Review Detail of Heretoc in A Chaotic World

Another thing, calling him a frog at the bottom of a well. Have you guys showed him the ocean to even call him that? All his life he has been taught that Ivory City is the only bastion of humanity. And everyone believes it. So of course he will consider it as his whole world. For all we know, the city could actually be the last bastion of humanity as author as of chapter 15 had yet to tell us about it. His dual cultivation? He only said that from his limited experience. Plus if he didn't have that pond he would died as the two energies fought against each other. It was a freak accident. And who knows if the lake had something special, or his body is special or the energies will only merge if it's between 11 pm to 12 am.

Talking about complains and criticism. As of Ch 15 I have yet to see him demanding any money or forcing you to pay. It's a free work. If he would have putup a pay wall or SS wall, then I can understand your complains. He would then be considered a professional writer since he writes for money. But this is probably just his hobby or something for fun. And truthfully way better than most xianxias. No engagements, pure yin body, step sister in love, maid with special background, or some special ring found at a flee market.

did he hire you with money? I've read the comments. Some of them were mean, but most of them were valid criticism. And what's it to you if someone else critics a novel? Why are you butthurt? If i see some stupid plothole, i am gonna point it out. if i see the mc being dumb, i am gonna point it out. no butthurt white knight will stop me.

"And everyone asking about his hate for humanity? It might have been exaggeration or something planned for the future. Why are you expecting something that was mentioned in the summary to happen with first few chapters? And then you complain that his hate was too sudden. Now author is trying for a slow build, and you idiots are questioning it every single chapter. The Synopsis is supposed to be for the whole story and not just the prologue as many people here seem to think." So what you are saying is, the synopsis basicaly spoiled something that will happen far into the future? Failure as a blurb.

"If you have problems, tell the author about it, instead of complaining and whining every chapter : What do you think went wrong, what could be corrected, what did you expect." Commenting on the chapters is a way to communicate with the author. do you even know what 'commenting' is ?

Commenting and Complaining. Two different things. In one you can point out what's wrong and what do you think or expect it should have been. Also called as constrictive criticism. Then their is complaining. Honestly what do you expect to understand from this : Author is fucking stupid. That's a dumb decision. ( Why is it a dumb decision?) This story is just getting ****tier. ( So...bye - bye? Just leave...) Why isn't he going to a forest. Stupid MC. ( Why should he go to the forest?) I am just listing these from top of my head. It's been quite a while since I touched that story and I can't exactly remember what they were all whining about. You can just go to the comments and check it out.

Are you slow? Because honestly what do you expect from a synopsis. Or are you confusing a prologue with synopsis? People were constantly questioning his ' hate for humanity.' 12 chapters in and you are asking for the midgame? Seriously? How many synopsis claim that MC will become some supreme god or what not. Do you constantly ask the author when is he going to become one?

Criticising story development that too 12 chapters in is not called valid criticism. The story has not even began to develop. If they are offering suggestions, it is great. But when you start questioning every single decision without even thinking for a bit...it's called being trolls. And as a reader, seeing stupid comments every chapter is annoying. MC is a 15 year old and most of them want him to act like a veteran ranger or hunter. This is not a xianxia where MC leaves to grow stronger in a forest and seems to know everything about survival. He has lived his whole life being trained as a martyr. You really expect him to know what to do next when his only dream, his only reason to live was destroyed in such a way? Anyway few of them were/are valid and constructive. Others are downright insulting. Payment? Seriously? You can't even support someone without being paid?

Criticising story development that too 12 chapters in is not called valid criticism. The story has not even began to develop. If they are offering suggestions, it is great. But when you start questioning every single decision without even thinking for a bit...it's called being trolls. And as a reader, seeing stupid comments every chapter is annoying. MC is a 15 year old and most of them want him to act like a veteran ranger or hunter. This is not a xianxia where MC leaves to grow stronger in a forest and seems to know everything about survival. He has lived his whole life being trained as a martyr. You really expect him to know what to do next when his only dream, his only reason to live was destroyed in such a way? Anyway few of them were/are valid and constructive. Others are downright insulting. Payment? Seriously? You can't even support someone without being paid?

And btw do point out the 'stupid' plotholes.

Completely absolutely valid. It is encouraged to critique a novel based on earlier chapters. In fact, 12 chapters is too many. 5-6 is the standard one. if a novel has 2k words on average per chapter than 6 chapters is already 50-60 pages in published books. 12 is like 100+ pages. 50 pages in is a pretty good spot to critique the fringing hell out of a novel.

