Reviews of 48 Hours a Day
48 Hours a Day
Little Bleary Zhao
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The theme of teleporting into separate game instances to complete dungeons and then going back into reality have already been explored on multiple occasions by other webnovels. What makes this novel different is the existence of a cheat the MC has that dramatically extends the amount of time he has in both the real world and during the game instances to complete the mission. This fact makes the MC seem more human and less like a super powered genetic warrior who gets a SSS+ rating on everything by virtue of being amazing at everything he does. While this MC becomes good at everything he does, he has a valid reason in being good because he simply spends more time learning. If I’m going to be nitpicky about this sub genre, I’d say that the amount of stats and skills flying around are confusing and produce a lot of clutter. This novel doesn’t have this issue and is very clean with presentation of stats while not removing necessary details. Looking forward to more updates!
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An amazing piece of work. Hope it'll be continued. At first, it seems very meh. I almost dropped it! So glad I kept reading since I'm sold after the first game. Like the title says, MC gets double the amount of time every day compared to everyone else. Then he got recruited into this mysterious game that takes place every month. He got no other cheats except for the fact that he got way more time to complete the games than the rest of the players. The setting is very realistic. MC learned different skills through sweat and blood. There's no instant cast scroll here. This way, we get to see him grow as a character. Each game arc feels like a mini story of it's own. It's not just there for MC to complete his tasks. This is what made the novel interesting. I recommend reading until the end of the first game arc to decide if the novel is worth reading to you. For me, it certainly is. Right now, there's no romance. And I like it that way. Normally, I drop the novel once the cringy romance kicks in. But from the author's portrayal of female characters here, I might not mind if the female lead is who I think she is. Still, I'd rather it has no romance. Probably not gonna happen though...
Its been so long since I found a novel in which there is nothing to criticise about, And Damn I was so happy that the author didn’t go making Japan the villain and all that bull****. Its great How just as much as the cheat helps him it also causes him more danger. The cheat concept is great. The game concept is great. Reminds me of Devils Cage with cheats. The gaming worlds have been perfect with lot of varieties.. The Mc doesn’t have any bad tendencies other than not having too much material ambition.
I don’t know why the trash currently in the next works section is prioritized over this novel. It frustrates me that 9/10 novels translated by Webnovel are garbage. It’s not like there’s a small supply of good reads to be translated. On to this story, it’s very well done. Well developed plot, characters, and mystery. The mc isn’t brain dead or dense, and the interactions between characters make sense. The author put a lot of thought into his story, and the translators did a good job at carrying this over to English.
This novel has its uniqueness. Somehow the author realized the world existed many countries, not just China and its enemies. So we get to see many nationalities showcased in the story, which is a fresh break from typical Chinese webnovel. The author also hints that his worldbulding will encompass myhtology at the global scale. Which makes 48 hours an intriguing story at first glance. But the story also has flaws similar to other Chinese webnovels. It suffers from using series of coincidences to push the plot, woodblocked character designs, and predictable story flow. Coupled with appaling translation (One of the worst I've seen from years of reading in Qidian. Seriously, a machine translation might be better), so to sum it, this is a very frustarting novel to read. Yet all of these flaws can be overlook if the writing is done well. Alas I have to say it isn't. It's an unpolished novel, filled with impropable details that disrupted the reading experience. But the real issue that makes me drop the novel is that apart from the desert island, the subsequent arcs and intermissions are too boring. I tried hard to read Tokyo Drift (At the end I just skim the arc) to reach the third arc, but I couldn't stand the dull writing anymore. TLDR, It has nice concept, but the writing and translation are subpar.
Dropped at chapter 56 and 57 Casual racism is somewhat worse than open types. Can't help but feel this is something indoctrinated from birth or society? I could push on with the story, but why would I follow up with a story that makes my race out to be some kind of vile people? Might as well look for something better to read or do.
Even though the story at first seems quite interesting, the lack of any coherent plot or character motivation harms this story quite badly. When the main character first gets his power the author chooses to simply time skip all the parts where the main character figures out how it works and instead just gives us a two sentence description. This is an ongoing issue with the novel, unlike other chinese novels where the author repeats the same thing 10 times in a chapter, this author chooses to just ignore tons of major issues that would have let him develop his world and characters more. The lack of a plot is no big deal because from the looks of it we just have yet to get to that part in the 60 chapters so I can over look that part for now, but now I will complain about some more detailed parts of the story, minor spoilers ahead. The first game the MC is thrown into is surviving on a deserted island for a year and a half, mostly by himself. At first he has an NPC to teach him the basics of survival, but shortly after he dies and the MC is on his own. The entire team the author simply skims through what happens, ignoring all of the difficulties the MC has to deal with such as how he managed to build all of the things he has, or the MAJOR fact he is ALONE for a YEAR AND A HALF. No, instead the author spends the entire novel time skipping past all the "boring" stuff choosing instead to only show the "fun and interesting" combat scenarios. The deserted island can be summed up into a few sentences, - I learned how to build a fully self sufficient plot of land on a deserted island during the time skip. Detailed combat description. I spent the rest of the time living on the island with no difficulties~ - Once he returns to the real world you still know next to nothing about the main character, nothing about his motivations, his goals, how the island affected him (which besides learning new skills, it didn't at all). Instead it skips to the next game and does the same thing, skips past all the world building, all the character development gets thrown out the window, story is still non existent, but we get detailed combat scenarios, wow so great! Thats not to say the other characters are as flat as the main character, some of them are great, its just the main character is flat and boring. TL;DR The main character is flat and boring, lacks motivation, doesn't even care about what is going on. There is no character development for the main character, and any memorable side characters are quickly forgotten. The story is non existent so far besides the mystery of what is going on, but the main character completely ignores that mystery anyway. Interesting premise, terrible execution.
i just want to tell u how a really high level concept can be doomed by greed and stupidity this novel is the prime example of that only like the author had said goodbye to the main world storyline just because the side story became a real success which has quite bit stolen from the real history so if u know that stuff its gonna bore u then he has dragged it for no apparent reason to more than 200 chaps like the previous story didn't even given get 10 chaps and suddenly out of nowhere there 200 chaps in your face and you will wait for it ton end but it will go on and go in like sh#t these small stories were suppose to be short challenges and real world was suppose be the true stage but no its easy make a fake story based on history and folklore than to write a new one . like i had it enough i use to like this book a lot but now ...
Honestly, I've read some pretty bad novels on this website. Novels that are translated so poorly that they look like a third graders macaroni art work. Novels that are basically just one continuous power-trip after another. Novels where the plot flows almost as smoothly as the surface of the moon. Novels that make mistakes in whether they're first or third person perspective, sometimes even switching back and forth to multiple. This novel however, wow. I don't think I've ever read a novel that is literally proud of how often it breaks the fourth wall. That's right ladies and gentlemen, this novel is proud of the fact it breaks the fourth wall. Or rather, the author is proud of it. I got through one chapter, and on the very second chapter, the author decides "I should start talking directly to the reader because that's not gonna ruin immersion at all". Oh but that's not all, it's not just the author talking directly to the reader to break immersion. The author, in their infinite wisdom, thought it was a good idea to not only talk directly to the reader breaking immersion, but they also decided to do it while TALKING DOWN TO THEM.
