![]() ![]() So many light novels amount to either retellings of computer-game experiences, or visions of fantasy worlds heavily inspired by such games. Handing her the last decade of her life to live again, unexplained fates leave her with the bloodstained diary that her alternate self maintained right up until the day of her death, and a chance to do things better. Nozomu Mochitsuki’s novel Tearmoon Empire offers a tantalising prospect – a do-over for this fantasyland’s version of Marie Antoinette. But now, here she is, thirteen years old again, as if nothing had ever happened. Or was it? The teenage princess Mia Luna Tearmoon vividly recalls being eight years older, over-thrown in a revolution, enduring three years in prison and eventually being marched out to the scaffold, to be beheaded by a guillotine in front of a braying crowd of angry citizens. Then she woke up, and it was all a dream. ![]()
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