I dont know about the author affecting his rating by creating alt accounts. if thats true, its pretty scummy. His story on the other hand is also pretty scummy.
The quality of the writing is not bad, i can understand whats going on even with the weird time jumps. The problem for me is that i just cant get behind the underlying meaning and essence of this story.
The author's writing comes across the page like a child trying to write like an ***** to justify that he understands existentialism, with banal prose about an unjust universe.
The main character is evil, and doesnt really have any sort of weight or qualms about it. He goes from normal all his life to murder without any character justification. Being evil and mc is fine, there are a bunch of those and I have no problem with it. Yet, this novel really makes being evil so uninteresting.
The MCs main conviction is that the world owes him something. What?!
His life is of someone being pampered and rich with no real suffering. Yet, it sucks cause he is so untalented and its unfair. BooHoo, whine, whine, whine. Its also really annoying to read, that this whiny child then gets a chance to change his life with help from a god like being. So does the character learn anything, strive for anything, or go out there and try to be better. The short anwser is no. He arrives in a land of magic which is almost identical to his own world, but there is magic. Is it difficult for him in any sense to navigate this new world? Nope. Is there any problem with him trying to get magical powers. HaHa..., no. He has money, logistics, and manpower rightoff the bat. To then literally discover how magic is created in humans after sacrificing vagrants and the homeless. I would also like to mention that he was given some weird ethereal power for guessing things, and then he would be provided a either hot or cold response by better google.
He doesnt earn anything and is given everything on silver platter. He is unapologetic with his whining about how he is special when a god like being tells him he isnt. He is just the worst.
if you like that sorta thing, this is your novel. i couldnt make it that far in. if the novel progresses in a way later down the line to play on those themes and maybe have some character growth. thats awesome. Im just not down to go on that ride.
