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It's not bad but it is very very AU. It's like the Naruto universe was just altogether downgraded from high fantasy to low to mid. It's not really a problem, but it can be a bit jarring of you're familiar with canon. Seeing Hashirama going toe to toe with the 4th Raikage is genuinely bizarre though. That would be an utter curbstomp. All of their techniques on both sides are just really underwhelming as well. MC also has issues in power scaling. He basically gets an insane power up compared to canon, adjusts to the added power, and then achieves the same result as canon in the next fight.

The pacing is really, really bad. The plot moves at a breakneck pace only to jump directly into timeskips. Battle scenes are particularly bad as there's absolutely no consistency of any character's strength so fights are entirely random. MC is shown to have learned quite a lot of sealing and some ninjutsu but no techniques are named and his setups of seals are never described so it appears all his seals pop out of nowhere. Side characters don't really have any depth and act like their canon counterparts, ignoring that the story takes place decades prior. MC getting Kurama is positively stupid, not for the fact that it happened but everything surrounding it. The sealing is done somehow on the mental plane by MC with Mito standing by. The whole plot is supposed to be secret yet MC as a well-known genius disappears off the face of the earth into enforced seclusion, which might as well be announcing that Mito died to everyone. Very stupid. Then to top it all off, Danzo tries to use some sort of curse seal on MC directly in front of the hokage and elders and absolutely nothing happens to him. Then Danzo does so again at MC's house while also murdering several Anbu and leaving behind copious amounts of evidence it was him. For this, Danzo has Root reassigned to another Anbu but nothing visible to MC. Like I know a lot of fanfics have Danzo do some outrageous things and Sarutobi doing nothing about it but this is absurd. The homage is also supposed to be MC's teacher and apparently Danzo trying to subvert both a strategic war asset and the hokage's student in one person gets a slap on the wrist? Really?

There are way too many reviews on here that misread the MC's character entirely. Calling the MC a beta or spineless for his actions in the first 150 or so chapters is asinine in the extreme. His entire goal after summoning is to get the fuck out of the world of Familiar of Zero because honestly it sucks. In the process of doing so, he literally goes on several murderous rampages to facilitate that. He has terrible luck a few times in the process and honestly didn't make 100% optimal decisions but the decisions he took were realistic. He was a regular ass dude who got thrown into a war full of super-powered people. Regardless of how fast he can grow stronger, the odds of him having a bad turn were very high.

It wasn't as much an issue before but I think Voldy's forces are estimated way too highly in the latest arc in terms of numbers. Quinn personally knocked off 100+ actual death eaters plus the few dozen snatchers as well. In canon terms that might legitimately be Voldy's entire army. He was always a terrorist, not an insurgent. He was just quite effective. The counter forces always being behind on numbers seems far fetched.

Honestly most of my issues with the book are in two categories: bad characterization and unrealistic worldbuilding. Pretty much every character in the novel has at least one or two mental breakdowns each year. Characters get immensely angry at each other for practically no reason basically every chapter. But by far the largest issue is how the book deals with murder. Almost all main characters treat murdering literally anyone as if it's literally the end of the world even if the victim is completely and utterly irredeemable. The worldbuilding is mainly a problem because this is fanfiction and there are some established facts. Wizarding England is not the sole wizarding community and it gets treated like it is even in scenarios where it ABSOLUTELY would not. Similarly the political structure within the British community is unbelievably mischaracterized. How things shake out in certain scenarios within the novel are so incredibly far-fetched as to be ridiculous. For last, there is one plot hole within the novel that it quite literally may be the size of the moon. For the first several years at Hogwarts, the threat to students and Rose's friends lives are what prevents Rose from taking action. Sylvia can just mess with people's memories to render it unnoticeable when people are at Hogwarts. So during the third year when quite literally everyone left the castle save Dumbledore why didn't Rose take action? Or during summers when students must leave and most professors do as well?

The first 18 chapters (where I gave up) are so tropey it defies reason. MC being bullied for no particular reason, arrogant young masters, an auction, a random tournament that served no purpose, and multiple cold jade beauties. All within the first 18 chapters, with most before that.

Awful. I've read the author's other book Digging to Survive which actually isn't that bad. The characters in this novel are nonsensical. A highly talented musician and another talented chef fail to get into conventional colleges and so they apply to a magic school? Is the author unaware of culinary schools or music conservatories? This is entirely glossing over the MC who does basically nothing and has no personality.

One of the worst novels on the entire site, including mary-sue fanfics. Yes, that bad. The pacing makes absolutely no sense and defies all logic. Go ahead and read it if you want. If you make it past 10 chapters that's honestly an accomplishment.

I cannot express just how godawful this book is and how much it disappoints me. The premise of the novel is just fine, a blacksmith who gets stronger every time they forge something and can gain special abilities depending on special materials. Neat. I can see a low key hidden boss type character story coming out of this. One of many problems is that the author has the worst pacing I think I've ever come across, bar none. Just extending out the events of the first 10 chapters over 2 months instead of 3 days would make everything so much better. Worldbuilding and characterization are also trash. The MC apparently lives in a city with a lord ruling it, with an arrogant young master son. This son of course is in love with MC's girlfriend, who he has been in a relationship with for several years. Approximately 9 seconds after MC gets his cheat, this relationship is now a problem to arrogant young master and so he takes men there to casually murder MC, as one does of course. This fails due to MC being MC and powering up enough to beat up a dozen men over the course of 3 days. Ignore the fact that MC until this point never fought anyone and uses magic and martial arts that both the reader and MC himself don't know he knows. Do not read this unless author goes back maybe 5 years later and scraps the whole thing to write it again. This is just a review up to chapter 12 or so. Couldn't even make it through the free stuff.