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The novel is bland, lacks any effort and brainless. The story introduced the tower as appearing half a year post the apocalypse. Then in later chapters, it is introduced that the mc broke a record that has not been broken for 100 of years. Then in another, awakened suddenly called cultivator. All the hundreds of inconsistencies and plot holes aside, the mc has no personality or character. Be just moves with the flow, getting skills and showing them to the reader. He bareky uses his brain to try and experiment. It feels author sat down and wrote whatever came to his mind then published it. This is a first draft. Not a novel to be published. Potential of the story's worldbuilding: 7/10 Story rating : 1/10
Man this story sure is brainless and disrespectful reader intelligence by glossing over many obvious things, yet the mc never think of them
This is possibly the most dull, uninteresting, bland and boring cultivation novel I have ever read. The mc gets stronger with time, slowly, yet he is always at the botton of the food chain. Has the behavior of an extreme timid beta. His cultivation is irrelevant because he remains acting like a weakling. Fact is, his personality and mentality are of one, he isnt acting but is one. The rest of the story is dull and bland. Nothing is going on. The mc has no goal and it is the same thing over and over. Dont be fooled by the clickbait title and synopsis either. A story without a goal. This is what this one is. A story without a goal, without an ambition or objective to where it wants to to is NOT a story. It is an idea. The mc had no goals. No dreams. No motivation. No personality. No character. Nothing. Watching a gold fish documentary is more interesting. 1/10.
Yep. Couldn't make it past chapter 4. This story is very brainless. Sorry for the harsh words but the amount of efforts put into the writing quality and the plot is simply ridiculous. If this was submitted as an essay at middle school or high school, author would (and im sorry to say this) spectacularly failed. The characters are below 1D. And the quality of writing put into realizing the story itself is just below the minimum. This looks like a first draft rather than a published novel. The protagonist actions, especially adopting a street girl and boy out of nowhere as his royal siblings with no background checks whatsoever was just stupid. Furthermore, the dialogue quality is nonexistent. The dialogue was the tipping point. It is not a dialogue. It merely is cliche lines stitched together and presented to the reader. Promptly followed by an over-exagerated reaction by anyone if it involves the protagonist. I apologize. I felt my "status" as a reader disrespected while reading this. Who knows? Maybe it tot better after x chapters? But that is just excuses. The first chapters are most important after all and the lack of polish or bare minimum quality effort put into them speaks volumes. Why would you enter a shop, one that may have luxury goods, if it had the front of a slums' house? Do not judge a book by its cover... but covers exist for a reason. And the first chapters of a novel are its most important cover. Trash novels exist elsewhere, why are you targeting this? Because I was hooked by the synopsis, read it some and gave a review. You may dislike my review, but it is mine nonetheless. Thank you. 2/10
Read upto 24 chapters. As such this will be a feedback review. The story, while promising in its worldbuilding and plot is diminished in quality due to the writing style. It is fine to have a theatrical-like description of somethint which takes a paragraph or two. However, dear author, the entire story is just theatrical descriptions. More than half the first chapter is a theatrical, almost melodramatic, description of the protagonist standing in his room. Every other action, or inaction, by the protagonist is conveyed through that same over exagerated description which takes at least a paragraph. As such, 24 chapters could have easily been 10, if not less. It is good to learn a technique or employ a writing style. But to use nothing but overly and non-vital description as the sole tool with which the story is conveyed is not good. I reached chapter 24 but I have read at most 5 chapters worth of words, skimming through the rest as it is just paragraphs upon paragraphs of "boot licking" descriptions of the Mc, repeated (rather spammed) facts about the Mc, unveiled lore points that constantly break the story pov by revealing random pieces of information from places unrelated to the current scene and its pov, to other things. I am not judging, simply giving a feedback review in hopes of helping the author. The story has great potential with the world building and lore, one I'd put on the level of great novels of similar genres. I hope it does not get ruined by the persistent, and honestly annoying, filler-type descriptive writing. How much plot is advanced in a chapter? How much a scene is moved forward in a chapter? And how much is it just flavor text filler? These are for the author to consider. Your author identity matters not to me. I read your story. I liked your story and am giving it a review in hopes of highlighting the points mentioned. Thus my overall rating is a changeable 5.5/10. Not quite average, but half a step into good. Which means you are already half a step there!!! Good job. Good luck.
The first chapter felt kinda cringe. I mean to say that I felt like I was reading a monologue instead of a dialogue. Especially with how the Mc was talking like some highschooler reading his speech to everyone at graduation in a hollywood musical. I think the main reason is that the repetitive emphasis on his comrades (friends, brothers, students, etc.) without mentioning anything about them but some single-word speeches from them. In conclusion, first chapters are hardest to write in any story. I think the dialogue needs rewriting. Although I wasn't hooked, I'm not one to judge by the first chapter only. Especially for novels.