Man I really tried to like this novel, I read 20 chapters of this a few months ago and barely reread till chapter 50 and I just can’t. I feel like this is blacksmith type of novel, nothing to do with a prince. Chapters are nice and long but the story progresses so slow, which I think is something terrbile for kingdom building novels unless you want 1000 chapters. Like you aren’t going to build an empire at this pace. Not to mention I barely know anything about what he’s supposed to be ruling over. I don’t know the population or anything that comes to building a kingdom. Unless he’s ambitious at a young age, why would you spend all this time when he’s doing nothing. You can just time-skip to when he’s 16 and have points and when he reminisces about when he does a certain something. How he met Tia or whatever. Then again, I really only like kingdom building novels so when you have that tag, I except kingdom building at least somewhere near chap 15 - 20. I’m near 50, nothings happening and he’s still a child.
PhantomMedjay
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LIKEit's not so much slow as it is excruciatingly detailed. when the Kingdom stuff comes up we'll see a normal chapter of development. but between those chapters every character gets exhaustively detailed. Sorta gives the feeling of a sitcom where day to day Acton's are followed this is another novel that has a four year old doing blacksmithing, learning swordfighting and running a community. the premise is golden, but it's difficult to follow after the initial set-up