To the credit of the author, the writing itself is of the stronger showings in the app catalogue. The world itself and the power systems involved felt quite fleshed out. You can tell a lot of thought and effort went into creating both world as well as story. Many of the side characters and villains are well thought. With growth or motives that you can see and feel. The real issue comes in the form of the MC. The author labels him, in the synopsis, as cynical and damaged but promises growth. The issue is that there is no growth. The MC does have a relatively tragic past and it would definitely affect anyone but the level that it is overplayed in the novel, along with the flippant shifts MC makes, drags the story down tremendously. I could understand if the duality was used as a show of conflict for development. However, despite being often portrayed as clever and flexible, he never tries to wrestle his past. You don’t expect the MC to be a saint but he continually hinders himself in his self righteous thinking before someone else leads him down the right path, either in word or by suffering in his place. He then turns around repeats the “woe is me, maybe I should die” shtick, seems to make progress then regresses. Once or twice is fine but at this point I sense a bland, recurring pattern. Truly a shame for a novel that has so depth and promised character growth.

He was the student the instructornwas talking to, and excited about, earlier at the track event.

Even if it’s a Western setting people do have their cultural norms still. I always like it more when scenarios are diverse like that personally.

Your pfp matches the comment very well. I can Definitely see you really live your fantasies through peoples cringey harem trope novels.

Could be one of those situations where it’s only possible on things much weaker or with very low willpower/intelligence.

It’s typically most efficient to do it through a major artery. Faster flow means less time for clotting and rigor mortis.

People want him to use a bow instead but aren’t taking into account many variables. He has no training and would also need a ton of arrows, for practice as well as the long term. On top of that, what will the bow do if he doesn’t incapacitate the beast in the first one or two shots? (Which is very likely as he has zero training.)

Well you could have just dropped it without writing about it. As soon as you make your opinion public you’re open to being critiqued. 🤷🏽‍♂️

I should know by now that comments are useless. I randomly check them just to see if someone has some insight on something I may have missed but it’s a bunch of “idiot” spam. The real idiots are people that measure the MC from their own perspective. He’s sixteen yes, but he’s literally a bottom of the barrel existence even among the other poor folk. He’s as wary as he can be in his ignorance of the world. The only truly dumb choice is selling the box, knowing the pills came with it. For everything else though, he isn’t a privileged reader from a first world country with mandated education, access to the internet and an omniscient third person perspective.

You just called out three other regions for being warmongers and said don’t be racist?

It would make sense logically right? The brain develops even into the late twenties so he never really got all the way there in either life, and its a wholly new body. Plus there are dIfferent “smarts.” I think everyone has a friend with book smarts but terrible common sense or social cues lol.

These were my exact thoughts. I put up with a ton of the minor inconsistencies for a while but eventually they break you. I stopped around chapter 80 when he decides its all just a game and gets cheat codes because he disregards everything? Pretty terrible random plot device to add after emphasizing again and again how the game world might be important to the Real world.