I May Be a Guild Receptionist, but I'll Solo Any Boss to Clock Out on Time, Vol. 2: The relatability of this series is genuinely concerning. I appreciate that the main characters are actually trying to grow and change in response to the events of volume 1, which should be something obvious but I guess I don't see very consistently in light novels.

At first I was going to say this wasn't as strong as volume 1, but as I think about it there are alot of little nuances that hang with me a bit. Little character moments that in most books would be normal, or even clichés, but here they indicate different frustrations of work life. Have you ever been praised for working hard and well at work and thought "I don't need praise, I need help?" Have you ever tried to improve at something to cover someone who's struggling, but you need to go back to them anyways because you can't get good enough fast enough? Hell, I'm currently trying to get my work in order to avoid overtime popping up mid-summer like the last couple of years, which is basically Alina for the first half of the book.

It's not exactly a brilliant series, it's primarily goofy fun, but it actually seems to reflect and understand the working life in a way that the generic died-from-overwork series don't.