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These end of chapter musings. I see this in novels all the time. Where an author leaves their notes in but tries sell it like a cliffhanger from Rocky and Bullwinkle. The difference between these spoilers and Rocky and Bullwinkle are that most novels forget all of these promises. Even though the narrator spoiled the future, I have heavy doubts.
The reading experience would improve greatly if the author ran a script on the text that deleted every sentence/paragraph that wasn't in quotations that ended in a question mark, ended in an exclamation point or started with the word "Yes". There's the usual stuff that you should expect from something on WN like missing prepositions but filtering out useless (word padding) rhetorical questions etc would go a long way. 5 stars for stability of updates because I didn't bother to look at the update history. 3 for story development because it's mostly just been describing simple things like walking and seeing with little interaction. Without much interaction with the world around the MC it's hard to get a handle on character design, so 3 again. Background seems okay, kind of useless transmigration from a world building perspective though since it's basically low tech to high tech + magic (still using paper money though). We haven't seen the advantage of transmigration other than the story not having to bother with a child being a child.
You're not wrong. She's such an empty cancer to this entire story while providing no value to the experience. They don't have a relationship: the vast majority of their "conversations" is Sunny talking in his head and Nephis staring blankly into space. She doesn't fit symbolically... a star doesn't cast shade, the object in front of the star does. She is going to break the system as all good Narutos do while Sunny will shadow her. Such a bore really but could have been great. Oh well, still one of the best on webnovel.
It'd be more fun if these dead characters caught up and were useful. Dead weight characters that just disappear aren't really much better. I'm seriously tired of these stories that read like single player RPG games made for exclusive Sony/Nintendo contracts.
You should start from the beginning and edit towards where you are now. like OP said, the first handful of chapters matter so much—possibly more than any other chapter. I'm only continuing to give this a chance because it seems like you care about improving and that shows some amount of sincerity. Everyone who drops your novel before it gets edited though is an opportunity lost.
I legit scrolled down to see if the entire novel was in 1st person. Thanks for putting that author note in. Also, an easy grammar update would be to just look for capitalized letters mid-sentence. There's only a handful of cases in which you would have mid-sentence capitals: the pronoun 'I' and the beginning of a question that's embedded in a sentence.