- #1
I loved this story and don't care much for where they took it in the ladder half of the book.It almost feels like they brought fantasy into the real world in this fiction. It was probably one of the most immersive fantasy experiences I've had. Not that it was particularly well-written, just the concept was so good that I could ignore all the flaws.Spoiler alert. The problem then became that I wanted to keep the two worlds linked. I wanted the novel to show a stable portal between the two worlds. Instead in the ladder half they began showing the two worlds couldn't be joined forever because it would break the universe. End of spoiler.As the story went on though, the series became less about showing off the the JSDF in the fantasy world and more about the politics going on behind the scenes. Long droning political scheming began and it just isn't what I wanted to read in this series. That kinda took away what made the story so immersive. So the first half I'd give a 4.5 but the ladder half is more like a 2.5 or a 3.