Two chapters in and I'm already hesitant to continue reading the novel. This is for one main reason, which is the main character's 'desire' to grow stronger; wanting to go home. Why does this desire make me want to drop a novel, especially a novel finally set on Middle Earth with some WoW aspects? Because it's a terrible motivation to have for an isekai novel and makes me have my own 'expectations' on what will happen. Take the novel I read before called 'I am Krillin!" The main character there has, throughout the novel, developed his own kind of kingdom, become one of the strongest if not the strongest in the universe, has a harem, has a respected status, has friends, and has lived for a few hundred thousand years so he probably has kids and grandkids and descendants. All of this he grew and developed with his own hands. Then, at the end, God suddenly breaks the universe, pats Krillin on the head for doing a good job, then throws him back to his original life so he can take care of his grandparents and then die a normal person. That is terrible! God just destroyed his hard work, his family, and his friends then shoved him back to Earth to live normally. This expectation is what I expect from novels now where the main character's goal is to 'go home'. What will Arthas do? From the tags and from the story used as the background he will probably build his own kingdom between the time period of the Hobbit and LotR. Probably build alliances, meet various characters, maybe have a love interest or three. Then he'll grow strong or is strong already and fight the forces of evil, save his own people, leave his name in the annals of history as a good person. Or maybe the complete opposite and devastate the world as the Lich King and break history. Either path leads to... what? Him going home? With the first path he'll dump everything he developed and grew to love all just to go home to boring life on Earth? You expect readers to like this!? And if it's the second path then we're to accept he became a demon and accept he is rewarded for all the pain and destruction he caused so he can go home and laze around on the couch? Probably the most terrible way to start a story is have a main character with a fetish for life on Earth. Earth is terrible unless you're born in the top 0.00001%. Taxes, stress, marriage, divorce, old age, money, rebellious children if you even have them. From what is already said in the first two chapters, he only has a mother and brother at home. I don't see why he has to go back unless both are crippled in which case he should already have contingencies in place should he himself be hurt or missing or killed. That's just life. So yea, The rating is weird as **** since I want a 'satisfaction' aspect so I can give a one star there, but meh.
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LIKEOf course I only read 2 chapters. Why would anyone push themselves to read the entire thing? New novels usually try hard to make the first few chapters into something that will attract new readers. Although people say 'Don't judge a book by its cover', that is literally all anyone does when choosing things. If you read 200 chapters of a novel and say it sucks and someone tells you to read all 4800 chapters available before talking, what would you do? I'm not gonna read the rest just because someone else gave a 'disdainful chuckle' and said 'the rest is completely different'. That's just stupid.
Oh, I will. I saw that one pinned negative review and thought I'd give something better than a 'this sucks' but I see you're not as 'accepting' as you said. What did you ask the reviewer for? Saying you want to know the reason for the low score all for "Asking purely for constructive criticism" is probably complete bull. Just want to know so you can curse them for the review. What disdainful chuckle? I said what was on my mind and that was the start of the novel was a rather bad cliche that solidified my expectations on an ending that would be bad based on my previous reading experiences. Did I sound sarcastic anywhere? Whatever. I'll do what you won't do and follow the advice of others and just not read. Go ahead and continue cursing me or whatever.
