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The Saga of Tanya the Evil, Vol. 1 (light novel): Deus lo Vult Kindle Edition
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherYen On
- Publication dateDecember 19, 2017
- Reading age16 years and up
- Grade level11 and up
- File size14173 KB
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- ASIN : B07288XBFB
- Publisher : Yen On (December 19, 2017)
- Publication date : December 19, 2017
- Language : English
- File size : 14173 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 409 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #99,931 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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Supposedly Tanya is evil, but is evil just being pragmatic and calculated? No cruelty, no overarching plot to take over the world, or to exact malicious intent upon her enemies. No hint of betrayal or evil deeds.
The book mainly reads like a military nerd's dream sheet, and for every line of dialog, you're treated to about two large paragraphs of exposition from a character's mind about the working and mechanisms of a simple conversation.
The only character you really 'get to know' is Tanya. But you only learn about her from 90% exposition. The rest of the characters seem to come of the same as the exposition, with little to no personality, motivations, drives, ambitions, etc.
I'll be clear the writing itself, and the arguments for military conflicts are extremely well written, and the writer is clearly knowledgeable about military history. But the writer seems to not know how to write characters or a tangible story.
Furthermore the book tends to jump between characters and you have to somehow figure out who's perspective you're reading from based on... exposition.
If you're a military buff, you'll enjoy this isekai. Otherwise, if you're looking for a story that might be as deep as Overlord in the aspect of 'evil' you'll be sorely missing out.
Bought this book because I saw the anime and thought it would be perfect to read the source material and once again this is actually true, but not without a caveat... which really depends on your taste.
The book, is really well written (unlike my review) The story centers on Tanya or Mr. Salary man, a man who followed the rules for everythingalways going by the book and quite full of himself gets into trouble with a superior being known as "being X" after having a teological discussion with him about why man tends to forget about the existence of god. Tanya, formarly known as Mr. Salary man now must find her place in this alternate Earth like world and use her knowledge of history to her advantage, still it will prove to be challenging as being X, is constantly watching and throwing wrenches in her plans and try to make her a faithful believer.
Ok with that out of the way, now I want to talk about the rest, when compared to the anime, the book constantly explains each point made or each idea very carefully, explaining all posibilities that can be taken to perform any plan any decision and at times not only from 1 character but from different characters point of view, this is actually great at points as you see how Tanya or other characters reach their conclucions to problems or situations and feel fully satisfied with their decisions, that said it often makes the book feel a bit filled with extra and you might feel like you want the story to progress a bit faster, really this my only gripe with this book, I did like all the explaining and all but more often than not I felt like I wanted it to go a bit faster, that said, if you like detailed explanations for everything then this is going to be perfect for you, the author tries not to leave any stone unturned when their characters are tackling a situation and in the case of Tanya even explaining why she takes her decisions, as you will see that, even though Tanya is considered a battle hardened patriot that every one should look up to, on the inside she often does things to get expected reactions from people in order to later take away something from it, be it a better (safer) position in the war or to get promotions, still she gets things done, and done they are as like I mentioned before she goes by the book and the military book often states that you must do as you are told by command so she does it whether she likes it or not and she expects the same from her subordinates, to the point that she can freak out or rather administer hard punishment for people who don't follow the rules.
Having seen the anime also helped me identify the characters, as they have some long German names, I think people who go directly into the book, might have some trouble following or identifying the characters as they sometimes appear in a chapter and then you don't hear from them for a few chapters.
In the end the story is quite interesting and more fulfilling than the anime as it gives you more insight to character actions, yes even for divine beings, there is actually a chapter dedicated to the divine beings and their problematics which I found very interesting, all in all, quite an enjoyable read except for the slow story progression which is the readon I docked it 1 star, I'd give it a 4.5 if I could, but alas I can't.
Anyway I recommend this book and I hope you like my review.
The first thing I should state is that Tanya the evil comes in three flavors, an anime, a manga, and the novel. All three are different, but some in more subtle ways that others. On the surface the anime is the most grounded in earth with fewer displays of outright magic, with the manga being the most magical and the novel someplace inbetween. The anime is also far more extreme in the expression of characters and actions, especially Tanya. The Manga more closely follows the anime here while the novel is very introspective and almost comes across as a completely different story. The plots maybe more or less the same, but they couldn't be much different otherwise.
This might drag some readers down as the pace is quite slow and unlike the manga and the anime ,which are both action packed, the book doesn't actually feature all that much action at all. Instead you get a lot of internal story telling from the prospective of several characters and often a single scene will be played out from different points of view to fill in the things you might of missed. The story telling is top notch and I cannot express enough how much I enjoyed it.
One of the things of the anime I found particularly uninteresting was the way in which it attempted to make Tanya act evil for the sake of evil, but this really isn't her character. In the novel Tanya acts logical in her own little way the entire time and she never does anything just to appear evil to a reader. In fact her actions are typically very deeply scrutinized to the point where you could ask is she really all that evil or is this just a matter of prospective? You can be the judge, the book doesn't pigeonhole you into an answer to that question like the manga and anime do.
Another big difference is the character of god in the three. In both the anime and the manga god is a very overt character that is inescapable from the story, but there is subtly in the book that the other two medium do not even come close to achieving. This will once again come down to a matter of taste, as the internal narrative and external narrative types appeal to different audiences, but the book manages more of a balance where the other two mediums do not.
Ultimately I cannot recommend this book enough, the depth it goes into and the research into making a realistic seeming world war is far beyond what I Would of ever expected from this book. The anime though fun, doesn't honestly even hold a candle to how good this is. While the pace is considerably slower, the book was still a page turner for me and makes me very much look forward to volume two which I already have on pre-order.
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多読用に英語版の本を探してる方くらいしか見ないでしょうけど、はっきり言って非常に読みにくい。
まず日本語版で分かりにくかった彼と我と、主観的な説明と第三者的説明、戦闘描写と心境描写の差がさらに酷くなっている。
地の文の心境を読んでいたらいつの間にか戦闘が始まっていた、または終わっていたという事が多々あります。
それに加えて他の方のレビューにもあるように繰り返しが多い、なので前述の通り地の文読んでいて説明長いなと感じてようやく地の文終わったと思う頃にはいくつもの段階をすっ飛ばして話が進んでいるように感じるかもしれません。
ただ楽しんで読む分には非常に向きませんが、勉強として腰を据えて読む分には読み応えがあると思います。
漠然と読もうとすると目の運動になるだけだったり、はたまたベッドの上で読んでいたら気付いたら寝ていた、そんな読みにくく読み応えのある本です。
自分はkindleで辞書を死ぬほど引いて、それでも出なかった文はスマホで引用して熟語を調べたりしました。
なので書籍版は決してお勧めしません。
長くなりましたが、英語多読で自信つけたい方にはオススメしませんが、打ちのめされた数年後、向上した英語力の確認にはいいんでは無いでしょうか。





