The Encounter of Marielle Clarac (web novel)
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As some may know, JNC's series the Tales of Marielle Clarac was originally a web novel at Syosetu. Only the first arc of the first book is still available there, while the rest are side stories.
One side story is as long as a volume, though. The title is The Encounter of Marielle Clarac (マリエル・クララックの邂逅), is a prequel about how Marielle became a novelist and mostly told from the POV of her editor, Paul Satie.
I couldn't find the exact post but IIRC the author, Haruka Momo, wrote how it probably won't get published because the main character is a different person, and even though both Marielle and Simeon appear, they didn't meet even once (lol). Characters from the main story that appear are: Marielle, Simeon, Paul himself, Natalie, Poisson, Julienne, and the Flaubert family minus Adrien. I found it enjoyable even though I MTLed it, but MTL is really good these days, I think I understood more than 70% without an issue.
Would anyone be interested if I post summaries here, and is it allowed in the forum?
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Links to chapter summaries - 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 -
@nofairytale said in The Encounter of Marielle Clarac (web novel):
Would anyone be interested if I post summaries here, and is it allowed in the forum?
If you are summarizing your thoughts on the WN I do not see anything wrong with that.
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@Rahul-Balaggan said in The Encounter of Marielle Clarac (web novel):
If you are summarizing your thoughts on the WN I do not see anything wrong with that.
What about summarizing the chapters itself?
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@nofairytale A little late... but thanks for sharing :)
I am interested, but seems there is no one else.
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@nanahuatzin said in The Encounter of Marielle Clarac (web novel):
@nofairytale A little late... but thanks for sharing :)I am interested, but seems there is no one else.
I am interested to though late to the party
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@lily-garden said in The Encounter of Marielle Clarac (web novel):
@nanahuatzin said in The Encounter of Marielle Clarac (web novel):
@nofairytale A little late... but thanks for sharing :)I am interested, but seems there is no one else.
I am interested to though late to the party
Same here...9 months ago I'd not discovered my love of fanboying over these goobers.
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@nofairytale Ooh the plot thickens! I can't wait to see what happens next!
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Our main couple meet... or not. Also, the beginning of a background romance (see Matchmaking).
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
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@nofairytale I love some background romance. Thanks again for these
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@nofairytale These are fantastic, thanks again for writing them up.
Her getting her (in)famous pen and notebook as a debut present is just perfect, btw.
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@nofairytale I love how even in this brief cameo Noel is such a little gremlin 😊
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@nofairytale Thank you for sharing this. REALLY. I would not been able to experience it otherwise. So thank you for sharing this wonderful side story 🤗🤗🤗👏👏🎉🎉🎆🎆🍾🥂
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@lily-garden No worries! I love being able to share it too, especially since it may not be published.
Anyway, on my nth read of this I just realized that the timeline between Paul pov and Simeon pov are a bit wonky. After the city chase, it's 2 days until Paul meet Marielle again, then after that Paul went to get Milene's approval to publish, and do a whole lot of things until the book is ready to sell. It probably would take weeks. I don't believe it took that long for Poisson to meet Simeon again and laugh at him about the "mission", lol.
Love what a good kid Marielle is. This prequel is reinforcing that her self-deprecation isn't how people would see her objectively though. From the pov of a commoner, she still counts as rich and privileged. And her grandfather being the chancellor in a university where Simeon's father probably works at means her social connection to the Flauberts is not as distant as she thought.
