Review Detail of Cruddy_Drummer in The Oracle Paths

i will just say the biggest flaw so far has been the pacing for me that i am quitting here. the problem is that the novels "starts" multiple times. the beginning of the novel, the huge planet, the ordeal. the ideas are very solid but the pacing is kind of fucked by the ideas. it almots feels like i am reading the novel again even though i have read it to triple digit chapters. the mc is conveniently powered down. the idea is to take an ordinary mc and show him being ordinary but the author can't seem to decide what between ordinary and protagonist. the mc is shown to be not ordinary, he can kill multiple strong enemies when actual ordinary people struggle against one weak enemy. his stats are far from ordinary. so there's a big contradiction going on and that kind of js frustrating. trying is actually trying to make him be below average with stats and skills already shown to be way above average. he's writing for personal convenience instead of "realism". i will say the novel overall is pretty unique but the grasp it has on you becomes looser as the chapters progress, exactly opposite of what you want it to be happening. you know when in other novels mc goes to another dimension to start at fucking 0 feels bad. it serves as a pause for the author to calm the power creep and control the flow but it also completely fucks up the momentum. the momentum is repeatedly lost in the first 100 or so chapters. the author sows shiny gold to the reader but then tries to convince the reader that the shiny gold was actually ugly shit through telling. unique idea, too grandoise though which works against it.