Review Detail of CriticalReader in Monarch of Darkness, Arsene
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Like majority of novels on this site, it starts out well only to become unbearable, cringy and embarrassing to read. Decent quality of writing, with little errors but poor sentence structure... 3 stars Updates are reliable... 3 stars Story development involves almost every single character trying to kill mc with no reason and mc fighting them in retaliation... so plot is nonexistent and in its place is the typical angst and drama associated with silly revenge novels... 1 star because I can't give zero Character design amounts to mc, fmc and everyone else... all characters beside mc and fmc have changes in behavior for plot convenience (eg: his parents who are rebellious turn meek and cowardly so that mc's enemies can attack him, all so that mc can have his edgy revenge arcs... yes they are only revenge arcs so far)... I give this 1 star otherwise i would give it zero Worldbuilding involves mentioning of location names... no place is described hence impossible to imagine... 2 stars
Monarch of Darkness, Arsene
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the author really need to watch the video on channel 'terrible writing advice' there to know most pitfall he end up used in each topic (Bonus: in some older video there are link in video description to the 'honest advice' post version for legit good tips on that topic there if you want more tips after watch the video. Then the one about 'honest though-cliche'' because after all cliche' is just a tool, it not bad or good, it depend on how author use it)
I agree with most of the things you said. I will say though that the story gets good when they go to Midgard which is around chapter 80-100. That is definitely when the story picks up. But I do agree that some parks at the beginning of the story were ether annoying, stupid, or unbearable mainly when he had to cook for Yura and was having to spend a lot of time with Yura and her friends. But after that I would say that the wait was worth it and the story gets better after Yuras friends are killed. But I do understand if you drop a story because you can’t read/wait for 80-100 chapter for story to pickup the pace.
