Reviews of The Way of the Sword (BL)
The Way of the Sword (BL)
Take_the_Moon
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Title: The Path of the Sword Suitable age: 18+ Genre: Eastern Fantasy Content: Yaio, *** between men, romance, adventure and friendship. Chapters: +100 ย Hello, people here is the author, this is my second BL story, I sincerely hope you like it. These two weeks I will dedicate myself exclusively to this story because I want to win the prize, then it will be daily posts. Support me and go read the other BL story! Xoxo
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Overall, the story itself was good. The world-building was very in depth and thorough. It weaved nicely with the plot at the beginning. The character interactions were also interesting to read. However, with good things, there are always bad things. The writing could use more editing and proofreading. There were several cases of awkward wording and redundancy. Some sentences were very lengthy and the grammar could be improved. The one thing I want to point out are the commas; there are too much of them! For example: (SPOILER-ish) "This happened hundreds of years ago, now all the heroes are already dead and humanity does not even remember them, only the sects keep the teachings of the heroes, but now a new war if the next, so the sects are hunting talents in all the lands from the great imperial capital to the most humble of the villages, the sects are also not distinguishing status, from an important prince to a poor beggar for participating in the selection of the sect." This is all one sentence, connected by many, many commas. Several of these clauses could be separated by periods to complete a whole thought instead. However, the author did mention that he/she has not edited some of the chapters, so I'm sure it will be fixed soon. Other than this, the story itself is pretty good. Keep writing, author-san!
The main character Song Yan is depicted quite nicely. The starting pace is a bit slow so that might cause some people to lose interest. But you need to stick through as the story moves at a gentle pace. The research work done for writing the part is good. But they're are to many details sometimes and it is easy to forget. So maybe you can introduce some detail in one chapter and few stuff related to it rather than giving all the details at once. But overall as the genre is quite different and the ground work is extremely good, I will give it full points for innovative thinking. Keep up the good work author. ๐
What I like about the novel was that the chapters were long and very well arranged felt like some typical chinese drama with a lot more details. I liked that. Just that there were some glitches here and there that broke the flow a bit but since I like such fantasies and stuffs I read it anyway. One more thing, since the chapters are long, if read on a mobile, it gets tiring and long paras in the initial chapters makes it confusing at times. Work on that. Over all I liked the novel and those who like fantasies and fights, can definitely give it go. Keep it up author.