True, but here we need to look at it from a different angle. If it was a normal novel or novella, commenting on it near 50-60 pages is okay. Not encouraged but okay. As 50-60 pages is easily above 15% of the whole average novel's content. But for a light novel, it might barely cross a percent. For example, you can't criticise Song of Ice and Fire after just reading 50-60 pages. 50-60 pages and the world was barely built, the story's true purpose was yet to be shown and what not. Coming back to this story. My major reason for this comment was reading complaints every time you end a chapter. It is okay if you are reading 1-2 chapters, but after 5 chapters it becomes annoying. Always the same group of people with the same complain. Now about this story, light novels are written differently from your normal novels. The story is more spread out. If you read the story, author was trying to set everything up without giving away spoilers or future development. We knew what the MC knew. Nothing more. MC acted a bit stupid, but he is a kid. Why did people started expecting him to act like some veteran hunter or ranger. In later chapters it is not shown directly but it is easy to assume that these guardians were barely trained or taught, because they were just supposed to be sacrifices. So in all honesty, the kid knew nothing. With demons roaming outside it was logical to enter the city. Here I agree, that he could have done it in a better way. Plus the mistakes he did later when hiding. But all in all, it just felt natural. He was going ahead as he planned, no long drawn future plan or something. He just wanted revenge. Even here we can see why he would want revenge. Basically his whole life was a big lie. Just image the existential crisis you woul go through if someone revealed that your country is nothing but say, a breeding farm for salves which are used to satisfy neighbouring countries from attacking....or something like that. Mistakes were made. But barely few people pointed it out. I even asked author to keep reading the comments as some of them were really good. But others are just mean. A major reason many good authors drop the story is because of this. I have seen many stories on RRL and fanfic dropped because people were insulting in the comments section. Many assume that it is a privilege for the author that we are reading his story. But unless author asks payment it is not privilege but basically charity. And sorry for the rant. P.S : If he was contracted like CN authors on Webnovel you could have insulted him for all his worth ( although I don't encourage doing it ) because we expect quality product for what we are paying. But here it was free and instead of constructive criticism or even suggestions, most of them were orders(?), Insults etc.

I get that some people post irritating comments(I just ignore them), but how hard is it to not read the comments? Is your purpose to read the novel or read upsetting comments? Trust me, I know exactly how frustrating it is, but you should know that you’re doing exactly what they’re doing. Complaining about what somebody wrote instead of just STOP READING whatever it is he/she wrote... And yes I agree, there is a difference between commenting and complaining.

Lol. If it was so simple everyone would be doing it. I love going through the comments. The comments are usually insightful, funny, or just correcting the author. Many times the comments point out things that you have missed, don't know or might be connected to something else. Like that 'Explosion' chant from Megumin...I didn't knew what it was until I found it in comments. Other times you can see a whole debate going on in comments sections which most of the time is more entertaining than the chapter. You also have people offering hypothesis or trying to predict the plot. All in all, it's hard to NOT read the comments. Apart from that, when you swipe up to change chapters, you are still able to read the top three comments. I am not sure about now, but during the early days, most of the top three comments were criticism. It was mainly because of this I was annoyed. I remember when I was a daily visitor of FF ,AOE, and RR, many authors dropped their stories because of heavy negative criticism, insults and even death threats ( yes, death threats). And it was not like their stories were bad. Many stories still feature in top rankings with most likes and follows. But the authors would simply leave because of how harsh the people were and are. I have personally seen authors breakdown because of heavy insults and criticisms, just because the story was not going how that particular reader wanted. In extreme cases even accounts have been hacked and the authors stalked in real life. Yeah, it's taking to the extreme and it's hard to say if it will happen here. So, seeing people whine, complain and insult the author just pisses me off. If the author was charging money, I might have not said anything. But the chapters were free. And complaining despite the free stuff?

People can be ungrateful and unreasonable, especially online. I get it, common sense. Is it your first day on the internet? If it’s not then you should clearly know how useless your post is at dissuading such people. It might even have the opposite effect and provoke them to go harder at it. After all, it’s not like you politely asked them to stop being rude. You got quite heated in the latter part... I mean even with somebody apparently grateful and reasonable like you refused my constructive criticism and well-intended advice. How do you think they’d react? I don’t often comment, but I felt the need to when I saw yours because I feel you. I am not looking for a fight or trying to change your opinion. Everybody have the right of speech and their opinions, no matter how unbearable it is for other people. I can see my efforts are not needed, so goodbye. Have a pleasant day. P.S. you really don’t seem like an unreasonable person, so please don’t stoop to the level of people you despise:)

Thanks. And I understand. That's why I stopped replying. The only reason I replied to your comment was due to the fact that it was a reasonable question and observation. Not some guy looking for a fight. 😅

Well about 10 chapters is only 1% of a series and i don’t think anyone knows anything at that point so the Longer a series is the deeper you go to understand what it is capable of or you take things at face view and say it’s crap before getting to know it better

so what you are saying is, if i went to a restaurant and ordered a pizza, but the pizza was made of ****, i have to eat through the WHOOOOOLE thing, or atleast half of it, before I could post a negative review about it. No, just sniffing it or a single glance is enough.

Well if it’s that bad then do what you want but for a book looking at it’s cover will do you no good

Not really. I agree that 10 chapters might be only 1 percent, but those 10 chapters are probably the most important as you introduce MC, set the world background, have his cheat come in, MC's aspirations, etc. By the first 10 or even 7, you will know if this is your cup of tea as you'll be able to make out the direction in which the author and hence the novel is going. Also, especially for original novels, you'll be able to know if it's to your liking or not really fast.