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Review Detail of Magnus_Pajulahti in The Zombie Knight Saga

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Some observations/thoughts I had that you might find more or less important: The title is misleading, Zombie in it seems to mean an immortal superpowered person who is paired up with one of many reapers(who also were originally humans). The initial premise of finding regular people who are going to die some time in the future, figuring out some way to prevent their death and then dealing with consequences of whatever weird stuff the MC had to do in order to do that is quickly abandoned in favour of battles between the good and evil superpowered people. Personality and interactions of the MC are really nice and interesting and his backstory/starting situation was something I appreciated even if I'm not sure what I think of it. Most action scenes are boring and make my eyes glaze over. MC has a love interest but it's clearly not the focus of the story, also she ends up being sort of sterile so that the author can say people should adopt more. The world is sexist and most characters love to point out how that sucks without doing anything about it. Racism seems to be an issue that rarely gets brought up but the wildly different world history makes it feel somewhat fresh and interesting(ie. warlike slave using nation that conquered large parts of the world before breaking up was presumably mostly black) One point of different but similar world seems to be to paint thing more black and white than they'd be if modern earth was the setting. Many characters are really nice and interesting but not all of them making some PoV chapters feel like a slog. MC's abilities and powers grow pretty nicely. Sad event happens and is nice but... Spoiler: Spoiler There's a tragic and ****ed up situation that happens at some point and it's really nice overall with the consequences of it for the MC being important but the issue is that it did a great job at making me invested in seeing the antagonist get defeated but then the antagonist actually dies right away and we're left with only vague bad guys that the MC doesn't really have personal issues with. Some situations make me think that the author subscribes to the idea that subversion of expectations is always great even when that makes a more boring story(ie. at one point it seemed clear that a new "party member" was being introduced but then they died making me go "oh, I didn't expect that and I suppose all that stuff did serve some minor purpose but I'm still disappointed."). Overall I'd say it's not bad but as I kept reading it and wondering if I really want to read it I eventually decided that no, there isn't really anything that I'm looking forward to happening and even if there are some interesting bits they'll be surrounded by too many boring fight scenes or such.

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The Zombie Knight Saga

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