{"id":2412,"date":"2024-03-17T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=2412"},"modified":"2024-04-27T09:53:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T16:53:19","slug":"books-manga-the-legendary-fossi-by-abyu-besi-chung-jong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/03\/17\/books-manga-the-legendary-fossi-by-abyu-besi-chung-jong\/","title":{"rendered":"Books (Manga): The Legendary Fossil by Abyu, Besi, Chung Jong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/legendaryfossil.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/legendaryfossil.png 900w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/legendaryfossil-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/legendaryfossil-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Legendary Fossil<br><\/strong>by ABYU, BESI, CHUNG JONG<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tappytoon.com\/en\/book\/the-legendary-fossil\">published in English by Tappytoon<\/a> (80 chapters &#8211; complete)<br>2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the story of a warrior&#8230; going back to high school!  Ashleigh Lute was tasked with a quest by the emperor, but once she completed it, the authorities wouldn&#8217;t allow her to admit that SHE was the one who killed the Demon King of the north.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Worse yet, while she was away for three years on her heroic quest with fellow adventurers, she missed three years of school &#8211; and now must complete her education, mingling with (UGH!) YOUNGER PEOPLE.  Ash feels like, yes, a fossil, and can&#8217;t even really tell them why she was gone.  Or how she became such a strong swordswoman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/legendaryfossilcharacters-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/legendaryfossilcharacters-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/legendaryfossilcharacters-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/legendaryfossilcharacters-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/legendaryfossilcharacters-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/legendaryfossilcharacters-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/legendaryfossilcharacters-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/legendaryfossilcharacters.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Ashleigh Lute, the warrior heroine of the story who knows her way around a sword (two images); plus a quiet guy she is fond of<\/em> from The Legendary Fossil, published by Tappytoon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Typical for the Korean manga I&#8217;ve read, many of the characters have traumatic backstories they are trying to overcome: dead parents, abusive parents, murdered siblings, switched birth orders, sibling rivalries, and (oh yes!) MAGICALLY CURSED ITEMS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The characters are cute, and the artists like to either remove facial features entirely in some scenes or have transparent versions of the characters&#8217; eyes showing through their hair, which is kind of neat (see first character illustration &#8211; the characters all have softly draped hair in their eyes).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last twenty (?) or so chapters introduced new characters and intrigue.  The story had been more straightforward in a talk-to-the-sword way, but became more political. To my relief, the story still achieved a sword-centered ending.  I was relieved that a betrayal I anticipated did not come to pass.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recommended if you like: talented women with swords &amp; secrets at school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Legendary Fossilby ABYU, BESI, CHUNG JONGpublished in English by Tappytoon (80 chapters &#8211; complete)2023 This is the story of a warrior&#8230; going back to high school! Ashleigh Lute was tasked with a quest by the emperor, but once she completed it, the authorities wouldn&#8217;t allow her to admit that SHE was the one who &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/03\/17\/books-manga-the-legendary-fossi-by-abyu-besi-chung-jong\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Books (Manga): The Legendary Fossil by Abyu, Besi, Chung Jong&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[128,265],"class_list":["post-2412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-manga","tag-manhwa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2412"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2423,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions\/2423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}