. Such are the issues for Flum and her team of adventurers, whose open rebellion against the church has brought in a handful of allies and enemies, equally new and equally treacherous.
The chimera project has gained prominence, forcing Mother underground to proceed with the third and fourth generations of adolescent experimentation. The problem? While Mother hacks away in the warehouse district, the children wreak havoc about the capitol. The kids' assorted powers of time distortion, emotional manipulation, and kinetic energy are upping the body count. Gadhio and Eterna, and many other adventurers, step in to stem the damage. Flum enters the fight, but must choose between killing these damaged innocents and appealing for their redemption. Nekt gambles on their redemption, but will she be made to suffer for her compassion?
ROLL OVER AND DIE #4 does a great job of pivoting to tell other characters' stories insofar as they relate to Flum's perpetual journey toward heroism. Nekt hates relying on others, hates feeling betrayed, and hates putting in more energy than is necessary; and yet, the relationship she spies between Flum and Milkit, between Eterna and Ink, leaves her increasingly hungry for her lost humanity. Maria's anger is nearly all-consuming and her abuse at the hands of the church is laid bare; and yet, the dotage she receives from Linus, and the nod of acknowledgement she earns from others for retaining her sense of self despite her dark core's degeneracy, push the woman of the cloth to her breaking point.
The novel does a so-so job of articulating the deliberations of Cyrill Sweechka, a swordswoman and until the current volume, silent link in the hero's party. The young woman's brute strength and indefatigable courage are reputed many times over. Cyrill, however, is guilt-ridden over her ignorance concerning the departure and presumed loss of Flum, her only friend. Her anxiety, depression, and lack of hope sends her into a spiral that's both convenient and somewhat annoying. Cyrill is an important character to the novel series, but the author pulls her together more akin to a whiny teenager than a questing hero with valid doubts. Still, to the author's credit, Cyrill was a country girl before taking up the sword. Perhaps the character's lack of agency and weak personality are more appropriate than not.
In terms of villainy, the novel falls back on one of the more traditional oddities of horror fiction: giant babies. Flum and friends combat an army of maniacal child-fiends, beings obsessed with ripping flesh from bone, devouring everything in sight, and in some cases, replicating like monsters. Let it not be said that ROLL OVER AND DIE #4 doesn't tip its hat to classical horror. The book eventually tilts toward more appropriately heroic facets of Flum's journey (e.g., protecting the innocent, believing in oneself), but not before dealing readers' psychology a blow with massive demon babies that bend space and time.
Unanswered questions remain, but only until the next volume in the novel series trickles through. The current volume dabbles in a bit of science fiction by introducing a character or two that speak to the unique bridge of the wildly unknowable in which the current world operates, and it's unclear whether this has cracked the novel's veneer of the supernatural or strengthened it. Further, the growing unfeasibility of the church going about its business without regard to the welfare of the populace, while great for the body count, isn't very pragmatic from a narrative standpoint. What good is ultimate power if there's nobody left to rule over? ROLL OVER AND DIE #4 is another entertaining title; it's probably a few hundred pages too long and the author needs to know when to simply let the villains die out, but the book still delivers.
May 10, 2022
When I finished this volume, already knowing that the Japanese version of volume 5 isn't even out yet, I spent several minutes flailing at my best friend about needing more as soon as possible. I wouldn't even reasonably call this volume's ending a cliffhanger--I just desperately need to see this whole story through to the end!
April 4, 2022
The First half started very fast paced and one thing happened ofter another and I just couldn't put the book away but the second half was a little slower, weaker and for me a little too much friendship is magic but it had some nice turns and twists
July 11, 2022
Đúng kiểu hay quá trời quá đất, từng trang sách của truyện này khiến mình không dứt ra được mà phải đọc xong ngay mới được. Cơ mà quyển này càng ngày càng kinh dị, đọc đến mấy cảnh Flum bay đầu mất não mà mình phải thốt lên urghhh, nhưng nói chung là cuốn, truyện này mà chuyển thể thành anime chắc bá cháy luôn (cơ mà chắc sẽ có nhiều cảnh buồn nôn lắm), mong rằng bản manga sẽ nhanh chóng được phát hành ở Việt Nam
April 15, 2022
Este volumen está lleno de escenas sangrientas y mucho sufrimiento para la prota, quede realmente impactada en algunas partes de la historia 😵
Algo que realmente me gustó es que se encontró con el resto de los Héroes y dar paso a una disculpa dirigida a Flum.
Algo que realmente me gustó es que se encontró con el resto de los Héroes y dar paso a una disculpa dirigida a Flum.
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June 1, 2025Nécessaire vis à vis de son univers, je trouve quand même que ce volume traîne trop en longueur avec beaucoup de combats et une violence pas très bien dosée. Le combat final est cool néanmoins.
Puis bon Milkit et Flum continuent de flirter, moi ça me convient.
Puis bon Milkit et Flum continuent de flirter, moi ça me convient.
September 21, 2022
this is a mess
also, i can't stand cyrill. flum is too good for her.
also, i can't stand cyrill. flum is too good for her.
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December 29, 2022
for being a series supposedly about love (at least in part), this volume displayed a shocking lack of empathy.
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