Thoughts on Spice and Wolf Volume 1

As I said earlier, I wanted to try new and different things in literature. Reading the same types of books over and over gets boring. So, I decided to try to read a comic book and I enjoyed it. Now I continued that experimentation with trying a new type of book. I decided to read a Japanese light novel called Spice and Wolf. The book is about a traveling merchant named Craft Lawrence. Lawrence feels alone when trading. One day at night Lawrence discovers a girl is sleeping in his wagon. But he finds that she is not normal and has wolf ears and a tail. She goes by the name of Holo the Wise Wolf. She is a wolf god in human form, she can morph into a giant wolf. But, Holo needs to travel north to a town called Yoitsu, her hometown. The series is the story of Holo and Lawrence's journey to Yoitsu. 

I enjoyed the book much more than I thought I would. Some people would consider this book a romance(in reality it has less romance than the Percy Jackson Series), but I would consider it to be an adventure and comedy book. Since Lawrence is a merchant, the book has several pages explaining medieval economics and trading. It focuses also on character development and really sets up Lawrence and Holo as dynamic characters and how they change throughout the book. I would highly recommend this book if you want to try something new or if you are taking Ap microeconomics(No I am being serious). The suspense will keep you going.