I Shall Survive Using Potions!: I Shall Survive Using Potions! Volume 1

FUNA

Feb 2019 · I Shall Survive Using Potions! Vol 1 · J-Novel Club

About this ebook

 One day, the supervisor in charge of watching over Earth was taking care of a distortion, when they made a mistake that caused Kaoru Nagase to lose her physical body. Not only that, but reincarnating her into a different, less culturally-advanced world is the only thing they can offer to do for her.

Not one to take this turn of events sitting down, Kaoru makes a demand: the power to create potions at any time she pleases, with whatever effect she wants it to have—and it doesn’t stop there either. She asks for a magical Item Box, the ability to understand and speak every language, and the same body she had back when she was a fifteen-year-old girl.

Using her newfound powers, Kaoru has to try and make a stable life for herself in a whole new world!

Ratings and reviews

Worst light novel ever. Terrible character . Unfunny. Uneventful. lOne of the worst books I have ever read. I could not relate to the main character at all. Nothing happened in this book, I was basically skipping through the pages at the end. Do yourself a favour and read something much better, like "Torture Princess" which I read before this and that is easily a 5 star rating. This on the other hand, seemed like it was written for a 3 year old. Avoid avoid avoid!

If you enjoy wholesome isekais about female characters (like The Saint's Magic Power, The White Cat's Revenge, The Savior's Book Café Story, or Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear), you'll likely enjoy this one as well. The main character is smart and crafty and has a knack for escaping trouble even though potions are her only skill. She's way more interested in finding a husband than the main characters in other series are, but that's pretty true to life for many people. However, I do NOT recommend buying this ebook from Google Play, as it can only be downloaded as an acsm file; you need an Adobe ID and Adobe Digital Editions to be able to read it outside of the app (or else go through a lot of trouble to potentially convert it a different way). I personally don't support Adobe so I'm stuck not being able to use an ebook I purchased the way I want to and could if I had bought it elsewhere. It would be way easier to go directly through the publisher or a bigger ebook distributor.

The series is an entertaining concept, but can be described as a whole very easily: everything is extremely, extremely convenient for the main character, who blatantly doesn't fit in the world. Their attitude regarding their situation is extremely grating, and there simply isn't a negative situation they can't get out of in under two minutes and half a page of exposition. The main character does not undergo even an iota of hardship, everyone wants their attention and affection, and they blatantly spit in the face of the established rules of the world and suffer zero consequences for doing so. They're a blatant Mary-Sue, and the entire story is basically everyone and everything pandering to them and marching to the beat of their drum, even as she maneuvers the orchestra off a cliff. If I could rate this lower than one out of five, I would. This series is absolutely not worth your time or money.