Translation quality: excellent. Almost flawless, actually. Not much to say here. Update stability: excellent and stable. Now that the pluses have been mentioned, it’s time for the negatives. Story development: garbage. Sheer, utter garbage. This is your stereotypical face-slapping wish fulfillment schlock, except faces never get slapped and wishes never get fulfilled as of chapter 95, where I’m writing this review. So you get all of the annoying buildup with none of the satisfying release. Character design: zero effort. None of the characters have any real distinguishing features or thought put into them; they’re all cardboard cutouts of character tropes and archetypes that I’ve seen done better elsewhere. Their motivations are all completely lacking, and I can’t help but wonder if any of them have a brain cell rattling around in the portable vacuums that rest atop their shoulders. World background: atrocious. The story so far has been set in a reality show that follows a number of couples for an entire year, live-streaming everything they do except sleep. None of it is realistic and, while I do think the concept is novel, the execution is lacking to the point where it should be burned at the stake for heresy and crimes against literature. Overall: while the updates are frequent and consistent and the translation quality is excellent, this novel has nothing else going for it in the actual categories that matter. So don’t be fooled by the 2.4-star review score this has gotten from this review, as those two categories skew that rating to a frankly untenable degree. I regret the time I spent reading this and will not be coming back to it.
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LIKEThis was recommended to me on limited free, so I decided to give it another chance. I was even more disappointed, because the plot became incoherent and the author introduced characters like the MC already knew them, leaving me absolutely confused. This wasn’t worth revisiting, even as a free read.
