I wanted to like this light novel so, so bad.
I mean, the very first paragraph where Yuuki says she has no redeeming qualities? Then the subsequent next few paragraphs where we learn about our corrupted by the internet heroine and how she gets summoned to another world... I mean, it was the absolute perfect setup for a parody that wouldn't be forgotten anytime soon, and a story with some wonderful scientific logic thrown into it at all.
Unfortunately, this book is al~l downhill from there.
And yes, my usage of the tilde there is intentional, and if that confuses you, well, this book has a graphic amount of inappropriate usages of the tilde, so be ready to scratch your head at what the author was thinking until scratching becomes pulling!
The grammar issues certainly don't stop there, as apparently the author never read a book on how to format a book, even a light novel. The entire book's alignment is justified, which means you are going to be reading a ton of sentences with massive spacing issues. It gets pretty distracting by page three.
Also, I'm all for an author writing about what he knows well in his life, but since this author is a scientist in real life, and a brilliant one at that, there is so much of these chapters which are like mini-essays on probability theory that I forgot sometimes I was reading a light novel. It felt many, many times like I was reading something you buy at a college bookstore right before the fall semester begins. It disrupted so much of what this story could've been and honestly, just wasn't necessary to get the point across that Yuuki has a 100% chance of succeeding in her mission. Cool, thanks for explaining that three hundred times in this tiny, 80 page book.
Oh, and by tiny, I do mean tiny! This book is micro, so please understand that those 80 pages you are reading are really the equivalent of about twenty pages or so of a normal novel.
By far, the worst part about this book and the main reason I've even decided to spend time writing this review, is the fact that it's ultra-misleading. The book comes off as a Japanese story, but there is hardly anything Japanese about it at all. I mean, it's classified in the Kindle Bookstore as being an Asian myth, but where was the 'Asian' part to it? Is it because the authors said he was inspired by Japanese light novels to write this book? That would be okay, except there is no cultural references whatsoever to Japan in this book, save for the fact that, of course, the author has to bring up tentacles and, well... all that goes along with tentacles, and, um, Japan. But other than this, the fact the main character is named Yuuki, and a few usages of Japanese words and honorifics are used here and there, absolutely nothing about this story or this book invokes or showcases Japanese ideology, tradition, cultures, customs.
Talk about a letdown.
What's worse, I think it's somewhat of a hideous commentary on perhaps what the author thinks of Japanese girls that he felt the heroine of this book needed to be one. A heroine who watches adult videos all day and all night online, then has admitted fantasies of tentacles doing unspeakable things to her, and of course, only has sex on the mind when not watching sex online. This isn't parody. In fact, this feels very much like racism to me. I mean, my daughter is Japanese, so I cringe to think that this author might look at my daughter and think that's all she's worth is this horrible perspective of Japanese girls and the things in Japan that the world thinks are weird. And this book doesn't help change the perception of what the world thinks about Japan and its female citizens at all. And by the way, I wouldn't even think this way if in the context of this light novel, the author gave Yuuki a reason to be a Yuuki and not a Tina, or Eliza, or a Samantha. I wouldn't have had any problem with the author talking about tentacles being used for gratification if the author would've taken some time to maybe use it in a clever fashion somehow in this book, i.e., a way which hasn't already been done to death before by others who are on the outside looking in at Japan. Seriously, I kept asking myself, why did this girl have to be Japanese? The only reason I kept thinking, other than the author making an unconscious (I hope it's not conscious) commentary about what he thinks of Japanese girls and which I hope I'm wrong about, is the fact that this book is pure, 100% clickbait for those like me who enjoy reading books about Japan and Japanese culture and things dealing with Japanese people. Well, mission accomplished I guess.
Last, but certainly not least, the book is,plot wise, one big tease. You think we would at least see some actions by Yuuki that live up to every chapter in the book going on and on about how perverted and corrupted she is, and yet the most that ever happens besides her and everyone else taking about sex is Yuuki commands something (don't want to give it away) to suck on her toes.
That's it.
So if you are expecting there to be some kind of sexually graphic content in here, there isn't. If you are expecting to read a fantastic parody sprinkled with science that pushes the story along instead of slows it down to a crawl, you'll be disappointed. And if you are wondering how in the world could the author, who is smarter than most people in the universe and who deals with artificial intelligence theory and is beyond mentally gifted, could write something this horrible, well, join the club.
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