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The Agartha Loop #2
The Agartha Loop 2: The Agartha Loop, Book 2
In the Agarthan Loop, where time rewound,
A magical girl with faith unwound,
Bound by love and endless strife,
She battles fate to bring back life.
Twice she fails, but love prevails,
Her soul entwined with the one she hails,
Their journey weaves through time and space,
In Agartha's Loop, their hearts embrace.
A magical girl with faith unwound,
Bound by love and endless strife,
She battles fate to bring back life.
Twice she fails, but love prevails,
Her soul entwined with the one she hails,
Their journey weaves through time and space,
In Agartha's Loop, their hearts embrace.
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Published March 18, 2025
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February 20, 2025
This is the second in a series where they don't have their own titles. Read in order.
Spoilers for the previous story. You know what you are getting, not least because it's a repeat. Amber gets to go back to school again and do things she already has done. And the author actually handled that relatively well with enough changing to make it all interesting, including the crush dynamics around Amber and her friends.
I had a bit of an issue with Amber not thinking about her powers at all on her own. There were a couple of times her power would have been extremely useful and she just didn't even think about it. Like research for example. You found a deadend, how about maybe rewinding a bit and exploring a different branch? Only that would have forced the author to flesh that part out more, maybe? I dunno. That wasn't the only time I felt like Amber wasn't bothering with applying her core powerset to move the plot forward and it felt a little unthoughtout and potentially authorially manipulated.
And then we learn about a tragedy and Amber's complete lack of digging out the details, let alone consider ways she could help with a bit of timey wimey shenanigans, frustrated me. I mean, what if she ends up with another big do-over?
Which brings us to the cliffhanger* I knew was coming. It's there in the title. Apparently, each book is aimed at being a groundhog day like rerun of the whole first week of school? I am so not down for that. The thought of losing all those relationships and starting from scratch again? It made me want to cry. I can't imagine how Amber wouldn't find herself crushed.
Anyway, this was wobbling from four stars with my frustrations, but managed to be something I'd have rounded up to four. So three stars with the cliffhanger and I am completely uninterested in picking up the next (should it surface) and setting myself up for another go round.
A note about Chaste: Amber is a little more aware of the web of crushes around her this time. But she, herself, is uninterested in romance so there's nothing more than teases and blushes. So this is pretty chaste. And yeah, magical girl crush tropes are apparently a thing.
* Cliffhangers and why they are evil: Cliffhangers are the ultimate disrespect to readers. They're an overt emotional manipulation to invest you in the next story by holding a metaphorical pistol to your head saying "you don't get a satisfying conclusion unless you read the next book, sucka!". Or, less hyperbolically, "I don't trust you to be interested in the next story unless I employ this emotional manipulation to ensure that you are." If you don't believe me that they are an active offense to readers, try this mental exercise: imagine for a moment that an author put a big star on the front of their story proclaiming "Contains Cliffhanger!" Would that make readers more or less likely to want to pick up that story? Right. That's all you really need to know about cliffhangers. Which is why cliffhangers are an automatic loss of at least one star.
Spoilers for the previous story. You know what you are getting, not least because it's a repeat. Amber gets to go back to school again and do things she already has done. And the author actually handled that relatively well with enough changing to make it all interesting, including the crush dynamics around Amber and her friends.
I had a bit of an issue with Amber not thinking about her powers at all on her own. There were a couple of times her power would have been extremely useful and she just didn't even think about it. Like research for example. You found a deadend, how about maybe rewinding a bit and exploring a different branch? Only that would have forced the author to flesh that part out more, maybe? I dunno. That wasn't the only time I felt like Amber wasn't bothering with applying her core powerset to move the plot forward and it felt a little unthoughtout and potentially authorially manipulated.
And then we learn about a tragedy and Amber's complete lack of digging out the details, let alone consider ways she could help with a bit of timey wimey shenanigans, frustrated me. I mean, what if she ends up with another big do-over?
Which brings us to the cliffhanger* I knew was coming. It's there in the title. Apparently, each book is aimed at being a groundhog day like rerun of the whole first week of school? I am so not down for that. The thought of losing all those relationships and starting from scratch again? It made me want to cry. I can't imagine how Amber wouldn't find herself crushed.
Anyway, this was wobbling from four stars with my frustrations, but managed to be something I'd have rounded up to four. So three stars with the cliffhanger and I am completely uninterested in picking up the next (should it surface) and setting myself up for another go round.
A note about Chaste: Amber is a little more aware of the web of crushes around her this time. But she, herself, is uninterested in romance so there's nothing more than teases and blushes. So this is pretty chaste. And yeah, magical girl crush tropes are apparently a thing.
* Cliffhangers and why they are evil: Cliffhangers are the ultimate disrespect to readers. They're an overt emotional manipulation to invest you in the next story by holding a metaphorical pistol to your head saying "you don't get a satisfying conclusion unless you read the next book, sucka!". Or, less hyperbolically, "I don't trust you to be interested in the next story unless I employ this emotional manipulation to ensure that you are." If you don't believe me that they are an active offense to readers, try this mental exercise: imagine for a moment that an author put a big star on the front of their story proclaiming "Contains Cliffhanger!" Would that make readers more or less likely to want to pick up that story? Right. That's all you really need to know about cliffhangers. Which is why cliffhangers are an automatic loss of at least one star.
January 16, 2025
How did it get more dire??
So Loop 1 ends pretty harshly. Loop 2 gets past the ending of Loop 1 but somehow ends in an even worse spot than Loop 1?! I dread to think how Loop 3 will end.
That being said, if this is the route we're taking then I'm less concerned about over repetition.
So Loop 1 ends pretty harshly. Loop 2 gets past the ending of Loop 1 but somehow ends in an even worse spot than Loop 1?! I dread to think how Loop 3 will end.
That being said, if this is the route we're taking then I'm less concerned about over repetition.
August 22, 2024
Wow
Looking forward to more!
I know time travel has been done before, but this is really well written. I don't think there has been a Magical Girl with time travel before.
It's kinda refreshing to read a book where the main character screws up so badly that she gets killed. I'm referring to the end of book 1, but this book is called loop 2. So we can assume there will be a loop 3.
Anyways, this allows the MC to be a realistic newbie. She tries her best and does some great things, but it isn't enough. No plot armor. Horrible things happen because the enemy is strong and prepared, but when the MC loses, she still has the OP option to try again.
Looking forward to more!
I know time travel has been done before, but this is really well written. I don't think there has been a Magical Girl with time travel before.
It's kinda refreshing to read a book where the main character screws up so badly that she gets killed. I'm referring to the end of book 1, but this book is called loop 2. So we can assume there will be a loop 3.
Anyways, this allows the MC to be a realistic newbie. She tries her best and does some great things, but it isn't enough. No plot armor. Horrible things happen because the enemy is strong and prepared, but when the MC loses, she still has the OP option to try again.
August 31, 2024
Such a good second installment in the series! Loved the way the characters and relationships in the team develop in this one, as well as the further exploration of Agartha's history. The action was intense and the end made me super excited about reading the next book. Wasn't a huge fan of the "shipping" elements in this, but otherwise, really loved everything about it.
June 27, 2025
Really got hooked on the second book. If you've read the first, its more of the same. Sadly Amber doesn't really seem to get a handle on her powers, and it ends on another cliff hanger. Really looking forward to seeing more in this series.
July 5, 2025
Amazing how utterly sharmless and meandering this book is. Time loop of 4 days with barely anything to say about time loops, time rewind or any sort of drama or stakes.
Outstandingly bad.
Outstandingly bad.
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