- #1
While I do have to praise the structure of the story, especially it's length, the way it's executed and even the plot idea, those are unfortunately dwarfed by the lackluster and warped character elements inside of the book.This is supposed to be laid back "slow life" style of story, and I guess in some parts it is. But what mostly stands out in this story are how weird the other main cast characters are. Everyone other than main character is basically just a violent leech without any thoughts of their own. MC must obey them, produce stuff for them, and be a doormat for them.I get that it's done in guise of comedy, but how is it normal for a chef of a noble family to almost strangle the 3-year-old young master of the family? Or the father to beat his 6-year-old son unconscious because the child jokingly referenced to his past deeds? These are NOT normal, and it's all very weird. Even as comedy it was not funny or enjoyable. I can kind of deal with the whole 'tsundere' type older sister, of whose punching bag the MC is, especially since she's a child too and there's still some room for development in form of enlightenment but everyone? Literally everyone? Seriously?It just reads like this author tried very hard to imagine what would be like to have a 'happy' family that often quarrels (not seriously) and somehow warped it into becoming this kind of masochist situation, that's constantly bordering seriousness and is without any satisfaction elements. It all just feels really f*cking weird.Tentatively I'm giving it a three stars, because everything other than the character setting seems rather enjoyable. In my scaling that means "Worthy of reading", I'll just have to hope this unnecessarily stressful "comedic" element of being everyone's punching bag will eventually get removed. I mean for f*cks sake, it's supposed to be a happy/healing slow life story, right?