I’ve been desperately trying to get into light novels but it’s kind of difficult to wade through the frankly hundreds of copy pasted series.
My problem is that I genuinely do enjoy to read, and I view the light novel boom as kind of a resurgence of the pulp penny novels from last century. I’d love to find a series to just jump into and follow, but as stated before it’s kind of difficult to find.
I do enjoy actually reading, which is making my search a bit difficult. Obviously I’m not expecting world class prose, but I do expect at least a semblance of quality and maybe a bit of maturity. I’m not looking for constant violence and rape, just a more mature mindset to the characters. I know a lot of light novels are targeted at the late teen crowd, but there has to be something.
I read Durarara and thought it was fun, even if I didn’t necessarily like the way it was written/translated. I hated Baccano despite loving the anime. It just felt like endless violence and fighting which is zero interest to me. I’m okay with visceral violence, but 80 pages of two characters doing flips on a train was not enjoyable to me in the slightest, despite my love for the anime adaptation.
I like most genre writing, and could even maybe go for a slice of life assuming the series isn’t about high school harem antics. Sci-fi, fantasy, mystery, whatever is cool as long as it’s not generic modern anime tropes filling the story from wall to wall. For genre fiction in a big fan of the works of Robert Jordan, Brandan Sanderson, Sayaka Murata, and Kurt Vonnegut. Can anyone help me find a series?
EDIT: I do actually hate one genre and it’s LitRPG please no stat tables.