harmony 's review for:

2.0

As amusing as *parts* of this story were, the writing was undoubtedly an unedited, amateur effort. It was lengthy, meandering, and sometimes extremely repetitive. In addition, the two main characters have one defining hobby masquerading as a personality (chess and running respectively) with essentially no character growth. Erin starts out as a scared, well meaning, industrious girl and that's where she ends up, whereas Ryoka begins and ends as a stubborn, angry, highly principled but self-sabotaging one. Stuff happens, people die, the heroines dig in their heels on whatever, and apparently meaningless levels are acquired (or not). The voice acting was pretty good except that Erin's voice got increasingly annoying over time, but not so much that I stopped listening. This was perfectly fine to zone out to for a hefty number of hours but I wouldn't call it good literature.