#Translateathon Round 5 Wrap-Up

So, these were very amusing, and the fact that the translation, the English translation is so modern and uses very modern language, I think it really heightens how frankly vulgar and rude a lot of these are.

So, I enjoyed this, but I will admit that I did not understand a lot of what he was talking about in the last section. I think it's part three.

I loved this book. It is definitely like literary fiction with this little bit of speculative element to it and I love the way that the story was structured that it's all these fictional writers writing about each other like each writer is actually a fictional character in the other writers book or fragment of a book and it was just it was a really interesting way to tell this story and to explore the themes of disappearance and loss of people and working through that and writing through that.

When I read the first volume of it I thought well this is it seems like a pretty run-of-the-mill like middle grade fantasy. Very typical stuff going on but the artwork is just gorgeous and the magic system is pretty unusual and different and I've warmed up it more and more over the first four volumes.

And my major takeaway from volume four is that there was a lot of character development, as well as some pretty obvious messages and themes in this one. And I feel like there's a lot of time being taken to explore all of the characters and their journeys, and not just Coco, which I like.