Interesting premise ruined by the worst of cliches. Cliches by themselves aren't intrinsically bad, but how authors handle them makes all the difference. In this story, it goes without saying...the author handled the cliches extremely poorly. The author uses 'family tragedy' cliche (mother is murdered) in order to develop the MC's character growth. Probably to add some depth to the MC, whilst providing the MC with motivation to grow. Which is all good. However instead of slowly transforming the MC into a mature, strong protagonist the author decides to create a second-personality. This second-personality is basically the cool version of MC, whilst the base version of the MC remains weak. Not just weak in strength, but weak in mentality as well. A sad, unwelcome, development.
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