Reviews of Summoner Sovereign
Summoner Sovereign
Tomoyuki
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I read upto 7 chapters until now. But in that short amount of content, I found several things that ruined my reading experience of this story. They are A) the adopted father that teaches the Mc summoning magic. The method of teaching is 'stubborn teacher(with low IQ and efficiency) teaching a naive student' cliche. B) it took him 1 whole year and 99 defeats to realize that he needs to summon weaker monsters to shorten the summoning time (this type clichéd shounen story rubbish that ruins my reading experience of fantasy stories). C) a girl in their school invites him to join their society/club despite knowing that it might cause him more troubles and her over-reacting arrogant club-mate objecting to on his invitation exaggerating manner (clichéd manner, that too in library). Stubborn/stuck cup teacher, naive shounen Japanese type Mc, trouble bringing supporting characters and arrogant side characters. These are clichéd plot points that ruins a stories these days and all these are present in first 7 chapters of this novel. (Maybe I read to many Japanese stories developed a revulsion to them.)
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I haven't read the book but the reviews are chaotic. Im sorry author. i can see that you cared for the book and feel hurt when someone insults your creation, I feel you. Dumb readers everywhere. Same with the authors. I honestly like that you reply to people. It shows that you keep up to date on everyone's comments. It's okay to reply back, don't ignore them but its better to be more careful and professional with words. Hope you have a comeback and return with a better book (cuz based from the reviews, they do not like it) Good Luck to you author. It's hard being an author right? They don't see ththe endurance, effort and creativity of the mind to formulate plots, make up characters and create the word.Again, Good Luck. P. S. I decided to read a few chapters of this book to see what's the fuss all about but only a few chapters cuz I can't stand being in a novel full of toxic comments. Not your fault. Also The 5 stars are for the next novel you create, hope it turns out good. Would love to read a book from an author with your kind of principles.
VERY emotional, VERY confrontational, VERY insecure author who will repeatedly tell you to go read something else whenever you point out something you don't like in the comments. Very well then, i will go read other, better stories with more stable authors. At the very least i will not review bomb this story, as there were moments i genuinely enjoyed (such as the first time phoenix was summoned) but i came to dislike the flow of events. Truthfully my interactions with the author were just icing on the cake.
I am done with this ****, the mc never retaliates, never. “Oh I’m just a lazy mc” Stfu Sure, he saves people and helps them, but never gets revenge on people. Everyone thinks he’s trash, even though there’s literal video evidence of him destroying pieces of ****. “Oh this is because strength doesn’t decide everything” This is where strength matters the most. Like no one has brain except for the mc and his acquaintances, a summoner would be perfect for team battles, but nooo, you gotta prove yourself in individual battles. Buncha dumfuks.
I tried my hardest to keep on reading this story, but I just can't continue. All the author does it make comments about what happen to him at the website he release his story originally and not the story. I have left a few comments on some of the chapters, they weren't rude or over the top, just some thought on it. The author responded, instead giving a normal response to my comment, he told me to stop reading it, he was very defensive. I can understand from his story and comments response, he did not have a great time where he first release his story. People over their was beyond rude and would make anyone very upset, but my comments where nothing like that. Author if you spent more time on writing your story, ignored really hateful people, your stories would be better, but you seem that you like to bathe in those comments and never let it go. I hope in the future you can get past your experience before you came to Webnovel and be able to write great stories.
Its a pretty average story loaded with tons of references to other authors work. The author does say this him/her self in the comments of nearly each chapter. Which I can only give him/her Big praise for. The biggest Problem i have with it is that these tropes and refernces are just stacked behind each other without much strings between. It read like Multiple storys after each other without fleshing out of any Charakter. Maybe sometime I'll force my self to understand the plot but as of now I am dropping the story At the 30iest chapter Mark. Yours sincrrely,
Okay. Okay. Okay. Just a little over 150 chaps. This novel is great, the author has a superb ability to write. His/her description of fight scenes, the wider world and even character interactions are vivid and inviting. The MC is powerful but still very much human, he isn't infallible and invincible which the author clearly underlines was his intention. Typically, I'm in summoning novels for the OPness but the author has devised a story captivating enough for me to read and enjoy without OPness in the way I'm used to. For all the above, Kudos to the author. It seems the author intended to subvert cliche tropes of typical webnovels, japanese or otherwise, and the work does exactly that... but not much else. It doesn't even do that all the time. For example, it is a well known trope in japanese web novels, for a beautiful girl or heroine to have a fondness for the MC for no apparent reason other than the fact that he is the MC and then for the MC to not know what to do with the affection. In this novel, the MC knows what to do, but the fact that the beautiful girl has an inexplicable soft spot for MC from the start of the novel in the first place means that the story perpetuates the trope it is trying to subvert. Most side characters don't get enough screen time that we understand why they are the way they are and their own background. Their unique quirks, likes, upbringing and character flaws are not aired out enough to allow any nuance beyond the basic. This translates to stereotypical side characters which seem to defeat the novel's commentary on WN. We have the person that hates MC for no real reason, babe that likes MC for no real reason, there is even a female in the first few chapters who tries to go out with MC because he beat her in a duel. Ridiculous. The MC's character is so bland I wouldn't be able to pick him out in a line-up. We don't see him experimenting with his abilities which is a great shame because his powers are based on his imagination. He can summon anything he creates (draws and specifies, I think) so the process of creating something to summon would be a unique experience this novel could have capitalised on. Instead, he seems to show up with a new power every time there is a fight and then says it was created after the fact. The lack of imagination for the MC's summon ability shocks me. The author limits the summoning to only constellations and within that, it is either some basic animal or a weapon. And all the destructive weapons are effectively nukes. There could have been more series of summons based on MC's first life on earth. Greek mythology, Egyptian, heck even Lovecraftian and monsters from games, there is so much the author could have drawn from, but they didn't. So though the summons are good, it is hard to see MC's power as anything other than wasted potential. Even with the above, this story would still be a solid 4- 4.3, that is just how great author's writing is. However, the author uses the MC and the wider story as a vehicle for venting frustrations at WN culture. They do this through frequent fourth wall breaks and whilst this is good for cracking jokes, touching on serious issues such as online bullying and even the occasional satire to drive the novel's parody element home, it is so frequent that it feels less like a positive contribution to the story and to us as readers and more like the author whining, b*tching or ranting about the experiences that they have had online. I I know how bad readers and users of these platforms can be. It seems the author has personally experienced these horrors. That is terrible and I offer my deepest condolences. However, this is not the right platform to address those issues. This really holds this novel back, it damages the sense of immersion and is equivalent to hijacking the story for Author's agenda. Even when readers console the author, he goes and does it again. This repetitive cycle only served to destroy this novel's potential.
I didn't read the novel but I find it sad that you have stopped writing novels because of haters. I know it's difficult to ignore their insults and bad comments, but I feel like you shouldn't stop doing your passion just because of others. I, myself, write a story for fun and the only reason I post on this platform is to share it with the world and improve my writing skill from their feedback. So what if people don't like it? Are you writing novels for others or for yourself? You say that your story is 'trash' but as the saying goes, practice makes perfect. When Ronaldo was born, was he already as skilled as he is now?
