I blitzed through several volumes of "Enough with This Slow Life! I Was Reincarnated as a High Elf and Now I'm Bored" because it's a wonderful read.
It has a few things that make it stand out. First is that the main character definitively does not want to be an adventurer and instead wants to learn about different things. He learns first how to craft things with his hands, then he learns the sword (not to kill but because he thought the art form was beautiful), and finally magic (just because he thought it was interesting). It's about the relationships and daily challenges and successes along the way.
There are a few examples of battles, but they're brief and not the core focus of the story. For example, he goes to fight a vampire in the second book, but that's just not the focus at all. Instead the focus is on his relationships with other characters such as his son, a famous elven adventurer, and several generations of students at the dojo he trained at.
He often revisits places he was earlier in the story so a major theme is the passage time, the fleeting nature of human life, and the ongoing consequences of your actions over time are major themes, as is the different passage of time of the different beings -- as a high elf he lives for a millennium, lower elves live about 600 years, half elves and dwarves live about 300-400 years, and humans live about as long as you'd expect, and being the longest lived he quickly outlives many of the humans he befriends.
I really enjoyed reading and I've got another half book to go and a new volume released this month.
It has a few things that make it stand out. First is that the main character definitively does not want to be an adventurer and instead wants to learn about different things. He learns first how to craft things with his hands, then he learns the sword (not to kill but because he thought the art form was beautiful), and finally magic (just because he thought it was interesting). It's about the relationships and daily challenges and successes along the way.
There are a few examples of battles, but they're brief and not the core focus of the story. For example, he goes to fight a vampire in the second book, but that's just not the focus at all. Instead the focus is on his relationships with other characters such as his son, a famous elven adventurer, and several generations of students at the dojo he trained at.
He often revisits places he was earlier in the story so a major theme is the passage time, the fleeting nature of human life, and the ongoing consequences of your actions over time are major themes, as is the different passage of time of the different beings -- as a high elf he lives for a millennium, lower elves live about 600 years, half elves and dwarves live about 300-400 years, and humans live about as long as you'd expect, and being the longest lived he quickly outlives many of the humans he befriends.
I really enjoyed reading and I've got another half book to go and a new volume released this month.
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