From the Bookshelf: RWBY: After the Fall

Happening on an end-of-the-bookshelf display of RWBY novels in the young adult section of the area bookstore did get my attention. For some years now, should I come across “based on TV and movies” novels I’ll at most glance at their covers before moving on, and that despite (or because of) past interest in some of them. At that particular moment, though, I did think of the translated-from-Japanese “light novels” I’ve read a few series of (being the original source of left-off-past-the-beginning anime series I’ve already seen), and how often their prose can seem to leave me with subtle indigestion. (Perhaps ebooks from J-Novel Club have suited me better than most books from Yen Press.) When I bought E.C. Myers’ RWBY: After the Fall, I might have been thinking of little more than “making a peculiar experiment,” bypassing certain barriers I only have myself to blame when it comes to “reading new fiction” these days, but also suiting me better just for having been written in English to start with. In any case, when I bought it I was still working my way through the sixth series of the computer-animated show; on the off chance the book would touch on it, I waited to start reading.
( The continuing adventures of Team CFVY )