Early Years by TurtleMe
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

After beginning this, I was struck by how similar it was to Jobless Reincarnation. Hell, it read almost exactly LIKE Jobless Reincarnation except for a few key details and shuffled names/roles. And after my curiosity got the best of me, I realized this came out two years AFTER Jobless Reincarnation, so it's either a love letter for the original or it's a criticism and advancement of the other. Either way, it's damn close enough to be way more than canny.

Not that I mind. I'm enjoying it and curious to see how it diverges and grows. It IS a progression fantasy, after all, and most of them generally stick pretty close to the template and get wild from there anyway.

I'm flying through it, either way.

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